Living in Tuvalu | How People Live in the Country That Could Disappear

Tuvalu is called the country that is sinking — yet its land has actually grown since 1971, and almost nobody who wins a visa to leave wants to go. Welcome to Tuvalu. 🇹🇻 From the only runway in the nation, which turns into the island's playground every evening, to the one hospital for 10,500 people, rainwater tanks, salt-damaged pulaka pits, a brand-new strip of land built to outlast 2100 and a visa ballot that 8,700 people entered, this is daily life one metre above the Pacific — with the real numbers behind it. Why do people stay on islands the sea is coming for — and what would they lose by leaving? In this journey, you will discover: 00:00:00 Intro: Living in Tuvalu 00:02:17 Stop 1: A tiny nation 00:05:33 Stop 2: Life on Funafuti 00:09:08 Stop 3: Inside the hospital 00:12:33 Stop 4: Rain, salt and food 00:15:25 Stop 5: Measuring the rising sea 00:18:32 Stop 6: The outer islands 00:22:06 Stop 7: The visa ballot 00:25:50 Stop 8: Saving a nation 00:28:54 Stop 9: Kioa, the island in Fiji PHOTOS (Wikimedia Commons) Government office building — lirneasia, CC BY 2.0 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... --- 👉 Subscribe Now    / @howtheylivetv   --- #livingintuvalu #tuvalu #traveldocumentary #howpeoplelive #howtheylive