Statistics are from INSEE and the United Nations Demographic Yearbooks.
Since 2003, these French Pacific islands have been facing a decrease in their population due to a strong emigration of young people of university or working age.
In Wallis and Futuna, natural increase has been divided by five in past twenty years.
As the balance of births over deaths is very slightly in surplus, the migratory deficit explains the decline in the population.
Between the censuses of 2018 and 2023, natural increase was only 42 people on average per year.