Cook Islands

Capital: Avarua                Land area: 237 km²                Region: Polynesia

The Cook Islands comprises 15 islands and is surrounded by American Samoa and Niue to the west, Kiribati to the north and French Polynesia to the east.

Census & Surveys
2024Household Income and Expenditure Survey

News & Publications

Gender and the Pacific in numbers: Open data visualisation contest launches with $15k in prizes

May 6, 2024
Youth, students and data specialists alike are invited to ‘breathe life’ into Pacific gender statistics through open data and data visualisation in the 2024 Pacific Dataviz Challenge—competing for a share of $15,000 in prizes supported by SPC and the Government of New Caledonia.

‘Sans frontières’ births, deaths, marriages: Cross-agency, cross-border data-sharing advocated in SPC report

May 5, 2024
Landmark research on the potential to share news of births, deaths and other life events across national agencies and borders has been shared by the Pacific Community, charting a new frontier for civil registration and vital statistics ahead of a major conference in the field.

Cook Islands births, deaths, marriages should be recorded digitally, advocates SPC-led report

April 23, 2024
The Pacific Community (SPC) and Cook Islands government collaborated on this work with support from the Vital Strategies–Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Grants Program.

Pacific statistical research and ‘innovative experiments’ proposals sought by 26 April in SPC–World Bank initiative

April 18, 2024
Stakeholders in Pacific statistics and development are invited to put forward proposals for statistical innovation and research that seeks to improve welfare data collection and accessibility in the region, with financing for a range of projects available.

Population Pyramid

PDH.stat datasets