The Cook Islands GDP Data & Country Report

The Cook Islands Country Report: GDP data and GDP forecasts; economic, financial and trade information; the best banks in The Cook Islands; country and population overview

DATA ON GDP AND ECONOMIC INFORMATION

Central bank

N/A

International Reserves

N/A

Gross Domestic Product - GDP

N/A

GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)

N/A

Real GDP growth

2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
2008	2009	2010	2011*
N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

*Estimate

GDP per capita - current prices

N/A

GDP per capita - PPP

N/A

GDP (PPP) - share of world total

1980	1990	2000	2010	2015**
N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

**Forecast

GDP - composition by sector

agriculture: 11.7%
industry: 9.9%
services: 78.5% (2008 estimate)

(Data released on February 2012)

Gross domestic expenditure on R&D (% of GDP)

N/A

(Data released on November 2010)

Inflation

2008	2009	2010	2011*
N/A(2008)	N/A	N/A	N/A

*Estimate

Unemployment rate

2008	2009	2010	2011*
N/A	N/A	N/A(2009)	N/A

*Estimate

Household saving rates

N/A

(Data released on November 2010)

Public debt (General government gross debt as a % of GDP)

2007	2008	2009	2010	2011*
N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

*Estimate

Public deficit (General government net lending/borrowing as a % of GDP)

2007	2008	2009	2010*	2011**
N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

*Estimate **Forecast

Government bond ratings

Standard & Poor's: BB/Negative/B

Moody's rating: N/A

Moody's outlook: N/A

(Foreign Currency Government Bond Ratings; Data last updated Nov 2010)

Market value of publicly traded shares

2007	2008	2009
N/A	N/A	N/A

Largest companies in The Cook Islands

N/A

DATA ON TRADE AND COMPETITIVENESS

Current account balance

N/A(After 2008)

Current account balance by percentage of GDP

N/A(2009)

Exports as percent of GDP

(Exports of goods and services)

N/A

(Data released on December 2010)

Shares in world total merchandising export

N/A(2007)

(Data were released in Nov 2011 and refer to 2010)

Shares in world total commercial services export

N/A(2007)

(Data were released in Nov 2011 and refer to 2010)

Total exports

N/A

Export commodities

copra, papayas, fresh and canned citrus fruit, coffee; fish; pearls and pearl shells

Total imports

US$81.04 million (2005)

Import commodities

foodstuffs, textiles, fuels, timber, capital goods

Exports - major partners

N/A

Imports - major partners

N/A

FDI inflows

2008	2009	2010
US$1 million	US$1 million(2009)	US$1 million(2009)

FDI outflows

2008	2009	2010
N/A	N/A	N/A

Value of cross-border M&A, by country of purchaser

2008	2009	2010	2011
N/A	US$50 million(2009)	N/A(2009)	N/A

Cross-border M&A deals worth over $3 billion completed in 2008

(Acquiring company, Acquired company, Country of the acquired company, Value of the deal)

N/A

(for a monthly update on M&A click here )

Cross-border M&A deals worth over $3 billion completed in 2010

(Acquiring company, Acquired company, Country of the acquired company, Value of the deal)

N/A(2008 estimate)

(for a monthly update on M&A click here )

Best countries for doing business

World Bank/IFC Doing Business Project

(Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business, from 1 – 183. A high ranking means the regulatory environment is more conducive to the starting and operation of a local firm.)

Overall ranking: N/A(2009) (2010)

Subcategories:

Starting a business: N/A(2009)

Registering property: N/A

Paying Taxes: N/A

Getting credit: N/A

Protecting investors: N/A

Trading across border: N/A

Enforcing Contracts: N/A

(2010)

Global competitiveness ranking
(ranking by country on a basis of 142, the first is the best)

N/A

(2011/2012)

Index of Economic Freedom

WSJ and Heritage Foundation

N/A (2009)

(100=totally free 0=totally repressed )

COUNTRY AND POPULATION OVERVIEW

Time zone

UTC-10

Total area

236 km² (2006)

Capital

Avarua (2009)

Currency

NZ dollars (NZD) (2009)

Government type

self-governing parliamentary democracy (2009)

Languages

English (official), Maori

Religions

Cook Islands Christian Church 55.9%, Roman Catholic 16.8%, Seventh-Day Adventists 7.9%, Church of Latter Day Saints 3.8%, other Protestant 5.8%, other 4.2%, unspecified 2.6%, none 3% (2001 census)

Total population

1980	1990	2000	2010*	2015**
N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

*Estimate **Forecast

Urban population as % of total population

1960	1980	2000	2009
N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Population median age

30.5 years (2006)

Population growth rate

N/A

Life expectancy

74 years (2007)

Adult literacy

95% (2000/2007)

% of population living on less than $2 a day

N/A

Inequality of wealth distribution (Gini index)

N/A

(0=perfect equality, 100=absolute inequality)

Freedom House rating

N/A

(1 represents the most free, 7 the least free)

Total telephone subscribers as % of population

74.08% (2010)

(sum of fixed telephone lines and mobile cellular subscribers)

Internet users as % of total population

35.71% (Data were released in 2011 and refer to 2010)

Cost of living index

(ranking by city on a basis of 214; the 1st is the most expensive and the 214th is the least expensive)

N/A

CO2 emissions
(Metric tons of CO2 per capita)

3.5567 (2008)

GLOBAL FINANCE RANKINGS AND AWARDS

ARTICLES AND COUNTRIES REPORTS FROM GLOBAL FINANCE ARCHIVE

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