nt: unnamed location near Mutalau settlement 68 m

Natural resources:
fish, arable land

Land use:
arable land: 15.38%
permanent crops: 11.54%
other: 73.08% (2001)

Irrigated land:
NA sq km

Natural hazards:
typhoons

Environment - current issues:
increasing attention to conservationist practices to counter loss
of soil fertility from traditional slash and burn agriculture

Environment - international agreements:
party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto
Protocol, Desertification
signed, but not ratified: Law of the Sea

Geography - note:
one of world's largest coral islands

People Niue

Population:
2,156 (July 2004 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: NA
15-64 years: NA
65 years and over: NA (2004 est.)

Population growth rate:
0.01% (2004 est.)

Birth rate:
NA births/1,000 population (2004 est.)

Death rate:
NA deaths/1,000 population (2004 est.)

Net migration rate:
NA migrant(s)/1,000 population (2004 est.)

Sex ratio:
NA (2004 est.)

Infant mortality rate:
total: NA
male: NA
female: NA (2004 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: NA years
male: NA years
female: NA years (2004 est.)

Total fertility rate:
NA children born/woman (2004 est.)

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
NA

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
NA

HIV/AIDS - deaths:
NA

Nationality:
noun: Niuean(s)
adjective: Niuean

Ethnic groups:
Polynesian (with some 200 Europeans, Samoans, and Tongans)

Religions:
Ekalesia Niue (Niuean Church - a Protestant church closely related
to the London Missionary Society) 75%, Latter-Day Saints 10%, other
15% (mostly Roman Catholic, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-Day
Adventist)

Languages:
Niuean, a Polynesian language closely related to Tongan and Samoan;
English

Literacy:
definition: NA
total population: 95%
male: NA
female: NA

Government Niue

Country name:
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Niue
former: Savage Island

Dependency status:
self-governing in free association with New Zealand since 1974;
Niue fully responsible for internal affairs; New Zealand retains
responsibility for external affairs and defense; however, these
responsibilities confer no rights of control and are only exercised
at the request of the Government of Niue

Government type:
self-governing parliamentary d