Cook Islands

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
17,411 1
Urban
75.10% 1
Rural
24.90% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
19.9% 2
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
0.80% 5

These statistics are derived from the Vatican's official publication, Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022). The numbers may differ from data reported by other sources on this site.

Baptized Catholics
3,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
17.43
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
44
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
8
First Communions per Year
30
Confirmations per Year
31
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
180
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
148
Church Marriages per Year
4
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
3
Priests
4
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
4
Catholics per Priest
635
Parishes
15
Mission Stations (no resident priests)
11
  • 1 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition.
  • 2 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.
  • 3 United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Homicide Statistics 2015.
  • 4 Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2016.
  • 5 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.
  • 6 Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022).
  • 7 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.