Table 1.

Land, population, economic characteristics, and cancer prevalence in the US-associated Pacific Islands^*

	Am Samoa	Guam	CNMI	Federated States of Micronesia (FSM)				RMI	Palau
				Pohnpei	Kosrae	Chuuk	Yap
Inhabited to total islands and atolls	7:7	1:1	3:14	9:9	1:1	40:207	82:142	1,225†	14:343
Land mass (square mile)	199	212	184	129	42	39	46	70	189
Miles between furthest islands	220	–	400	500	–	200	600	1,000	370
Population	57,291	168,564	80,365	34,486	7,686	53,595	11,241	59,071	20,303
Languages spoken besides English	1	2	2	6	1	2	4	1	3
Per capita GNP	$8,000	$21,000	$12,500	$2,000 for FSM overall				$1,600	$9,000
Median age	22.8	28.4	29.3	18.9	19.2	18.5	20.9	19.9	31.4
Life expectancy	75.8	78.4	75.9	69.8 for FSM overall				70.0	70.1
Cancer is_leading cause of death	2nd	2nd	2nd	3rd	4th‡	3rd	1st	2nd	1st‡
Prevalence (annualized per 100,000)
Breast				10.7	11.5	7.9	15.6	36.0	17.1
Cervix				24.8	33.4	4.8	13.1	60.5	37.5
Gastric				7.7	17.6	3.0	1.1	2.9	37.5
Liver				11.9	4.1	5.2	24.4	10.2	19.4
Lung				21.3	8.7	24.6	39.6	41.1	34.6
Oral				6.2	7.9	3.8	22.1	12.6	12.4
Prostate				4.9	10.9	2.5	14.0	9.3	74.9
Thyroid				3.0	1.6	2.6	2.6	28.6	4.2

^*From Pacific Health Dialog,¹¹–¹⁹ CIA World Factbook,²³ and Katz et al.²⁴

^†Of 1,225 islets, islands, and atolls, we were unable to determine the exact number of those inhabited.

^‡Report to CCPI, November 2005.