Tokelau
By Vexen Crabtree 2013
| 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 |
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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:
Current edition: 2013 May 01
http://www.humantruth.info/tokelau.html
Parent page: Compare International Statistics by Region and Continent
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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.^
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