The Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. commonwealth in the North Pacific, is the fifth fastest shrinking nation in 2024, with a 1.76 per cent population decline.
It’s estimated just under 44,000 people live in the Islands, a number that’s been in sharp decline since the year 2000.
Like other Pacific Island nations on this list, low immigration and high emigration levels, as well as persistently low fertility, are to blame.
