# Vanuatu

- Link: https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/vanuatu/
- Published: 2026-05-22T22:16:25-05:00
- Author: Preeti Sinha

National Blueprint · One of 195

# Vanuatu

An archipelago of 335,000 in the South Pacific where visitors earn half of export
income, only one in five has safely managed drinking water, and the World Bank finances
climate-resilient roads.

Perfect Nations values what Vanuatu owns and raises capital against it, through **
innovative financing for development (FfD)** and **super intelligence (SI)**.

Vanuatu at a glance

 * **335,169**PeopleWorld Bank
 * _Furthest from reach · Water_**80.8%**of people in Vanuatu lack safely managed
   drinking water[WHO/UNICEF, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.H2O.SMDW.ZS?locations=VU)
 * **1**Instrument or investment on record[Capital already committed](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/vanuatu/#bp-register)

[Work with us](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/vanuatu/#bp-studio)[Read the Letter to Vanuatu](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/vanuatu/#bp-letter)

What we do for Vanuatu

## Assets. Capital. Solutions.

Perfect Nations is a new-age sovereign advisory firm, and its clients are nations.

 1. [01AssetsThe cupFive sovereign assets, valued, from The Visitors to The Fresh Water.](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/vanuatu/#bp-assets)
 2. [02CapitalThe laurelsOne instrument on record, sourced.](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/vanuatu/#bp-capital)
 3. [03SolutionsThe seven starsSeven basic standards of living, star by star. Water is furthest from reach today.](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/vanuatu/#bp-pc)

**The whole logo:** a Perfect Nation, where every citizen has all seven basic standards
of living, led by good governance.

[01](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/vanuatu/#bp-do)**Assets** · The cup ·
Sovereign Assets

## Five assets no balance sheet counts.

Each is owned today, earns today, and can carry Vanuatu toward seven basic standards
of living for every citizen.

 * **50.4%**Of export earnings from visitors, 2020
 * 
   ### The Visitors
   
 * Volcanoes, reefs and island culture: visitors earned half of exports in 2020.
 * **74.6%**Of the land under forest, 2024
 * 
   ### The Forest
   
 * Forest across three quarters of the land.
 * **17.2%**Of GDP sent home by citizens abroad, 2022
 * 
   ### The Diaspora
   
 * Ni-Vanuatu working abroad send home a sixth of the economy.
 * **335,169**Citizens, 2025
 * 
   ### The People
   
 * 38% are under fifteen: a young nation.
 * **31,944 m³**Renewable fresh water a person, 2022
 * 
   ### The Fresh Water
   
 * Rain and rivers renewed every year: power, irrigation and drinking water.

[Every figure, with its source](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/vanuatu/#bp-sources)
[The Sovereign Assets ledger](https://perfectnations.com/sovereign-assets/)

[02](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/vanuatu/#bp-do)**Capital** · The laurels·
Capital Architecture

## Visitors, the season workers abroad and roads that last.

Bonds, guarantees, swaps and loans that raise capital against what Vanuatu owns,
every line sourced.

[Capital Architecture](https://perfectnations.com/capital-architecture/)

The record in figures

 * **50.4%**Tourism receipts, share of export earnings, 2020[World Bank, 2020](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/ST.INT.RCPT.XP.ZS?locations=VU)
 * **17.2%**Remittances received from citizens abroad, share of GDP, 2022[World Bank, 2022](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BX.TRF.PWKR.DT.GD.ZS?locations=VU)
 * **$30M**Climate Resilient Transport Project, second additional financing, June
   2024[World Bank, 2024](https://projects.worldbank.org/en/projects-operations/project-detail/P181577)
 * **36.2%**General government gross debt, share of GDP, 2025[IMF, WEO Oct 2026](https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/GGXWDG_NGDP@WEO/VUT)

Capital already committed

 * MultilateralApprovedClimate Resilient Transport Project, additional financing
   II$30M
 * World Bank · Approved 12 June 2024
 * Roads and bridges that withstand cyclones.
 * World Bank
 * [Source](https://projects.worldbank.org/en/projects-operations/project-detail/P181577)

### The Vanuatu Newswire

[The Solutions Wire](https://perfectnations.com/state-of-nations/#sn-wire)

![Marie Tari, Nation Steward of Vanuatu](https://perfectnations.com/wp-content/uploads/
2026/11/Marie-Tari-Nation-Steward-of-Vanuatu-150x150.png)

**Marie Tari**Nation Steward of Vanuatu · SI ResearcherLast updated 10 November 
2026

 * 2 Jul 2025[**Bernard Harborne Announced as World Bank Group Resident Representative for Solomon Islands and Vanuatu**](https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2025/07/02/bernard-harborne-announced-as-world-bank-group-resident-representative-for-solomon-islands-and-vanuatu)
   World Bank

## Already working in Vanuatu.

Independent firms and social enterprises already at work in Vanuatu, highlighted
by Perfect Nations. None is a partner of Perfect Nations.

[Suggest an enterprise](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/vanuatu/contact@perfectnations.com?subject=An%20enterprise%20already%20at%20work%20in%20Vanuatu)

 * 
   ### The first firms and social enterprises at work in Vanuatu are being gathered.
   
 * Name one already at work there: it may be highlighted here, with its source.

[03](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/vanuatu/#bp-do)**Solutions** · The seven
stars · Perfect Capita

## Perfect Vanuatu, _star by star._

**Perfect Capita** is the yearly cost, per person, of lifting everyone above the
Living Line in all seven basic living standards, set with Vanuatu in its own prices.

[How Perfect Capita works](https://perfectnations.com/perfect-capita/)

**19.2%**

Water · furthest from reachSafely managed drinking water[WHO/UNICEF, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.H2O.SMDW.ZS?locations=VU)

Tap a star for its figure and source.

The price of Perfect Vanuatu

To be set with Vanuatu, from its own figures and in its own prices: Perfect Capita
times the people of Vanuatu, each year.

Read more

 * Food**76.7%**Not food insecure; 23.3% are moderately or severely food insecure,
   dated[FAO, 2020](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SN.ITK.MSFI.ZS?locations=VU)
 * Water**19.2%**Safely managed drinking water[WHO/UNICEF, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.H2O.SMDW.ZS?locations=VU)
 * Shelter**96.9%**City dwellers outside slums; 3.1% live in slums; safely managed
   sanitation is not measured[UN-Habitat, 2022](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.POP.SLUM.UR.ZS?locations=VU)
 * Energy**20%**20% cook with clean fuels and technology; 65.5% have electricity
   [World Bank, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.CFT.ACCS.ZS?locations=VU)
 * Education**64.6**64.6% of young people complete lower secondary school[World Bank, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.SEC.CMPT.LO.ZS?locations=VU)
 * Health**52**WHO service coverage index[WHO, 2023](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/universal-health-coverage-index?country=~VUT)
 * Livelihood**63.1%**Above US$4.20 a day; 36.9% live below it, dated[World Bank, 2019](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.LMIC?locations=VU)

Perfect Nations estimate, to be confirmed with Vanuatu. Figures marked dated rest
on surveys more than five years old; lenient measures are marked as such. [The strict measures](https://perfectnations.com/perfect-capita/#pq-measures)

Strict measures. Food: share not moderately or severely food insecure (FAO). Water:
safely managed drinking water where measured; where it is not, basic water, marked
as such. Shelter: the lower of safely managed sanitation and the share outside urban
slums. Energy: the lower of electricity per person against 1,000 kWh and clean cooking;
where electricity per person is not published, clean cooking. Education: the lower
of children reading by the end of primary school and lower-secondary completion.
Health: WHO service coverage index. Livelihood: share above the stricter of the 
national poverty line and the World Bank line for the nation’s income group (US$
8.30 a day for high-income nations). Each figure links to its source.

### Solutions for Perfect Vanuatu

[All Solutions](https://perfectnations.com/state-of-nations/#sn-solutions)

 * **The Solution for Vanuatu**Water
 * 
   ### Turn cheaper debt into safe water.
   
    - **01****The challenge**80.8% Of people in Vanuatu lack safely managed drinking
      water. [WHO/UNICEF, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.H2O.SMDW.ZS?locations=VU)
    - **02****The deal**
    - Debt-for-climate-resilience swap, proved in Barbados, 2024: $300M the world’s
      first for resilience. [Inter-American Development Bank, 2024](https://www.iadb.org/en/news/barbados-launched-worlds-first-debt-climate-resilience-operation)
    - **03****What Perfect Nations advises**Nations where water is furthest from
      reach should swap costly debt for cheaper, guaranteed debt and commit the 
      savings to water and sewerage. With super intelligence, every saving can be
      followed into each household connection, main and treatment plant, and the
      next connection planned where the need is greatest.
 * Co-design it in**The ReDesign Studio**[The three mandates](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/vanuatu/#bp-mandates)

Perfect Nations® · Letters to the NationsVanuatu

## Dear Vanuatu,

Your volcanoes and reefs draw the world, and your workers abroad send home a sixth
of what you earn.

Read more

Two in three of you have electricity, and one in five cooks with clean fuel. Only
one in five of you has safely managed drinking water. Let the visitors and the workers
abroad finance safe water on every island.

“Let the visitors and the workers abroad bring safe water to every island.”

Yours in design,**Preeti Sinha**President and CEO, Perfect Nations

Work with us · The ReDesign Studio

## The Perfect Vanuatu _ReDesign Studio_

One mission, three depths: the same four moves for Vanuatu, taken as far toward 
market as you choose.

Read more

For the Government of Vanuatu, its development partners and investors. Scope and
fees are agreed in writing before any work begins.

 1. **01**Identify the assets
 2. **02**Estimate Perfect Capita
 3. **03**Co-design the capital architecture
 4. **04**Launch the instruments

 1.  Mandate 013 hours
 2.  
     ### The Nation Briefing
     
 3.  A private session for the people who decide.
 4.  You leave withThe gap, named and sized
 5.  Read more
 6.   a. **01**The five sovereign assets on this page, walked through.
      b. **02**Water, the standard furthest from reach, and the Gap, explained.
      c. **03**The instruments that could close the Gap, shortlisted.
      d. **04**The path to market, outlined.
 7.  [Request a Nation Briefing](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?about=briefing&country=Vanuatu)
 8.  Mandate 023 days
 9.  
     ### The Blueprint Lab
     
 10. Your team and ours, working the blueprint together.
 11. You leave withThe structure, drawn
 12. Read more
 13.  a. **01**The ledger tested against your ministries’ own data.
      b. **02**Each of the seven standards costed in local prices.
      c. **03**One financing structure, drawn with your team.
      d. **04**A term sheet and the partners to approach.
 14. [Plan a Blueprint Lab](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?about=lab&country=Vanuatu)
 15. Mandate 03End to end
 16. 
     ### The Sovereign Mandate
     
 17. Led personally by the President and CEO.
 18. You leave withA structure ready for market
 19. Read more
 20.  a. **01**A full sovereign asset ledger, valued and verified.
      b. **02**Perfect Capita set and agreed with government, with a monitoring plan.
      c. **03**The full structure: legal form, credit enhancement, guarantees and pricing.
      d. **04**Taken to investors and development partners, through to close.
 21. [Discuss a Sovereign Mandate](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?about=commission&country=Vanuatu)

### Co-design it with us

Where the Ni-Vanuatu and Co-designers design the nation they want to live in.

 * Writings
 * 
   #### Write Perfect Vanuatu into being.
   
 * Up to 1,500 words on your vision of Perfect Vanuatu, published with your name.
 * [Submit your writing](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/vanuatu/contact@perfectnations.com?subject=Writing%20for%20Perfect%20Vanuatu&body=Your%20name%2C%20or%20a%20pen%20name%3A%0D%0AWhere%20you%20live%3A%0D%0ATitle%3A%0D%0A%0D%0AYour%20vision%20of%20Perfect%20Vanuatu%2C%20and%20the%20economic%20solutions%20to%20achieve%20it%20%28up%20to%201%2C500%20words%29%3A%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AI%20confirm%20that%20this%20is%20my%20own%20original%20writing%2C%20and%20I%20give%20Perfect%20Nations%20permission%20to%20publish%20it%20with%20credit%20to%20me.%0D%0A)
 * Voices of Perfect Nations Launching soon
 * 
   #### The local leaders already building Perfect Vanuatu.
   
 * Great local leaders: honest, dedicated and committed to basic standards of living
   for all. Every guest answers one question: “What does Vanuatu already own, and
   how could it pay for a decent life for every citizen?”
 * [Nominate yourself](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?nation=vanuatu&topic=nominate-self)
   [Suggest a guest](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?nation=vanuatu&topic=guest)
 * Co-designers
 * 
   #### Join the community.
   
 * Everyone who shares a vision, a voice or an enterprise here becomes a **Co-designer
   of Perfect Vanuatu**.
 * [Become a Co-designer](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/vanuatu/contact@perfectnations.com?subject=Becoming%20a%20Co-designer%20of%20Perfect%20Vanuatu&body=Your%20name%3A%0D%0AWhere%20you%20live%3A%0D%0AHow%20you%20would%20like%20to%20contribute%20%28writing%2C%20a%20voice%20for%20the%20podcast%2C%20an%20enterprise%2C%20your%20expertise%29%3A%0D%0A)

The Vanuatu ReDesign Studio is open

## Design Perfect Vanuatu with us.

Share your vision, suggest a guest, or write to us: every message receives a personal
reply.

[Enter the ReDesign Studio](https://perfectnations.com/design-studio/)[Write to us](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?nation=vanuatu)
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Sources

 1. World Bank, World Development Indicators (API), accessed 10 November 2026: population
    and ages 0 to 14, 2025; land area and agricultural and forest land; renewable fresh
    water per person, 2022; natural resource, oil, gas and mineral rents, 2021; renewable
    electricity output, 2021; tourism receipts; personal remittances; electricity access
    and clean cooking.
 2. The seven standards: FAO food insecurity, WHO/UNICEF JMP water and sanitation, 
    UN-Habitat urban slums, World Bank clean cooking, learning poverty and lower-secondary
    completion, and poverty headcounts (all via the World Bank); WHO UHC service coverage
    index, 2023.
 3. IMF, World Economic Outlook, October 2026 (DataMapper, accessed 10 November 2026):
    general government gross debt, 2025, and real GDP growth projected for 2026.
 4. World Bank project P181577; World Bank press release of 2 July 2025.