Tokelau

By Vexen Crabtree 2013

Comments:
FB, LJ

Tokelau
Status	Dependency (Territory)
Sovereignty	New Zealand
Capital
Land Area
Location	Australasia, Polynesia
Groupings	Small Islands
Population
Life Expectancy
GNI
ISO3166-1 Codes	TK, TKL, 772₁
Internet Domain	.tk₂
Currency	Dollar (NZD)₃
Telephone	+690₄

1. Overview

“Originally settled by Polynesian emigrants from surrounding island groups, the Tokelau Islands were made a British protectorate in 1889. They were transferred to New Zealand administration in 1925. Referenda held in 2006 and 2007 to change the status of the islands from that of a New Zealand territory to one of free association with New Zealand did not meet the needed threshold for approval.”
CIA's The World Factbook (2013)₅

As a territory of New Zealand I do not have many specific statistics for this territory in its own right.

2. Religion and Beliefs

#buddhism #christianity #hinduism #islam #judaism

Data from the Pew Forum, a professional polling outfit, states that in 2010 the religious makeup of this country was as follows in the table below₆:

Christian	99%
Muslim	0.1%
Hindu	0.1%
Buddhist	0.1%
Folk Religion	0.1%
Jew	0.1%
Unaffiliated	0.1%

The CIA World Factbook has slightly different data, and states: Congregational Christian Church 70%, Roman Catholic 28%, other 2%. note: on Atafu, all Congregational Christian Church of Samoa; on Nukunonu, all Roman Catholic; on Fakaofo, both denominations, with the Congregational Christian Church predominant₇.

Links:

A List of All Religions and Belief Systems

Current edition: 2013 May 01
http://www.humantruth.info/tokelau.html
Parent page: Compare International Statistics by Region and Continent

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#buddhism #christianity #hinduism #islam #judaism

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References: (What's this?)

CIA
(2013) World Factbook. The USA Government's Central Intelligence Agency (USA CIA) publishes The World Factbook, and the online version is frequently updated.

Footnotes

International Standards Organisation (ISO) standard ISO3166-1, on www.iso.org, accessed 2013 May 01.^
Top level domains (TLDs) are managed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) on www.iana.org.^
According to ISO4217.^
According to ITU-T.^
CIA (2013). Https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/tl.html accessed 2014 Apr 27.^
Pew Forum (2012) publication "The Global Religious Landscape: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World´s Major Religious Groups as of 2010" (2012 Dec 18) accessed 2013 May 01.^
CIA (2013). Https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ar.html accessed 2014 Apr 27.^