Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) onFunafuti atoll inTuvalu is the only hospital in the country, and the primary provider of medical services for all theislands of Tuvalu. The hospital is located about 1.3 kilometres north from the centre ofFunafuti onFongafale islet.

For 2010, the total health budget was AUD $4,696,042. (Full article...)

Sir Tomu Malaefone Sione (17 November 1941 – April 2016) was a political figure from thePacific nation ofTuvalu. He worked as a journalist from 1962 to 1968, and held the post of radio announcer in the Broadcasting and Information Department of the administration of theGilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (GEIC). He was the head of the southernNiutao clan. He was married to Segali. (Full article...)

Nui is anatoll and one of nine districts of the Pacific Ocean state ofTuvalu. It has a land area of 3.37 km² and a population of 514 (2022 Census).

Traditionally Nuian culture is organised in three family circles – Tekaubaonga, Tekaunimala and Tekaunibiti families. Most people live on the western end ofFenua Tapu. In the 2012 census, 321 people live in Alamoni – Maiaki and 221 people live in Manutalake – Meang (Tanrake). The junior school is Vaipuna Primary School. (Full article...)

Association football is the most popular sport inTuvalu.Football in Tuvalu is governed by theTuvalu National Football Association (TNFA). The TNFA became an associate member association of theOceania Football Confederation (OFC) on 15 November 2006 with a further reinstatement on 16 March 2020. The TNFA has been wanting to become a full member of the OFC and a member ofFIFA since 1987. (Full article...)

Tuvalu elects alegislature on a national level. TheParliament of Tuvalu (Palamene o Tuvalu) has 16 members, elected for a four-year term in 8 double-seatconstituencies. Tuvalu is a de factonon-partisan democracy since it does not havepolitical parties. The political system is based on personal alliances and loyalties derived from clan and family connections. It does tend to have both a distinct government and a distinct opposition. The 16 members of the current parliament are elected from eight two-seat constituencies viaplurality block voting.

Throughout the history of the parliament three women have been elected:Naama Maheu Latasi, from 1989 to 1997;Pelenike Isaia, from 2011 to 2015; and DrPuakena Boreham from 2015 to 2024. (Full article...)

Tuvalu is aPolynesianisland nation located in thePacific Ocean, midway betweenHawaii andAustralia, with a population of 11,192 per the 2017 census. The economy ofTuvalu is constrained by its remoteness and lack ofeconomies of scale. Government revenues largely come from fishing licences (primarily paid under theSouth Pacific Tuna Treaty); direct grants from international donors (government donors as well as from theAsian Development Bank); and income from theTuvalu Trust Fund. The lease of its highly fortuitous.tvTop Level Domain (TLD) also contributes revenue. The sale of stamps since the independence of Tuvalu in 1976 has been an important source of revenue for the country and government. However, such revenue has significantly declined in recent years. Tuvalu has hardly any tourism. It has no tour guides, tour operators, or organised activities, and no cruise ships visit.

World Bank Statistics outline that in 2010 Tuvalu produced a bottom-tier rankingGross Domestic Product of $31,350,804 andGross National Income of $4,760, compared to other PacificSIDS states such asKiribati at $2,010 and theMarshall Islands at $3,640. A large proportion of national income comes from the employment of 15% of adult male Tuvaluans overseas in the maritime industry. The value of theseremittances was valued at A$4 million (est. 2006) and on average accounts for 10% of GDP. A UN Report makes reference to the fact that these revenue streams are vulnerable to macroeconomic change while the national budget remains heavily subsidised through international aid and funding schemes such as the Tuvalu Trust Fund with a strong reliance on the importation of food, which was estimated at $15.5 million in 2007. (Full article...)

Willy Telavi (born 28 January 1954) is a Tuvaluan politician who served asPrime Minister of Tuvalu from 2010 to 2013.

Born inNanumea, Telavi was first elected to parliament in 2006 and was re-elected in 2010. He became prime minister on 24 December 2010 and theTelavi Ministry retained government until August 2013. The refusal of prime minister Telavi to recall theParliament of Tuvalu after the2013 Nukufetau by-election resulted in aconstitutional crisis when he adopted the position that, under theConstitution of Tuvalu, he was only required to convene parliament once a year, and was thus under no obligation to summon it until December 2013. The opposition then requested theGovernor-General of Tuvalu, SirIakoba Italeli, to intervene against the Telavi's decision. (Full article...)

Thepolitics ofTuvalu takes place in a framework of aparliamentaryrepresentative democraticmonarchy, whereby themonarch is thehead of state, represented by thegovernor-general, while theprime minister is thehead of government.Executive power is exercised by the government.

TheConstitution of Tuvalu states that it is "the supreme law of Tuvalu" and that "all other laws shall be interpreted and applied subject to this Constitution"; it sets out thePrinciples of the Bill of Rights and theProtection of the Fundamental Rights and Freedoms. In 1986 the Constitution adopted upon independence was amended in order to give attention to Tuvaluan custom and tradition as well as the aspirations and values of the Tuvaluan people. The changes placed greater emphasis on Tuvaluan community values rather than Western concepts of individual freedom. The Constitution of Tuvalu Act 2023, further addressed the role of Tuvaluan culture, and also referred to theclimate crisis, and Tuvalu’s statehood and national boundaries. (Full article...)

From 1916 to 1975,Tuvalu was part of theGilbert and Ellice Islands colony of the United Kingdom. Areferendum was held in 1974 to determine whether the Gilbert Islands and Ellice Islands should each have their own administration. As a consequence of the referendum, the separate British colonies ofKiribati and Tuvalu were formed. Tuvalu became fully independent as asovereign state within theCommonwealth on 1 October 1978. On 5 September 2000, Tuvalu became the189th member of the United Nations.

Tuvalu is a very smallisland country of 26 km² (10 sq mi). In terms of physical land size, Tuvalu is the fourth smallest country in the world, larger only than theVatican City—0.44 km²;Monaco—1.95 km² andNauru—21 km². it is the third-least populated independent country in the world, with a population of 10,507 (2017 Census). Because of the small size of theeconomy of Tuvalu, its foreign relations are limited to its most important partners. Tuvalu maintains close relations with Fiji, New Zealand, Australia (which has maintained aHigh Commission in Tuvalu since 2018), Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the United States of America, the United Kingdom and theEuropean Union. (Full article...)

Thecoral reefs of Tuvalu consist of threereef islands and sixatolls, containing approximately 710 km² (270 sq mi) of reef platforms. Theislands of the Tuvalu archipelago are spread out between thelatitude of5° to10° south andlongitude of176° to180°, west of theInternational Date Line. The islands ofTuvalu are volcanic in origin. On the atolls, an annular reef rim surrounds the lagoon, and may include natural reef channels. The reef islands have a different structure to the atolls, and are described as reef platforms as they are smaller tabular reef platforms that do not have a salt-waterlagoon, although they may have a completely closed rim of dry land, with the remnants of a lagoon that has no direct connection to the open sea or that may be drying up. (Full article...)

Thistimeline of the history of Tuvalu chronologically lists important events occurring within the present political boundaries of thePacific island state ofTuvalu. This time line is introduced by the theories as to the origins of the Polynesian people and the migration across the Pacific Ocean to createPolynesia, which includes the islands of Tuvalu. (Full article...)

Funafuti is anatoll, comprising numerous islets, that serves as the capital ofTuvalu. As of the 2017 census, it has a population of 6,320 people. More people live in Funafuti than the rest of Tuvalu combined, with it containing approximately 60% of the nation's population. The main islet,Fongafale, hostsVaiaku, the administrative center of the nation.

Funafuti was first sighted by Europeans in 1819 byArent Schuyler de Peyster, an American sea captain, who named it Ellice's Island. Between 1850 and 1875, Funafati, with its navigable lagoon, was targeted byblackbirders who kidnapped natives to work at mines off the coast of Peru and Chile. In 1892, each of the Ellice Islands was declared aBritish protectorate by CaptainHerbert Gibson ofHMS Curacoa. In 1909, the firstresident magistrate was appointed to Funafuti; in 1915, Funafuti, along with the rest of the Ellice Islands, were incorporated into theGilbert and Ellice Islands as a crown colony. In October 1942, during World War II, Funafutiwas occupied by American forces to serve as a strategic staging ground for theGilbert and Marshall Islands campaign. Over the course of the war, the Americans dredged Funafuti's lagoon harbor and established the atoll's airfield, now known asFunafuti International Airport. In October 1972,Cyclone Bebe struck Funafuti, causing extensive damage; despite this Funafuti was chosen as the administrative capital of the newly founded nation of Tuvalu in 1978. As the capital of Tuvalu, Funafuti is by far the most urbanized atoll in the country, and is the hub of governmental, administrative, and economic activities. (Full article...)

Apaopao (from theSamoan language, meaning a small fishing canoe made from a single log), is the name used by thePolynesian-speaking inhabitants of the Ellice Islands (nowTuvalu) for their single-outrigger canoes, of which the largest could carry four to six adults. The largedouble-hulled sailing canoes (lualua andfoulua) had ceased to be constructed in the Ellice Islands some time before contact with Europeans.

Donald Gilbert Kennedy, the resident District Officer in the administration of theGilbert and Ellice Islands Colony from 1932 to 1938, described the construction ofpaopao and of the variations of single-outrigger canoes that had been developed onVaitupu andNanumea.Gerd Koch, an anthropologist, visited the atolls ofNanumaga,Nukufetau andNiutao, in 1960–61, and published a book on the material culture of the Ellice Islands, which also described the canoes of those islands. (Full article...)

Tuvalu competed at the2016 Summer Olympics inRio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. The country's participation at Rio de Janeiro marked its third consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics since its debut in2008. The delegation included a single track and field athlete: sprinterEtimoni Timuani. Etimoni was also the nation's flagbearer in theParade of Nations. He did not progress past the first round of his men's 100 metres competition. (Full article...)

TheTuvalu Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (TASNOC) is the Tuvaluan organization recognised as aNational Olympic Committee (NOC) by theInternational Olympic Committee (IOC). In 2006,Tuvalu satisfied the IOC's criterion of a minimum five national sports federations recognised by their international sports federations, which includedbasketball, volleyball,weightlifting, boxing and table tennis.

TASNOC is a signatory to the World Anti-Doping Code published by theWorld Anti-Doping Agency. (Full article...)