Vanuatu VU
East Asia & Pacific · Lower middle income · capital Port-Vila
- Population
- 335,169
- 2025
- GDP
- $1.4 billion
- 2025
- Life expectancy
- 71.7 y
- 2024
In the live services
| corpus | rows for this country |
|---|---|
| legal | 1 |
Geospatial extent
Bounding box 166.52°–169.90° E, -20.25°–-13.06° N · centroid -16.66, 168.21 · source natural-earth-1:110m
Map © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Extent only; no cadastre or address data.
Top research institutions
OpenAlex works counts; not a quality ranking.
Legal system
mixed system of English common law, French law, and customary law
CIA World Factbook (factbook.json)
Measured indicators
| indicator | value | year | source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural land (% of land) | 13.3 | 2024 | World Bank |
| air_freight | 30.3 | 2023 | World Bank IS.AIR.GOOD.MT.K1 |
| Air passengers carried | 359,290.0 | 2023 | World Bank |
| airline_routes_departures | 96.0 | 2026 | OpenFlights route database |
| airports_openflights | 29.0 | 2026 | OpenFlights airport database |
| airports_total | 8,307.0 | 2023 | World Bank IS.AIR.DPRT |
| Arms imports (SIPRI TIV) | 7,000,000.0 | 2021 | World Bank |
| arrivals | 82,400.0 | 2020 | World Bank ST.INT.ARVL |
| atm_per_100k | 58.9 | 2021 | World Bank FB.ATM.TOTL.P5 |
| bachelors_attainment_pct | 3.3 | 2023 | World Bank SE.TER.CUAT.BA.ZS |
| bank_branches_p5 | 22.0 | 2021 | World Bank FB.CBK.BRCH.P5 |
| bank_capital_ratio_pct | 10.3 | 2017 | World Bank FB.BNK.CAPA.ZS |
| bank_capital_to_assets_pct | 10.3 | 2017 | World Bank FB.BNK.CAPA.ZS |
| basic_water_pct | 87.1 | 2024 | World Bank |
| B-READY business entry (0-100) | 67.6 | 2025 | World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset |
| B-READY business insolvency (0-100) | 35.6 | 2025 | World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset |
| B-READY business location (0-100) | 46.9 | 2025 | World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset |
| B-READY dispute resolution (0-100) | 41.6 | 2025 | World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset |
| B-READY financial services (0-100) | 57.0 | 2025 | World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset |
| B-READY international trade (0-100) | 38.1 | 2025 | World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset |
| B-READY labour (0-100) | 58.3 | 2025 | World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset |
| B-READY market competition (0-100) | 25.3 | 2025 | World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset |
| B-READY Pillar 3 operational efficiency (0-100) | 51.4 | 2025 | World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset |
| B-READY Pillar 2 public services (0-100) | 33.6 | 2025 | World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset |
| B-READY Pillar 1 regulatory framework (0-100) | 55.9 | 2025 | World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset |
| B-READY taxation (0-100) | 46.5 | 2025 | World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset |
| B-READY utility services (0-100) | 52.5 | 2025 | World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset |
| broad_money_growth | 9.6 | 2024 | World Bank FM.LBL.BMNY.ZG |
| broad_money_pct | 82.9 | 2024 | World Bank FM.LBL.BMNY.GD.ZS |
| broad_money_pct_gdp | 82.9 | 2024 | World Bank FM.LBL.BMNY.GD.ZS |
| budget_debt_pct_gdp | 67.9 | 2023 | World Bank |
| budget_expense_pct_gdp | 26.6 | 2023 | World Bank |
| central_gov_debt_pct_gdp | 67.9 | 2023 | World Bank GC.DOD.TOTL.GD.ZS |
| cereal_tonnes | 985.4 | 2024 | World Bank AG.PRD.CREL.MT |
| che_gdp_pct | 4.1 | 2023 | WHO Global Health Observatory GHED_CHEGDP_SHA2011 |
| che_per_capita_usd | 143.4 | 2023 | WHO Global Health Observatory GHED_CHE_pc_US_SHA2011 |
| claims_on_central_gov | -4.8 | 2024 | World Bank FS.AST.CGOV.GD.ZS |
| clean_fuels_cooking | 20.0 | 2024 | World Bank EG.CFT.ACCS.ZS |
| Clinical trials involving this country (ClinicalTrials.gov) | 2.0 | 2026 | ClinicalTrials.gov v2 (country from trial locations) |
| container_port_traffic | 77,435.9 | 2019 | World Bank IS.SHP.GOOD.TU |
| container_traffic_teu | 7.4 | 2021 | World Bank IS.SHP.GCNW.XQ |
| cpi | 152.5 | 2025 | World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL |
| CPIA business-regulatory rating (1-6, World Bank) | 3.0 | 2025 | World Bank IQ.CPA.BREG.XQ |
| CPIA financial-sector rating (1-6) | 3.5 | 2025 | World Bank IQ.CPA.FINQ.XQ |
| CPIA public-sector management rating (1-6) | 3.1 | 2025 | World Bank IQ.CPA.PUBS.XQ |
| CPIA trade rating (1-6) | 4.0 | 2025 | World Bank IQ.CPA.TRAD.XQ |
| crop_production_idx | 153.1 | 2024 | World Bank AG.PRD.CROP.XD |
| cts_homicide_count | 1.0 | 2020 | UNODC Crime Trends Survey (CTS) member-state responses, data.unodc.org bulk download (keyless) |
| cts_homicide_rate | 0.3 | 2020 | UNODC Crime Trends Survey (CTS) member-state responses, data.unodc.org bulk download (keyless) |
| Ease of doing business rank (archived DB2020) | 107.0 | 2020 | World Bank Doing Business archive (DB2020 revised, project discontinued 2021) |
| Ease of doing business score (archived DB2020) | 61.1 | 2020 | World Bank Doing Business archive (DB2020 revised, project discontinued 2021) |
| dentists_per_10k | 14.6 | 2019 | WHO Global Health Observatory HWF_0006 |
| deposit_rate | 0.3 | 2025 | World Bank FR.INR.DPST |
| deposit_rate_pct | 0.3 | 2025 | World Bank FR.INR.DPST |
| Emigrants living abroad (UN DESA 2020) | 3,816.0 | 2020 | UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2020 (bulk xlsx) |
| International migrant stock (UN DESA 2020) | 1,638.0 | 2020 | UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2020 (bulk xlsx) |
| domestic_credit_private_pct | 48.5 | 2024 | World Bank FS.AST.PRVT.GD.ZS |
| dpt_immun_pct | 71.0 | 2024 | World Bank SH.IMM.IDPT |
| edu_spend_per_student_primary | 13.5 | 2015 | World Bank SE.XPD.PRIM.PC.ZS |
| edu_spend_per_student_secondary | 21.0 | 2015 | World Bank SE.XPD.SECO.PC.ZS |
| education_spend_pct_gdp | 7.6 | 2024 | World Bank World Development Indicators (2026) |
| education_spend_secondary | 32.9 | 2017 | World Bank SE.XPD.SECO.ZS |
| Access to electricity (%) | 65.5 | 2024 | World Bank |
| electricity_access_rural | 58.5 | 2024 | World Bank EG.ELC.ACCS.RU.ZS |
| electricity_access_urban | 90.1 | 2024 | World Bank EG.ELC.ACCS.UR.ZS |
| electricity_capacity_gw | 0.0 | 2023 | Ember yearly electricity data (2026) |
| electricity_emissions_mtco2e | 0.0 | 2023 | Ember yearly electricity data (2026) |
| electricity_generation_clean_twh | 0.0 | 2023 | Ember yearly electricity data (2026) |
| electricity_generation_demand_twh | 0.1 | 2023 | Ember yearly electricity data (2026) |
| electricity_generation_fossil_twh | 0.1 | 2023 | Ember yearly electricity data (2026) |
| electricity_generation_hydro,_bioenergy_and_other_renewables_twh | 0.0 | 2023 | Ember yearly electricity data (2026) |
| electricity_generation_renewables_twh | 0.0 | 2023 | Ember yearly electricity data (2026) |
| electricity_generation_twh | 0.1 | 2023 | Ember yearly electricity data (2026) |
| electricity_generation_wind_and_solar_twh | 0.0 | 2023 | Ember yearly electricity data (2026) |
| electricity_share_bioenergy_pct | 0.0 | 2023 | Ember yearly electricity data (2026) |
| electricity_share_coal_pct | 0.0 | 2023 | Ember yearly electricity data (2026) |
| electricity_share_gas_pct | 0.0 | 2023 | Ember yearly electricity data (2026) |
| electricity_share_hydro_pct | 12.5 | 2023 | Ember yearly electricity data (2026) |
| electricity_share_net_imports_pct | 0.0 | 2023 | Ember yearly electricity data (2026) |
| electricity_share_nuclear_pct | 0.0 | 2023 | Ember yearly electricity data (2026) |
| showing 80 of 48,996 measured series — full list: CSV · JSON | |||
Language
English canonical body. 249 name labels held (Wikidata). Missing languages are absent, not machine-translated.
- ab Вануату
- ace Vanuatu
- aeb-arab ڥانواتو
- af Vanuatu
- am ቫኑአቱ
- ami Vanuatu
- an Vanuatu
- ang Fanuatīega
- anp वनुआटु
- ar فانواتو
- ary ڤانواتو
- arz فانواتو
- ast Vanuatu
- avk Vanuatua
- az Vanuatu
- azb وانواتو
- ba Вануату
- ban Vanuatu
- bcl Banuatu
- be Вануату
- be-tarask Вануату
- bew Wanuatu
- bg Вануату
- bho वानूआतू
- bi Vanuatu
- bjn Vanuatu
- bn ভানুয়াতু
- bo ཝ་ནུའ་ཏུ།
- bpy ভানুয়াতু
- br Vanuatu
- bs Vanuatu
- bxr Вануату
- ca Vanuatu
- cbk-zam Vanuatu
- cdo Vanuatu
- ce Вануату
- ceb Vanuatu
- chr ᏩᏂᎤᏩᏚ
- chy Vanuatu
- ckb ڤانواتوو
- co Vanatu
- crh Vanuatu
- crh-latn Vanuatu
- cs Vanuatu
- cy Vanuatu
- da Vanuatu
- dag Republic of Vanuatu
- de Vanuatu
- de-ch Vanuatu
- diq Vanuatu
- dsb Vanuatu
- dty भानुआटु
- dv ވަނުއާޓޫ
- dz ཝཱ་ནའུ་ཊུ།
- el Βανουάτου
- en Vanuatu
- en-ca Vanuatu
- en-gb Vanuatu
- eo Vanuatuo
- es Vanuatu
- et Vanuatu
- eu Vanuatu
- ext Vanuatu
- fa وانواتو
- ff Fanuwatu
- fi Vanuatu
- fj Vanuatu
- fo Vanuatu
- fr Vanuatu
- frp Vanuatu
- frr Wanuaatuu
- fy Fanuatû
- ga Vanuatú
- gag Vanuatu
- gcr Vanuatu
- gd Bhanuatu
- gl Vanuatu
- glk وانۊآتۊ
- gn Vanuátu
- gom वनुआटु
- gpe Vanuatu
- gsw Vanuatu
- gu વાનાતુ
- gv Vanuatu
- ha Vanuatu
- hak Vanuatu
- he ונואטו
- hi वानूआटू
- hif Vanuatu
- hr Vanuatu
- hsb Vanuatu
- ht Vanwatou
- hu Vanuatu
- hy Վանուատու
- hyw Վանուաթու
- ia Vanuatu
- iba Vanuatu
- id Vanuatu
- ie Vanuatu
- ig Vanuatu
- ilo Vanuatu
- io Vanuatu
- is Vanúatú
- it Vanuatu
- iu ᕙᓄᐊᑐ
- ja バヌアツ
- jam Vanuatu
- jv Vanuatu
- ka ვანუატუ
- kaa Vanuatu
- kk Вануату
- km វ៉ានូអាទូ
- kn ವನುವಾಟು
- ko 바누아투
- krc Вануату
- ku Vanûatû
- kw Vanuatu
- ky Вануату
- la Vanuatu
- lad Vanuatu
- lb Vanuatu
- lfn Vanuatu
- li Vanuatu
- lij Vanuatu
- lld Vanuatu
- lmo Vanuatu
- lo ວານູອາຕູ
- lt Vanuatu
- lv Vanuatu
- lzh 萬那杜
- mg Vanoato
- mhr Вануату
- mi Whenuatū
- min Vanuatu
- mk Вануату
- ml വാനുവാടു
- mn Вануату
- mni ꯚꯥꯅꯨꯑꯥꯇꯨ
- mr व्हानुआतू
- mrj Вануату
- ms Vanuatu
- mt Vanuatu
- my ဗနွားတူနိုင်ငံ
- mzn وانواتو
- na Banuatu
- nah Vanuatu
- nan Vanuatu
- nb Vanuatu
- nds Vanuatu
- ne भानुअटु
- new भानुआटु
- nl Vanuatu
- nn Vanuatu
- nov Vanuatu
- nv Adeeshzhahnii Bikéyah
- oc Vanuatu
- olo Vanuatu
- or ଭାନୁଆଟୁ
- os Вануату
- pa ਵਨੁਆਤੂ
- pam Vanuatu
- pap Vanuatu
- pcm Vanuatu
- pi वनुवाटु
- pih Wanwaatuu
- pl Vanuatu
- pms Vanuatu
- pnb وینوآتو
- ps وانواتو
- pt Vanuatu
- pt-br Vanuatu
- qu Wanwatu
- rm Vanuatu
- ro Vanuatu
- ru Вануату
- rue Вануату
- rw Vanuwatu
- sa वनुवाटु
- sah Вануату
- sc Vanuatu
- scn Vanuatu
- sco Vanuatu
- sd وانوآتو
- se Vanuatu
- sgs Vanuatu
- sh Vanuatu
- shn မိူင်းဝႅၼ်ႇၼူးဝႃႇထူႇ
- si වනුවාටු
- sk Vanuatu
- sl Vanuatu
- sm Vanuatu
- smn Vanuatu
- sms Vanuatu
- sn Vanuatu
- so Fanwatu
- sq Vanuatu
- sr Вануату
- srn Vanuatu
- su Vanuatu
- sv Vanuatu
- sw Vanuatu
- szl Vanuatu
- szy Vanuatu
- ta வனுவாட்டு
- tay Vanuatu
- te వానువాటు
- tg Вануату
- th ประเทศวานูวาตู
- tk Wanuatu
- tl Vanuatu
- to Vanuatu
- tok ma Wanuwatu
- tpi Vanuatu
- tr Vanuatu
- ts Vanuatu
- tt Вануату
- tum Vanuatu
- tw Vanuatu
- ty Vanuatu
- tyv Вануату
- udm Вануату
- ug ۋانۇئاتۇ
- uk Вануату
- ur وانواتو
- uz Vanuatu
- vec Vanuatu
- vep Vanuatu
- vi Vanuatu
- vo Vanuatuäns
- vro Vanuatu
- war Vanuatu
- wo Wanuatu
- wuu 瓦努阿图
- xal Вануһудин Орн
- xmf ვანუატუ
- yi וואנואטו
- yo Fanuatu
- yue 萬那杜
- za Vanuatu
- zea Vanuatu
- zh 萬那杜
- zh-cn 瓦努阿图
- zh-hans 瓦努阿图
- zh-hant 萬那杜
- zh-hk 瓦努阿圖
- zh-mo 瓦努阿圖
- zh-sg 瓦努阿图
- zh-tw 萬那杜
- zu i-Vanuatu
Lane coverage
| lane | status | what exists |
|---|---|---|
| patents · service | YELLOW · partial | patent application counts (residents + non-residents) from the World Bank/WIPO series; patent documents are not ingested source |
| legal · service | YELLOW · partial | 1 primary-law documents, 0 with full text mirrored (newest 2023); corpus covers this jurisdiction's official texts, not every instrument ever made source |
| alerts · service | GREEN · ingested | 0 alerts in current GDACS/USGS window (measured, not an all-clear). | 2026-10-29 audit: VERIFIED COMPLETE — full current GDACS (125) + USGS (284) window (409 alert rows) with per-record metadata. Kept green. source |
| defense · service | YELLOW · partial | 2026-10-29 audit: demoted green->yellow (SERIES_ONLY). 0 of 1 defense record corpus (0%); only SIPRI/World Bank series present. Missing: full UNROCA/SIPRI/DoD award records. source |
| space · service | YELLOW · partial | no orbital launch site in this country in the GCAT launch log (1942-2026) source |
| maps · service | GREEN · ingested | Natural Earth 1:10m boundary + centroid + bbox area computed (24.3 deg2); no cadastre, address data or navigation map. GADM L0 fallback: ok (gadm41_VUT_0.json). | 2026-10-29 audit: VERIFIED COMPLETE — Natural Earth 1:10m boundary + GADM L0 fallback for every mapped country; complete geodata record set. Kept green. source |
| passport · service | GLOBAL · service live | pass.go-v.org is live; per-country identity documents are NOT ingested source |
| research · service | GREEN · ingested | 91 scholarly works since 2021 with authoring institutions here (OpenAlex); a publication index, not a quality ranking source |
| economy · service | GREEN · ingested | GDP per capita, current US$ (World Bank); not a cost-of-living or inequality measure source |
| health · service | GREEN · ingested | life expectancy at birth, World Bank; not a health system performance rating source |
| education · service | YELLOW · partial | primary school enrolment (% gross), World Bank; tertiary data is shown when available source |
| energy · service | GREEN · ingested | access to electricity (% of population), World Bank source |
| water · service | YELLOW · partial | at least basic drinking water (% of population), World Bank/WHO; safely managed data shown when available source |
| connectivity · service | YELLOW · partial | fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people, World Bank/ITU; internet-user share shown when available source |
| crime | GREEN · ingested | stale data (2020) intentional homicides per 100,000 people (UNODC series via World Bank); recorded homicides only source |
| conflict | YELLOW · partial | 2026-10-29 audit: demoted green->yellow (SERIES_ONLY). 0 of 1 text corpus (0%); 1 numeric series/indicator(s) only. Missing: full UCDP/GDELT event corpus. source |
| business | YELLOW · partial | 2026-10-29 audit: demoted green->yellow (SERIES_ONLY). 0 of 1 text corpus (0%); 1 numeric series/indicator(s) only. Missing: full company/enterprise registry corpus. source |
| science | GREEN · ingested | OpenAlex institutions snapshot 2026-10: 1 institutions, works counted per country; CC0 1.0. source |
| prison | YELLOW · partial | 2026-10-29 audit: demoted green->yellow (SERIES_ONLY). 0 of 1 text corpus (0%); 1 numeric series/indicator(s) only. Missing: full World Prison Brief prison corpus. source |
| interpol | YELLOW · partial | 0 public Interpol Red Notices in the ingested snapshot list a national of this country (measured zero for this snapshot; not an absence of crime). source |
| arms | YELLOW · partial | stale data (2021) SIPRI arms-transfer trend indicator values (imports and exports) via the World Bank; TIV is a trend measure, not currency source |
| sanctions | GREEN · ingested | OFAC SDN 0 + UN consolidated 0 + EU 0 designation reference(s), snapshot 2026-10-26; counts are list references (text/code attribution), not convictions or proof of activity; 0 is a measured zero against these three ingested lists | 2026-10-29 audit: VERIFIED COMPLETE — full OFAC SDN (19,471), UN consolidated (1,001) and EU (11,154) designation lists with per-record metadata (snapshot 2026-10-26). Kept green. source |
| agriculture | GREEN · ingested | agricultural land (% of land area), World Bank/FAO source |
| food | YELLOW · partial | prevalence of undernourishment (%), World Bank/FAO; a modelled estimate, not a survey of every household source |
| labor | YELLOW · partial | unemployment (% of labour force), ILO modelled estimate via World Bank source |
| finance | YELLOW · partial | 2026-10-29 audit: demoted green->yellow (SERIES_ONLY). 0 of 1 text corpus (0%); 1 numeric series/indicator(s) only. Missing: full IMF/World Bank financial corpus. source |
| environment | GREEN · ingested | forest area (% of land area), World Bank/FAO source |
| trade | GREEN · ingested | trade (% of GDP), World Bank source |
| migration | YELLOW · partial | net migration (5-year estimate), World Bank/UN source |
| tourism | YELLOW · partial | stale data (2022) international tourist arrivals, World Bank/UNWTO source |
| housing | YELLOW · partial | urban population (% of total), World Bank; not a housing-cost or tenure measure source |
| transport | YELLOW · partial | air passengers carried, World Bank/ICAO; one mode only source |
| investment | YELLOW · partial | 2026-10-29 audit: demoted green->yellow (SERIES_ONLY). 0 of 1 text corpus (0%); 1 numeric series/indicator(s) only. Missing: full FDI/investment corpus. source |
| remittances | YELLOW · partial | stale data (2022) 2026-10-29 audit: demoted green->yellow (SERIES_ONLY). 0 of 1 text corpus (0%); 1 numeric series/indicator(s) only. Missing: full WB/IMF remittance corpus. source |
| health_finance | YELLOW · partial | stale data (2023) 2026-10-29 audit: demoted green->yellow (SERIES_ONLY). 0 of 1 text corpus (0%); 1 numeric series/indicator(s) only. Missing: full WHO GHED health-finance corpus. source |
| budget | YELLOW · partial | stale data (2023) 2026-10-29 audit: demoted green->yellow (SERIES_ONLY). 0 of 1 text corpus (0%); 1 numeric series/indicator(s) only. Missing: full national budget/tender corpus. source |
| treaty | YELLOW · partial | 2026-10-29 audit: demoted green->yellow (SERIES_ONLY). 0 of 1 text corpus (0%); 1 numeric series/indicator(s) only. Missing: full UNTC treaty-text corpus. source |
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Backlinks
Department pages with measured records for Vanuatu:
patents legal alerts defense space maps research economy health education energy water connectivity crime conflict business science prison interpol arms sanctions agriculture food labor finance environment trade migration tourism housing transport investment remittances health_finance budget treaty
patents recipes legal alerts defense space passport research
Cite this page
Vanuatu (VU). go-v.org estate, https://estate.116.202.234.183.nip.io/vu. Data: World Bank Open Data, OpenAlex, WIPO, Natural Earth, OpenStreetMap. Accessed 2026-11-08.