free range statistics

Pacific island energy supply

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100

Pacific island countries are heavily dependent on imported diesel, gas and kerosene for electricity generation and for cooking.

Pacific island demograpy, the narrative

Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100

Pacific island populations are shaped by people movements, more than is the case for most countries in the world. Ease of migration—because of history, culture or international agreements—has a critical impact on population size, growth and shape; and the fundamentals of the economy.

Pacific island remittances

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100

Pacific island countries have some of the highest dependencies in the world on remittance payments from overseas.

Pacific island population pyramids (again)

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1100

Population pyramids for Pacific countries, one or two at a time. I use these to highlight contrasts between two coral atoll nations, one of which has free movement to a large, rich country, and one of which doesn't.

Pacific diaspora

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100

Some Pacific countries have dramatically more of "their" people living overseas than in the origin country. And some don't.

The world's biggest 'Pacific' cities

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100

My best hasty effort at presenting the cities around the world with the most Pacific Islanders resident.

Visualising income inequality social tables

Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1100

Visualising income inequality social tables as a scatter plot rather than a dual axis bar/line plot. I use examples from eighteenth and nineteenth century France, England and Wales drawing on Branko Milanovic's Visions of Inequality 2023 publication.

New Caledonia's nickel exports

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1100

Accessing data and drawing charts for nickel exports from New Caledonia, and world nickel prices, from 2008 to 2025.

Net migration in Pacific island countries

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +1100

Accessing data and drawing visualisations of net migration for Pacific island countries and territories.

Visual summaries of population in Pacific islands

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +1100

Accessing population data for the Pacific and drawing two visual summaries of its recent and projected growth and absolute size, as used recently in a side event before the Pacific Heads of Planning and Statistics meeting in Wellington.