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% 6
    • 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 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.
    • 6 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.

    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