Census counts 105,506 people: Chuuk 53,319, Pohnpei 33,692, Yap 11,178, Kosrae 7,317.

What happened

This was the FSM’s highest census count to date. Growth was slowing: Francis Hezel found that emigration ran at about 2,000 people a year from 1994 to 2000 and that population growth fell to 0.2% a year. The 2000 census counted only about 1,500 more people.