International Rankings of Cook Islands 2024, country comparisons

This table lists the international rankings of Cook Islands, in all categories that are published in the CIA World Factbook, and those that we derived from them. Additional international rankings of Cook Islands, can be found in the main country ranks menu.
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Ranked Data	Rank	Value	Year
Communications
Broadband - fixed subscriptions - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	39	15.00	2018
Broadband - fixed subscriptions - total	188	2700	2018
Internet users - percent of population	54	64.80 %	2021
Internet users - total	215	11382	2021
Telephones - fixed lines - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	19	41.00	2021
Telephones - fixed lines - total subscriptions	196	7000	2021
Telephones - mobile cellular - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	60	100.00	2021
Telephones - mobile cellular - total subscriptions	212	17000	2021
Economy
Budget - expenditures	216	77.900 million US Dollars	2010
Budget - revenues	215	86.900 million US Dollars	2010
Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-)	13	3.00 % of GDP	N/A
Current account balance	71	26.670 million US Dollars	2005
Debt - external	193	141.000 million US Dollars	1996
Exchange rates	131	1.42	N/A
Exports	213	31.400 million US Dollars	2021
GDP (official exchange rate)	215	336.000 million US Dollars	2022
GDP - composition by sector of origin - agriculture	106	5.10 % of GDP	2010
GDP - composition by sector of origin - industry	153	12.70 % of GDP	2010
GDP - composition by sector of origin - services	23	82.10 % of GDP	2010
Imports	211	215.000 million US Dollars	2021
Industrial production growth rate	142	1.00 %	2002
Inflation rate (consumer prices)	129	2.20 %	2011
Labor force	216	6820 US Dollars	2001
Real GDP (purchasing power parity)	216	266.000 million US Dollars	2022
Real GDP growth rate	25	10.50 %	2022
Real GDP per capita	98	15600 US Dollars	2022
Taxes and other revenues	29	29.00 % of GDP	N/A
Unemployment rate	47	13.10 %	2005
Energy
Carbon dioxide emissions - from petroleum and other liquids	203	114000 metric tonnes of CO2	2019
Carbon dioxide emissions - total	204	114000	2019
Electricity - consumption	202	38.729 million kWh	2019
Electricity - installed generating capacity	200	18000 kWh	2020
Electricity - transmission/distribution losses	198	3.000 million kWh	2019
Electricity generation sources - fossil fuels	72	70.00 %	2020
Electricity generation sources - solar	1	30.00 %	2020
Petroleum - refined petroleum consumption	188	800 bbl/day	2019
Refined petroleum products - imports	205	611 bbl/day	2015
Environment
Land use - agricultural land	175	8	2018
Land use - arable land	127	4	2018
Land use - forest	20	65	2018
Land use - permanent crops	49	4	2018
Urbanization - rate of urbanization	139	0.52	N/A
Urbanization - urban population	57	76	2023
Geography
Area - land	214	236 sq km	N/A
Area - total	216	236 sq km	N/A
Coastline	152	120 km	N/A
Elevation - highest point	152	652 meters	N/A
Land use - agricultural land	175	8	2018
Land use - arable land	127	4	2018
Land use - forest	20	65	2018
Land use - permanent crops	49	4	2018
Population Density	182	33.64 Persons per sq km	N/A
Population
Alcohol consumption per capita - beer	38	4 liters of pure alcohol	2019
Alcohol consumption per capita - spirits	1	7 liters of pure alcohol	2019
Alcohol consumption per capita - total	1	13 liters of pure alcohol	2019
Alcohol consumption per capita - wine	31	2 liters of pure alcohol	2019
Birth rate	114	12.30 births/1,000 population	2023
Current health expenditure	83	3 % of GDP	2020
Currently married women (ages 15-49)	146	43 %	2023
Death rate	35	9.20 deaths/1,000 population	2023
Dependency ratios - elderly dependency ratio	65	17.40 %	N/A
Dependency ratios - potential support ratio	101	5.80 %	2021
Dependency ratios - total dependency ratio	96	53.80 %	N/A
Dependency ratios - youth dependency ratio	101	36.40 %	N/A
Education expenditures	40	5 % of GDP	2021
Gross reproduction rate	70	1.00 %	2023
Infant mortality rate - female	101	11.30 deaths/1,000 live births	N/A
Infant mortality rate - male	83	19.50 deaths/1,000 live births	N/A
Infant mortality rate - total	88	15.50 deaths/1,000 live births	2023
Life expectancy at birth - female	50	80 years	N/A
Life expectancy at birth - male	59	75 years	N/A
Life expectancy at birth - total population	56	77 years	2023
Median age - female	49	41 years	N/A
Median age - male	37	40 years	N/A
Median age - total	38	41 years	2023
Net migration rate	121	26.20 migrant(s)/1,000 population	N/A
Obesity - adult prevalence rate	2	55.90 %	2016
Physicians density	95	1.41 physicians/1,000 population	2014
Population	223	7939	2023
Population growth rate	184	2.31 %	2023
Sanitation facility access - total	112	1 % of population	2020
Sex ratio - 0-14 years	6	1.10 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - 15-64 years	16	1.07 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - 65 years and over	17	0.96 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - at birth	10	1.04 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - total population	13	1.06 male(s)/female	N/A
Total fertility rate	88	2.04 children born/woman	2023
Urbanization - rate of urbanization	139	0.52	N/A
Urbanization - urban population	57	76	2023
Transportation
Airports	115	10	2024
Merchant marine - total	66	190	2023
National air transport system - inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers	96	6.00	N/A
National air transport system - number of registered air carriers	27	1	2020
Roadways - paved	118	207 km	2018
Roadways - total	127	295 km	2018

*CALCULATED FIGURES are those that we calculated from data presented by the CIA World Factbook. For example, we calculated population density by dividing the total population by the land area, the electricity consumption per capita by dividing electricity consumption by the total population, etc.

NOTE: The information regarding Cook Islands on this page is re-published from the 2024 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Cook Islands 2024 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Cook Islands 2024 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.