Demographics of the Cook Islands
ethnicity
, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
A census is carried out every five years in the Cook Islands. The last census was carried out in 2021 and the next census will be carried out in 2026.[1]
Year | Pop. | ±% |
---|---|---|
1902 | 8,213 | — |
1906 | 8,518 | +3.7% |
1911 | 8,655 | +1.6% |
1916 | 8,805 | +1.7% |
1921 | 9,459 | +7.4% |
1926 | 10,082 | +6.6% |
1936 | 12,246 | +21.5% |
1945 | 14,088 | +15.0% |
1951 | 15,079 | +7.0% |
1961 | 18,378 | +21.9% |
1966 | 19,247 | +4.7% |
1971 | 21,322 | +10.8% |
1976 | 18,126 | −15.0% |
1981 | 17,743 | −2.1% |
1986 | 17,614 | −0.7% |
1996 | 19,103 | +8.5% |
2001 | 18,027 | −5.6% |
2006 | 19,342 | +7.3% |
2011 | 17,794 | −8.0% |
2016 | 17,434 | −2.0% |
Source: [2] |
Vital statistics
Births and deaths[3]
Year | Population | Live births | Deaths | Natural increase | Crude birth rate | Crude death rate | Rate of natural increase | TFR |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2001 | 18,027 | 315 | 88 | 227 | 21.0 | 2.9 | ||
2002 | 279 | 97 | 182 | |||||
2003 | 294 | 92 | 202 | |||||
2004 | 15,169 | 297 | 99 | 198 | ||||
2005 | 275 | 91 | 184 | |||||
2006 | 19,342 | 279 | 85 | 194 | 19.1 | 6.5 | 12.6 | 2.5 |
2007 | 296 | 84 | 212 | |||||
2008 | 261 | 56 | 205 | |||||
2009 | 255 | 67 | 188 | 12.6 | 3.2 | 9.4 | ||
2010 | 286 | 92 | 194 | 12.1 | 3.9 | 8.2 | ||
2011 | 19,300 | 262 | 72 | 190 | 17.8 | 4.9 | 12.9 | 2.6 |
2012 | 19,500 | 259 | 104 | 155 | 18.1 | 7.3 | 10.8 | |
2013 | 18,600 | 256 | 115 | 141 | 18.2 | 8.2 | 10.0 | |
2014 | 18,600 | 204 | 113 | 91 | 15.0 | 8.3 | 6.7 | |
2015 | 18,400 | 205 | 102 | 103 | 15.5 | 7.7 | 7.8 | |
2016 | 19,300 | 242 | 87 | 155 | 20.5 | 7.4 | 13.1 | 2.5 |
2017 | 19,500 | 222 | 93 | 129 | 14.2 | 6.0 | 8.3 | |
2018 | 20,200 | 239 | 123 | 116 | 15.0 | 7.7 | 7.3 | |
2019 | 20,200 | 225 | 105 | 120 | 13.2 | 6.1 | 7.0 | |
2020 | 18,500 | 248 | 125 | 123 | 13.9 | 7.0 | 6.9 | |
2021 | 18,300 | 202 | 122 | 80 | 11.7 | 7.1 | 4.7 | |
2022 | 19,200 | 219 | 116 | 103 | 14.0 | 7.4 | 6.6 |
Structure of the population
Population by Sex and Age Group (Census 01.XII.2016): [4]
Age Group | Male | Female | Total | % |
---|---|---|---|---|
Total | 8 520 | 8 914 | 17 434 | 100 |
0–4 | 710 | 644 | 1 354 | 7.77 |
5–9 | 768 | 733 | 1 501 | 8.61 |
10–14 | 745 | 696 | 1 441 | 8.27 |
15–19 | 664 | 711 | 1 375 | 7.89 |
20–24 | 569 | 656 | 1 225 | 7.03 |
25–29 | 541 | 612 | 1 153 | 6.61 |
30–34 | 482 | 595 | 1 077 | 6.18 |
35–39 | 483 | 533 | 1 016 | 5.83 |
40–44 | 520 | 601 | 1 121 | 6.43 |
45–49 | 599 | 625 | 1 224 | 7.02 |
50–54 | 642 | 623 | 1 265 | 7.26 |
55–59 | 521 | 522 | 1 043 | 5.98 |
60–64 | 405 | 429 | 834 | 4.78 |
65-69 | 363 | 333 | 696 | 3.99 |
70-74 | 234 | 248 | 482 | 2.76 |
75-79 | 159 | 194 | 353 | 2.02 |
80+ | 115 | 159 | 274 | 1.57 |
Age group | Male | Female | Total | Percent |
0–14 | 2 223 | 2 073 | 4 296 | 24.64 |
15–64 | 5 426 | 5 907 | 11 333 | 65.01 |
65+ | 871 | 934 | 1 805 | 10.35 |
Religion
The Cook Islands are majority-
Roman Catholics, followed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Non-Christian faiths including Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam have small followings primarily by non-indigenous inhabitants.[5][6]
Ethnic groups
The
Papa'a (Europeans
), and those of Asian descent.
Ethnic group[9] | Population (2006) | Population (2016) | Percent | Change |
---|---|---|---|---|
Cook Islands Māori | 14,938 | 11,575 | 78.2 | |
Part Cook Islands Māori | 1,045 | 1,128 | 7.62 | |
Other | 1,349 | 2,099 | 14.18 | |
Cook Islands, Total | 17,332 | 14,802 | 100 |
CIA World Factbook demographic statistics
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The following demographic statistics are from the
CIA World Factbook, unless otherwise indicated.[5]
- Population
- 8,128
- Age structure (2022 est.)
- 0–14 years: 18.69% (male 797/female 722)
- 15–24 years: 13.9% (male 606/female 524)
- 25–54 years: 37.66% (male 1,595/female 1,634)
- 55–64 years: 15.69% (male 711/female 564)
- 65 years and over: 14.74% (male 584/female 614)
- Population growth rate
- -2.39%
- Birth rate
- 12.55 births/1,000 population
- Death rate
- 9.1 deaths/1,000 population
- Infant mortality rate
- Total: 15.93 deaths/1,000 live births
- Male: 20.02 deaths/1,000 live births
- Female: 11.62 deaths/1,000 live births
- Life expectancy at birth
- Total population: 77.14 years
- Male: 74.32 years
- Female: 80.11 years (2022 est.)
- Total fertility rate
- 2.07 children born/woman
- Nationality
- Cook Islander(s) (Noun)
- Cook Islander (Adjective)
- Ethnic groups
- Cook Island Maori (Polynesian) 81.3%
- part Cook Island Maori 6.7%
- Other 11.9%
- Religions
- Protestant62.8%
- Cook Islands Christian Church 49.1%
- Seventh-day Adventist7.9%,
- Assemblies of God 3.7%
- Apostolic Church2.1%),
- Roman Catholic17%
- Mormon4.4%,
- Other 8%
- None 5.6%
- No response 2.2%
- Languages
- English (official) 86.4%
- Rarotongan) (official) 76.2%
- Other 8.3%
References
- ^ "Census - Cook Islands - Ministry of Finance and Economic Management". Archived from the original on 2017-10-24. Retrieved 2016-06-13.
- ^ "Census 2016 - Cook Islands - Ministry of Finance and Economic Management". www.mfem.gov.ck.
- ^ "VITAL STATISTICS AND POPULATION ESTIMATES MARCH QUARTER 2020" (PDF). MINISTRY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-11-16. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
- ^ "UNSD — Demographic and Social Statistics". unstats.un.org. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
- ^ a b "Australia-Oceania ::: COOK ISLANDS". CIA The World Factbook. 27 April 2023.
- ^ ISBN 9789820200234.
- ^ "Te Reo Maori Act 2003". Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute. Retrieved 2019-01-20.
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2020). "Pukapuka". Glottolog 4.2.1. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ "2016 Cook Islands census" (PDF). mfem.gov.ck. 2016. p. 18. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 October 2020. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
- ^ "Demographic Yearbook, Population by age, sex and urban/rural residence: latest available year, 2005–2014" (PDF). UN Data. United Nations. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-12-23. Retrieved 4 December 2015.