Tuvalu

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Population

Migration

2021: Changes in population over 4 years

Economy

GDP

2022: GDP estimate - $0.06 billion - the minimum in the world

ВВП countries of the world 2022 according to IMF estimates

History

2022: Plan to create your virtual copy

The Polynesian state of Tuvalu in the Pacific Ocean intends to create its own virtual copy in order to maintain sovereignty "in case of flooding" by the ocean, the country's foreign minister said at a UN conference on climate change. This became known on November 15, 2022.

As our land disappears, we have no choice but to become a virtual country. Our land, our ocean, our culture is the most valuable wealth of our people, and in order to protect it from damage, regardless of what becomes of the physical world, we will move it to the cloud[1]

1974-1975: British Colony of Tuvalu

In a 1974 referendum, the Polynesian population of the Ellis Islands voted to separate from the Melanesian Gilbert Islands (later Kiribati), and already in 1975 the archipelago became a separate British colony of Tuvalu.

1916: British colony of Gilbert and Ellis Islands

In 1916, the islands became part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellis Islands.

1892

In 1892, the archipelago became the British protectorate of Ellis Island.

1568: Discovery of the islands by Spaniard Alvaro Mendagna de Neuroy

The islands of Tuvalu were discovered by the Spanish navigator Alvaro Mendagna de Neira in 1568.