se expenditures:
exchange rate conversion - $172 million, about 1% of GDP (1992)

@Niue

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Affiliation:
(free association with New Zealand)

@Niue, Geography

Location:
Oceania, Polynesia, 460 km east of Tonga in the South Pacific Ocean
Map references:
Oceania
Area:
total area:
260 sq km
land area:
260 sq km
comparative area:
slightly less than 1.5 times the size of Washington, DC
Land boundaries:
0 km
Coastline:
64 km
Maritime claims:
exclusive economic zone:
200 nm
territorial sea:
12 nm
International disputes:
none
Climate:
tropical; modified by southeast trade winds
Terrain:
steep limestone cliffs along coast, central plateau
Natural resources:
fish, arable land
Land use:
arable land:
61%
permanent crops:
4%
meadows and pastures:
4%
forest and woodland:
19%
other:
12%
Irrigated land:
NA sq km
Environment:
current issues:
NA
natural hazards:
subject to typhoons
international agreements:
signed, but not ratified - Law of the Sea
Note:
one of world's largest coral islands

@Niue, People

Population:
1,906 (July 1994 est.)
Population growth rate:
3.66% (1994 est.)
Nationality:
noun:
Niuean(s)
adjective:
Niuean
Ethnic divisions:
Polynesian (with some 200 Europeans, Samoans, and Tongans)
Religions:
Ekalesia Nieue (Niuean Church) 75% - a Protestant church closely
related to the London Missionary Society, Morman 10%, other 15%
(mostly Roman Catholic, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-Day Adventist)
Languages:
Polynesian closely related to Tongan and Samoan, English
Literacy:
total population:
NA%
male:
NA%
female:
NA%
Labor force:
1,000 (1981 est.)
by occupation:
most work on family plantations; paid work exists only in government
service, small industry, and the Niue Development Board

@Niue, Government

Names:
conventional long form:
none
conventional short form:
Niue
Digraph:
NE
Type:
self-governing territory in free association with New Zealand; Niue
fully responsible for internal affairs; New Zealand retains
responsibility for external affairs
Capital:
Alofi
Administrative divisions:
none
Independence:
19 October 1974 (became a self-governing territory in free association
with New Zealand on 19 October 1974)
National holiday:
Waitangi Day, 6 February (1840) (Treaty of Waitangi established
British sovereignty)
Constitution:
19 Octobe