Yap Summit Community Sector - Yap State Government

YAP STATE GOVERNMENT
Population Annual Growth rate (%)
1980 1989 1994 2000 2010 1980-
1989-
1994-
2000-
1989
1994
00
2010
Yap 8,100 10,365 11,178 11,241 11,376 2.7 1.5 0.1 0.1
FSM 73,159 95,740 105,506 107,008 102,624 3.0 1.9 0.3 -0.4
Figure 21 Population Growth Rate 1980-2010
Source: U.S. Dept. of Interior (2009); FSM SBOC (2011)
Unemployment (2010) Total Percent of potential labor force
Yap 177 2%
FSM 3,485 5%
Figure 22 Unemployment Rate 2010
Source: Yap State Census 2010
Key issues:
• To understand main population and migration trends.
• To address population trends and economic consequences in the working population versus dependent
population ratio (e.g. age, subsistence activities, etc.).
• To address gender in economic terms.
• “The FSM is a rare case of an economy where total employment in 2008 is lower than it was in 1995
while population has increased”. Source: U.S. Department of Interior: Report to Congress on the First 5years
Review of the Compact of free Association with the Federated States of Micronesia (2010), pp.17.
• "As some critics of American policies in the Pacific point out, as long the United States provides a
guaranteed source of income as well as a place to migrate to the FSM's economy does not have to
become any more dynamic than it already is”. Source: U.S. Department of Interior: Report to Congress on the
First 5years Review of the Compact of free Association with the Federated States of Micronesia (2010), pp.16.
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