Census counts 107,008 people: Chuuk 53,595, Pohnpei 34,486, Yap 11,241, Kosrae 7,686.

What happened

The total was barely above the 1994 count of 105,506. Francis Hezel found that emigration, about 2,000 people a year, had cut population growth to about 0.2% a year from 1994 to 2000.