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Austronesian peoples

Austronesian peoples
Native Tahitians.jpg
Native Tahitians, one of many Polynesian peoples in the Pacific.
Total population
(400,000,000+)
Regions with significant populations

 Indonesia: 260,581,000 (2016) [1]
 Philippines: est. 98,500,000
 Madagascar: over 20,000,000 (2011) [2]
 Malaysia: 14,290,000 (2010) [3]
 Papua New Guinea: 6,300,000
 East Timor: 1,167,242 (2015) [4]
 New Zealand: 855,000 (2006) [5] [6]
 United States: 816,144 [7]
 Brunei: 724,000? (2006)
 Singapore: over 700,000
 Solomon Islands: 478,000 (2005)
 Taiwan: 480,000 (2006)
 Fiji: 456,000 (2005) [8]
 Australia: 210,843
 Samoa: 193,773 (2015)
 Tonga: 105,323
 Northern Mariana Islands: 52,344
 Hawaii: 140,652 or 401,162 (depending on definition)
 Suriname: 71,000 (2009)

 Chile: 5,682
Languages
Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian languages or Formosan languages)
Religion
Animism, Shamanism, Christianity (Roman Catholicism, Protestantism), Indigenous religion, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Shinto

 Indonesia: 260,581,000 (2016) [1]
 Philippines: est. 98,500,000
 Madagascar: over 20,000,000 (2011) [2]
 Malaysia: 14,290,000 (2010) [3]
 Papua New Guinea: 6,300,000
 East Timor: 1,167,242 (2015) [4]
 New Zealand: 855,000 (2006) [5] [6]
 United States: 816,144 [7]
 Brunei: 724,000? (2006)
 Singapore: over 700,000
 Solomon Islands: 478,000 (2005)
 Taiwan: 480,000 (2006)
 Fiji: 456,000 (2005) [8]
 Australia: 210,843
 Samoa: 193,773 (2015)
 Tonga: 105,323
 Northern Mariana Islands: 52,344
 Hawaii: 140,652 or 401,162 (depending on definition)
 Suriname: 71,000 (2009)


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