This report presents the preliminary results of the Tuvalu Population and Housing MiniCensus 2017. The Census provides a snapshot of the country at the specified night of 12th November, 2017.

It is the first census to be held in Tuvalu within a 5 year period at most followed a 10 year time-frame since the country’s independence in 1978, it is called a ‘Mini-Census’ as it does not cover all of the usual process requiring of the censuses proceedings.