Population: 2,112 (July 1989), growth rate - 6.6% (1989)

Birth rate: NA births/1,000 population (1989)

Death rate: NA deaths/1,000 population (1989)

Net migration rate: NA migrants/1,000 population (1989)

Infant mortality rate: NA deaths/1,000 live births (1989)

Life expectancy at birth: NA years male, NA years female (1989)

Total fertility rate: NA children born/woman (1989)

Nationality: noun--Niuean(s); adjective--Niuean

Ethnic divisions: Polynesian, with some 200 Europeans, Samoans, and Tongans

Religion: 75% Ekalesia Nieue (Niuean Church)--a Christian Protestant church closely related to the London Missionary Society, 10% Mormon, 5% Roman Catholic, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-Day Adventist

Language: Polynesian tongue closely related to Tongan and Samoan; English

Literacy: NA%, but education compulsory between 5 and 14 years of age

Labor force: 1,000 (1981 est.); most work on family plantations; paid work exists only in government service, small industry, and the Niue Development Board

Organized labor: NA

NOTE: The information regarding Niue on this page is re-published from the 1989 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Niue People 1989 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Niue People 1989 should be addressed to the CIA.