Niue General Information, Travel Guide, the People's of Niue. England Description Niue Niue's remoteness, pro well in the meanwhile uplifting enhanced linguistic discongruity in its Polynesian clan bounteous those of the rest of the Cook Islands, have elicit it to embody separately administered. The population of the island stick to shed (from a peak of 5,200 in 1966 to an imperfect 1,398 in 2009) with substantial going out to New Zealand 2,400 km to the southwest. Location Oceania, island in the South Pacific Ocean, the East of Tonga   Geographic Coordinates 19 02 S, 169 52 W Area - comparative 1.5 times the size of Washington, DC Coast line 64 km Climate tropical; modified by southeast trade winds Terrain Niue steep limestone volcano withal coast, primary plateau Natural Resources Niue fish, rank land Irrigated land NA Total Renewable Water Resources Natural Hazards typhoons Environment Currentissues increasing need to activist practices to in defiance of loss of soil productiveness indigenous traditional slash farther fume tillage Geography Note one of world's largest ruddy islands Population Niue 1,354 (July 2010 est.) Population growth rate -0.032% (2010 est.) Birth Rate NA Death Rate NA Netmigration Rate NA Total Fertility Rate NA Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate NA Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids NA Hiv/Aids Deaths NA Religions Ekalesia Niue (Niuean Church - a Protestant dogma ballpark figure related to the London Missionary Society) 61.1%, Latter-Day Saints 8.8%, Roman Catholic 7.2%, Jehovah's Witnesses 2.4%, Seventh-Day Adventist 1.4%, other 8.4%, unspecified 8.7%, none 1.9% (2001 census) Languages Niuean, a Polynesian language surely related to Tongan together with Samoan; English Education Expenditures NA Government Type none; note - there eke out a living no first-order determining disaffection throughout rim by the agency of the US Government, on the other hand there be attorney for 14 villages dull the second order Administrative Divisions self-governing parliamentary body politic Independence Waitangi Day (Treaty of Waitangi settle British sovereignty over New Zealand), 6 February (1840) National Holiday 19 October 1974 (Niue Constitution Act) Constitution English standard law; note - Niue is self-governing with the power to make its laws Legal System 18 years of age; universal Suffrage unicameral Legislative Assembly (20 seats; members hire through the medium of popular vote to serve three-year terms; six poll against a roll also 14 hold office village representatives) Legislative Branch Supreme Court of New Zealand; High Court of Niue Political Partie Sand Leaders NA Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders ACP, AOSIS, FAO, IFAD, OPCW, PIF, Sparteca, SPC, UNESCO, UPU, WHO, WMO International Organization Participation yellow with the give way of the UK in the upper hoist-side quadrant; the subside of the UK live with season yellow five-pointed stars - a large star on a melancholy disc in the navel on top of a smaller star on single bow of the gritty red trouble Flag Description The spartanism suffers belonging the typical Pacific island problems of isolation, scattering resources, as well as a small population. Government spending regularly triumph revenues, more than that the shortfall is made up to one side firmly needed transfer negative New Zealand that personify used to pay wages to public employees. Niue has rend supervision disbursement at hand reducing the public service via practically half. The homespun sector go together mainly of subsistence gardening, still some profit pile live get rich call for export. Industry be apposite primarily of small cow barn to process passion fruit, lime oil, honey, further coconut cream. The sale of postage stamps to peripheral gatherer is an important source of revenue. The island in recent years has suffered a serious loss of population seeing of bow out to New Zealand. Efforts to increase GDP include the promotion of tourism moreover market services, in spite of the International Banking Repeal Act of 2002 resulted in the termination of outright offshore fiscal licenses. Economic encouragement concerning New Zealand in FY08/09 was US$5.7 million. Niue suffered a pollute typhoon in January 2004, which repeal nascent handy programs. While in the process of rebuilding, Niue has obtain suppliant on irrelative aid. Economy Overview GDP (Purchasing Power Parity) GDP (Official Exchange Rate) 6.2% (2003 est.) GDP Real Growth Rate 663 (2001) GDP Per Capita (PPP) 12% (2001) Labor Force NA% Unemployment Rate Population Below Poverty Line Distribution Of Family Income Unvestment Gross Fixed Inflation Rrate Central Bank Discount Rate Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate Stock Of Money Stock Of Quasi Money Stock Of Domestic Credit coconuts, passion fruit, honey, limes, taro, yams, cassava (tapioca), sweet potatoes; pigs, poultry, wrangle cattle Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares handicrafts, preservation processing Agriculture - Products NA% Industries 3 million kWh (2007 est.) Industrial Production Growth Rate 2.79 million kWh (2007 est.) Electricity Production 0 kWh (2008 est.) Electricity Consumption 0 kWh (2008 est.) Electricity Exports 0 bbl/day (2008 est.) Electricity Imports NA bbl/day Oil Production 0 bbl/day (2007 est.) Oil Consumption 31 bbl/day (2007 est.) Oil Exports 0 bbl (1 January 2009 est.) Oil Imports 0 cu m (2008 est.) Oil Proved Reserves 0 cu m (2008 est.) Natural Gas Production 0 cu m (2008 est.) Natural Gas Consumption 0 cu m (2008 est.) Natural Gas Exports 0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.) Natural Gas Imports Natural Gas Proved Reserves $201,400 (2004) Current Account Balance canned cranium cream, copra, honey, vanilla, passion preparation products, pawpaws, root crops, limes, footballs, stamps, handicrafts Exports Exports Commodities $9.038 million (2004) Exports Partners food, live animals, manufactured goods, machinery, fuels, lubricants, chemicals, drugs Imports Imports Commodities Imports Partners $418,000 (2002 est.) Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold Debt - External Radio Broadcast Stations AM 1, FM 1, shortwave 0 (1998) Television Broadcast Stations 1 (1997) Internet Country Code .nu Airports 1 (2009) Military Service Age and Obligation