_#_Climate: tropical; moderated by trade winds (April to November)
_#_Terrain: coral atolls enclosing large lagoons
_#_Natural resources: negligible
_#_Land use: arable land 0%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and pastures
0%; forest and woodland 0%; other 100%
_#_Environment: lies in Pacific typhoon belt
_#_Note: located 3,750 km southwest of Honolulu in the South Pacific
Ocean, about halfway between Hawaii and New Zealand
_*_People
_#_Population: 1,700 (July 1991), growth rate 0.0% (1991)
_#_Birth rate: NA births/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Death rate: NA deaths/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Net migration rate: NA migrants/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Infant mortality rate: NA deaths/1,000 live births (1991)
_#_Life expectancy at birth: NA years male, NA years female (1991)
_#_Total fertility rate: NA children born/woman (1991)
_#_Nationality: noun--Tokelauan(s); adjective--Tokelauan
_#_Ethnic divisions: all Polynesian, with cultural ties to Western
Samoa
_#_Religion: Congregational Christian Church 70%, Roman Catholic
28%, other 2%; on Atafu, all Congregational Christian Church of Samoa; on
Nukunonu, all Roman Catholic; on Fakaofo, both denominations, with the
Congregational Christian Church predominant
_#_Language: Tokelauan (a Polynesian language) and English
_#_Literacy: NA% (male NA%, female NA%)
_#_Labor force: NA
_#_Organized labor: NA
_*_Government
_#_Long-form name: none
_#_Type: territory of New Zealand
_#_Capital: none, each atoll has its own administrative center
_#_Administrative divisions: none (territory of New Zealand)
_#_Independence: none (territory of New Zealand)
_#_Constitution: administered under the Tokelau Islands Act of 1948,
as amended in 1970
_#_Legal system: British and local statutes
_#_National holiday: Waitangi Day (Treaty of Waitangi established
British sovereignty over New Zealand), 6 February (1840)
_#_Executive branch: administrator (appointed by the Minister of
Foreign Affairs in New Zealand), official secretary
_#_Legislative branch: Council of Elders (Taupulega) on each atoll
_#_Judicial branch: High Court in Niue, Supreme Court in New Zealand
_#_Leaders:
Chief of State--Queen ELIZABETH II (since 6 February 1952);
Head of Government--Administrator Neil WALTER; Official Secretary
M. NORRISH, Office of Tokelau Affairs
_#_Suffrage: NA
_#_Elections: NA
_#_Communists: probably none
_#_Member of: SPC
_#_Diplomatic representation: none (territory of New Zealand)
_#_Flag: the flag of New Zealand is used
_*_Economy
_#_Overview: Tokelau's small size, isolation, and lack of resources
greatly restrain economic development and confine agriculture to the
subsistence level. The people must rely on aid from New Zealand to
maintain public services, annual aid being substantially greater than
GDP. The principal sources of revenue come from sales of copra, postage
stamps, souvenir coins, and handicrafts. Money is also remitted to
families from relatives in New Zealand.
_#_GDP: $1.4 million, per capita $800; real growth rate NA%
(1988 est.)
_#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA%
_#_Unemployment rate: NA%
_#_Budget: revenues $430,830; expenditures $2.8 million, including
capital expenditures of $37,300 (FY87)
_#_Exports: $98,000 (f.o.b., 1983);
commodities--stamps, copra, handicrafts;
partners--NZ
_#_Imports: $323,400 (c.i.f., 1983);
commodities--foodstuffs, building materials, fuel;
partners--NZ
_#_External debt: none
_#_Industrial production: growth rate NA%
_#_Electricity: 200 kW capacity; 300,000 kWh produced,
180 kWh per capita (1990)
_#_Industries: small-scale enterprises for copra production, wood
work, plaited craft goods; stamps, coins; fishing
_#_Agriculture: coconuts, copra; basic subsistence crops--breadfruit,
papaya, bananas; pigs, poultry, goats
_#_Economic aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1970-88), $24 million
_#_Currency: New Zealand dollar (plural--dollars);
1 New Zealand dollar (NZ$) = 100 cents
_#_Exchange rates: New Zealand dollars (NZ$) per US$1--1.6798 (January
1991), 1.6750 (1990), 1.6711 (1989), 1.5244 (1988), 1.6886 (1987), 1.9088
(1986), 2.0064 (1985)
_#_Fiscal year: 1 April-31 March
_*_Communications
_#_Ports: none; offshore anchorage only
_#_Airports: none; lagoon landings by amphibious aircraft from Western
Samoa
_#_Telecommunications: telephone service between islands and to
Western Samoa
_*_Defense Forces
_#_Note: defense is the responsibility of New Zealand
_%_
_@_Tonga
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 748 km2; land area: 718 km2
_#_Comparative area: slightly more than four times the size of
Washington, DC
_#_Land boundaries: none
_#_Coastline: 419 km
_#_Maritime claims:
Continental shelf: no specific limits;
Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;