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2000 FSM Census of Chuuk StateChapter 6. MigrationTable 6.2: Birthplace of Chuuk Residents: 1994 and 2000NumberPercent1994 2000 1994 2000Birthplace Total Lagoon Outer Is.. Total Lagoon Outer Is. Total Lagoon Outer Is. Total Lagoon Outer Is.Total 53,319 41,662 11,657 53,595 40,465 13,130 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0Chuuk 52,347 40,756 11,591 53,093 39,986 13,107 98.2 97.8 99.4 99.1 98.8 99.8Lagoon 39,355 39,005 350 38,265 37,936 329 73.8 93.6 3.0 71.4 93.8 2.5Outer Islands 12,992 1,751 11,241 14,828 2,050 12,778 24.4 4.2 96.4 27.7 5.1 97.3Outside Chuuk 972 906 66 502 479 23 1.8 2.2 0.6 0.9 1.2 0.2Other FSM state 224 185 39 192 174 18 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.1USA 212 188 24 80 79 1 0.4 0.5 0.2 0.1 0.2 …Asia 489 488 1 51 51 - 0.9 1.2 … 0.1 0.1 -China and Taiwan 327 327 - - - - 0.6 0.8 - - - -Philippines 124 124 - 44 44 - 0.2 0.3 - 0.1 0.1 -Other Asia 38 37 1 7 7 - 0.1 0.1 … … … -Elsewhere 47 45 2 179 175 4 0.1 0.1 … 0.3 0.4 …Source: 1994 FSM Census, Table P17; 2000 FSM Census, Table P2-5.Note: "USA" includes Guam and CNMITable 6.3 shows lifetime interstate migration among the FSM states for 1994 and 2000. The number of Chuukmigrants traveling to the other FSM states was greater than the number coming in for both census years. For example,in 2000, 913 lifetime migrants to the three FSM States compared with only 192 migrants to Chuuk. On the other hand,in 1994 Chuuk lost 665 migrants to the other states, and gained only 224. The majority of the out-migrants in bothcensus years were residing in Pohnpei State.In 2000 the direction of migration flow from Chuuk was principally towards Pohnpei and Kosrae (Figure 6.1). Thelargest outflow was towards Pohnpei, which gained about 700 people from Chuuk.Table 6.3: State of Birth of Chuuk and other FSM States: 1994 and 2000State of Usual Residence in 1994 State of Usual Residence in 2000State of Birth Total Chuuk Yap Pohnpei Kosrae Total Chuuk Yap Pohnpei KosraeTotal 102,116 52,571 10,421 32,306 6,818 103,891 53,285 10,404 32,920 7,282Chuuk 53,012 52,347 57 588 20 54,006 53,093 47 804 62Yap 10,539 36 10,326 171 6 10,600 59 10,303 224 14Pohnpei 31,595 170 33 31,233 159 32,069 118 51 31,604 296Kosrae 6,970 18 5 314 6,633 7,216 15 3 288 6,910Source: 1994 FSM Censuses, Table P18; 2000 FSM Census, Table P2-5.Figure 6.1 Interstate Lifetime Net-Migration Flows of Chuuk and other FSM States, Chuuk: 2000.6868173124711 11Table 6.4 shows internal lifetime migration between the Lagoon and Outer Islands. Of the 53,093 persons born inChuuk, 50,714 were non-movers or who resided in their region of birth. The internal lifetime migrants were the 2,395who now resided in a different region than the one in which they were born.The lifetime migration rate column of table 6.4 describes net-migration as a rate, dividing the net-migrants by the totalpopulation. However, since the timing of the migration is undetermined, the rate expressed does not itself relate to anyspecific period, but enables broad comparison between regions. Lifetime internal migration affected both regions indifferent ways. The Lagoon had a lifetime internal migration rate of 4.4 per hundred, while the Outer Islands had alifetime internal migration rate of -12.3 per hundred, showing that the Lagoon is gaining people while the Outer IslandsChuuk Branch Statistics Office, Division of Statistics, FSM Department of Economic Affairs 51