Cook Islands
- Region
- Oceania · Polynesia
- Capital
- Avarua
- Population
- 7,592 (2025)
- Government
- parliamentary democracy
- Currencies
- Cook Islands dollar (CKD), New Zealand dollar (NZD)
- Official languages
- Cook Islands Māori, English
- Spoken languages
- English (official) 86.4%, Cook Islands Maori (Rarotongan) (official) 76.2%, other 8.3% (2011 est.)
- Written scripts
- Latin
- Area
- 236 km²
- Coastline
- Coastal
- UN member
- No
Political stability
86 / 100
Economic stability
59 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- fish, ships, garments, shellfish (2023)
- Key imports
- ships, refined petroleum, cars, plastic products, additive manufacturing machines (2023)
- Natural resources
- coconuts (copra)
- Primary route
- Feeder services to New Zealand and U.S. West Coast
- Secondary route
- Regional inter-island connections via Fiji and Tahiti
Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.