Vanuatu

The British and French, who settled the New Hebrides in the 19th century, agreed in 1906 to an Anglo-French Condominium, which administered the islands until independence in 1980.

 

205,754 (July 2005 est.)

 

total population: 62.49 years

Ni-Vanuatu 98.5%, other

1.5% (1999 Census)

local languages (more than

100) 72.6%, pidgin (known

as Bislama or Bichelama)

23.1%, English 1.9%, French

1.4%, other 0.3%, unspecified

0.7% (1999 Census)