ACOG - Cook Islands  - IBM

Geography

Location: Oceania, group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about one-half of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand

Area:
total area: 240 sq km
land area: 240 sq km
comparative area: slightly less than 1.3 times the size of Washington, DC

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 120 km


People

Population: 19,343 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years:
15-64 years:
65 years and over:

Population growth rate: 1.13% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 23.05 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 5.2 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -6.53 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 24.7 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 71.14 years
male: 69.2 years
female: 73.1 years

Total fertility rate: 3.27 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Polynesian (full blood) 81.3%, Polynesian and European 7.7%, Polynesianand other 7.7%, European 2.4%, other 0.9%

Religions: Christian (majority of populace members of Cook Islands Christian Church)

Languages: English (official), Maori

Literacy: NA%
total population:
male:
female:


Government

Names:
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Cook Islands

Type: self-governing parliamentary government in free association with New Zealand; Cook Islands is fully responsible for internal affairs; New Zealandretains responsibility for external affairs, in consultation with the CookIslands

Capital: Avarua

Independence: none (became self-governing in free association with New Zealand on4 August 1965 and has the right at any time to move to full independenceby unilateral action)

Constitution: 4 August 1965


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $57 million

National product real growth rate:

National product per capita: $3,000

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 6.2%

Unemployment rate:

Electricity:
capacity: 14,000 kW
production: 21 million kWh
consumption per capita: 741 kWh



Olympic Factoid
The volunteer staff of the 1996 Olympic Games totaled 50,152. They worked an estimated 850,000 shifts.