[29] ^ b: Melanesian pidgin is lingua franca in much of the country, but English remains the official language.

^ f: English, while not an official language, is widely understood, spoken, and used for most government and commercial purposes.

[34] ^ k: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office does not hold any statistical information on the literacy rate of the Pitcairn population.

[35] ^ l: The residents of the Pitcairn Islands are descendants of HMS Bounty mutineers[36] and their Tahitian wives.

The remaining figures are based on estimates, and have been used only where census information from the nation in question is incomplete, unclear, or nonexistent.