Editing Kiritimati (section)

===Demography===

At the first census done in the [[Gilbert and Ellice Islands]] colony in 1931, there were only 38 inhabitants on the island, most of them workers of the {{ill|Emmanuel Rougier|fr}} Company. After WWII in 1947 there were 52 inhabitants. After the nuclear tests, in 1963, this had increased to 477, reducing to 367 by 1967 but increasing again to 674 in 1973, 1,265 in 1978, 1,737 in the 1985 census, 2,537 in 1990, 3,225 in 1995, 3,431 in 2000, 5,115 in 2005, 5,586 in 2010, 6,456 in 2015 and 7,369 in 2020. This was the fastest population growth in Kiribati.