Table 1. Selected nations for review.

Region	Country/territory	Population (based on most recent census)	Political Status *	Trachoma endemicity status in 2017 **
Melanesia	Papua New Guinea	7,275,324	Independent nation	Known to require interventions
	Fiji	884,887	Independent nation	Known to require interventions
	Solomon Islands	515,870	Independent nation	Known to require interventions
	Vanuatu	272,459	Independent nation	Known to require interventions
	New Caledonia	269,000	Territorial collectivity of France	Non-endemic
Micronesia	Guam	159,358	Organised, unincorporated territory of the US	-
	Kiribati	110,136	Independent nation	Known to require interventions
	Federated States of Micronesia	102,624	Federal republic in free association with the US	Non-endemic
	Northern Mariana Islands	55,883	Commonwealth in political union with the US	-
	Marshall Islands	53,158	Presidential republic in free association with the US	Non-endemic
	Republic of Palau	17,661	Presidential republic in free association with the US	Non-endemic
	Nauru	10,084	Independant nation	Status uncertain
Polynesia	French Polynesia	275,918	Overseas collectivity of France	Non-endemic
	Samoa	195,979	Independent nation	Non-endemic
	Tonga	100,651	Independent nation	Non-endemic
	American Samoa	55,519	Unincorporated and unorganised territory of the US;	Non-endemic
	Cook Islands	17,794	Self-governing in free association with New Zealand	Non-endemic
	Wallis and Furtuna	13 484	Overseas collectivity of France	Non-endemic
	Tuvalu	10,837	Independent nation	Non-endemic
	Niue	1607	Self-governing in free association with New Zealand	Non-endemic
	Tokelau	1499	Self-administering territory of New Zealand	-
	Pitcairn Islands	66	Overseas territory of the UK	-

* Political status taken from the US Central Intelligence Agency World Fact Book [19]

** Endemicity classification taken from the Global Health Observatory [20]. Places with status listed on the Global Health Observatory were shown with a hyphen (-)