Northern Mariana Islands MP
East Asia & Pacific · High income · capital Saipan
- Population
- 43,541
- 2025
- GDP
- $1.1 billion
- 2022
- Life expectancy
- 78.9 y
- 2024
Geospatial extent
Bounding box 144.90°–145.87° E, 14.11°–20.56° N · centroid 17.33, 145.39 · source natural-earth-1:110m
Map © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Extent only; no cadastre or address data.
Top research institutions
- Northern Marianas College — 158 works · ROR · site
- Department of Lands and Natural Resources — 61 works · ROR · site
- Pacific Marine Resources Institute — 20 works · ROR · site
- Adam Smith University — 6 works · ROR · site
- Graceland International University — 0 works · ROR · site
OpenAlex works counts; not a quality ranking.
Legal system
the laws of the US apply, except for customs and some aspects of taxation
CIA World Factbook (factbook.json)
Measured indicators
| indicator | value | year | source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural land (% of land) | 2.3 | 2024 | World Bank |
| basic_water_pct | 100.0 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Access to electricity (%) | 100.0 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Forest area (% of land) | 53.3 | 2024 | World Bank |
| GDP per capita (current US$) | 23,785.8 | 2022 | World Bank |
| Net migration | -963.0 | 2025 | World Bank |
| Prison population rate per 100,000 | 304.0 | 2022 | World Prison Brief / OWID |
| Research institutions indexed (OpenAlex) | 6.0 | 2026-10-14 | OpenAlex |
| Works in full OpenAlex snapshot (2026-10-14) | 241.0 | 2026-10-14 snapshot | OpenAlex full snapshot |
| research_works_exported | 40.0 | 2026-10-14 snapshot | OpenAlex snapshot |
| Scholarly works since 2021 (OpenAlex) | 93.0 | 2021– | OpenAlex |
| Safely managed drinking water (%) | 81.5 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Trade (% of GDP) | 93.2 | 2022 | World Bank |
| Urban population (%) | 92.2 | 2025 | World Bank |
Lane coverage
| lane | status | what exists |
|---|---|---|
| patents | GREY · source has no observation | no patent counts or PATENTSCOPE office metadata are published for this country/economy; this is a source gap, not zero patents source |
| legal | YELLOW · partial | legal-system description (CIA World Factbook, public domain); no statutes, gazettes or case law ingested, and Factbook recency is not guaranteed source |
| alerts | YELLOW · partial | global GDACS/USGS feeds are live; no active event currently names this country (not an all-clear) source |
| defense | GREY · source has no observation | no SIPRI/World Bank military-expenditure observation and no US DoD award row; not a statement about actual defence activity source |
| space | YELLOW · partial | global launch feed is live; 0 launches from pads here in the current bounded window source |
| maps | YELLOW · partial | Natural Earth 1:10m public-domain boundary (extent + centroid); no cadastre, address data or navigation map source |
| passport | GLOBAL · service live | pass.go-v.org is live; per-country identity documents are NOT ingested source |
| research | GREEN · ingested | 40 OpenAlex works name an institution in this country (country-affiliation subset of the 464,765,485-work export). source |
| economy | GREEN · ingested | GDP per capita, current US$ (World Bank); not a cost-of-living or inequality measure source |
| health | GREEN · ingested | life expectancy at birth, World Bank; not a health system performance rating source |
| education | GREY · source has no observation | the World Bank publishes no primary/tertiary enrolment observation for this economy source |
| energy | GREEN · ingested | access to electricity (% of population), World Bank source |
| water | YELLOW · partial | at least basic drinking water (% of population), World Bank/WHO; safely managed data shown when available source |
| connectivity | GREY · source has no observation | the ITU series carried by the World Bank has no observation for this economy source |
| crime | GREY · source has no observation | the UNODC homicide series carried by the World Bank has no observation for this economy source |
| conflict | GREY · source has no observation | the UCDP battle-death series carried by the World Bank has no observation for this economy source |
| business | GREY · source has no observation | the World Bank new-business registrations series has no observation for this economy source |
| science | GREEN · ingested | 6 research institutions indexed by OpenAlex; an institutional index, not a lab-certification register source |
| prison | GREEN · ingested | prison population rate 304 per 100,000 (World Prison Brief via Our World in Data, 2022); not a prison conditions assessment source |
| interpol | GREY · source has no observation | Interpol public notices are not ingested: the public API returns 403 to this host and its terms do not grant bulk reuse source |
| arms | GREY · source has no observation | SIPRI Arms Transfers Database is not wired; military expenditure is carried under the defense lane instead source |
| sanctions | GREEN · ingested | 0 designations naming this country in the ingested OFAC SDN and UN Security Council consolidated lists; a measured zero, not a claim of no illicit activity source |
| agriculture | GREEN · ingested | agricultural land (% of land area), World Bank/FAO source |
| food | GREY · source has no observation | no undernourishment estimate for this economy source |
| labor | GREY · source has no observation | no ILO unemployment estimate for this economy source |
| finance | GREY · source has no observation | no Findex account-ownership observation for this economy source |
| environment | GREEN · ingested | forest area (% of land area), World Bank/FAO source |
| trade | GREEN · ingested | trade (% of GDP), World Bank source |
| migration | YELLOW · partial | net migration (5-year estimate), World Bank/UN source |
| tourism | GREY · source has no observation | no tourist-arrivals observation for this economy source |
| housing | YELLOW · partial | urban population (% of total), World Bank; not a housing-cost or tenure measure source |
| transport | GREY · source has no observation | no air-passenger observation for this economy source |
| investment | GREY · source has no observation | no FDI observation for this economy source |
| remittances | GREY · source has no observation | no remittance-inflow observation for this economy source |
| health_finance | GREY · source has no observation | no health-expenditure observation for this economy source |
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Cite this page
Northern Mariana Islands (MP). go-v.org estate, https://estate.116.202.234.183.nip.io/mp. Data: World Bank Open Data, OpenAlex, WIPO, Natural Earth, OpenStreetMap. Accessed 2026-10-25.