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Niue

Self-governing state in free association with New ZealandISO NU / NIUNZD

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ANNUAL ECONOMIC SNAPSHOT

Population & economic scale

World Bank · dated observations

The most recent non-empty observations returned by the World Bank when this snapshot was collected. Read the year on each card: these are annual statistics, not live measurements.

No matching World Bank economy was found for Niue. Figures from another country or a regional aggregate have not been substituted.

Population

Not available

people

No observation in this snapshot

Definition, value & source

Total population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. The values shown are midyear estimates.

Collected: Oct 7, 2026 (11:25:46 UTC)
Dataset update reported by API: Jul 13, 2026; separate from the observation year

World Bank indicator ↗ · API record ↗

World Bank, World Development Indicators. CC BY 4.0. Underlying sources: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division; Statistical databases and publications from national statistical offices, National Statistical Offices (NSOs), uri: https://unstats.un.org/home/nso_sites/, publisher: National Statistical Offices; Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, Eurostat (ESTAT), uri: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database?node_code=earn_ses_monthly, publisher: Eurostat; Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), United Nations (UN), uri: https://unstats.un.org, publisher: UN Statistics Division

GDP

Not available

current US$

No observation in this snapshot

Definition, value & source

Gross domestic product is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period. It can be measured in three different ways: using either the expenditure approach, the income approach, or the production approach. This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars.

Collected: Oct 7, 2026 (11:25:52 UTC)
Dataset update reported by API: Jul 13, 2026; separate from the observation year

World Bank indicator ↗ · API record ↗

World Bank, World Development Indicators. CC BY 4.0. Underlying sources: Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)

GDP per capita

Not available

current US$ per person

No observation in this snapshot

Definition, value & source

Gross domestic product is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period. It can be measured in three different ways: using either the expenditure approach, the income approach, or the production approach. The core indicator has been divided by the general population to achieve a per capita estimate.This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars.

Collected: Oct 7, 2026 (11:25:52 UTC)
Dataset update reported by API: Jul 13, 2026; separate from the observation year

World Bank indicator ↗ · API record ↗

GDP and GDP per capita use current US dollars, without an inflation or purchasing-power-parity adjustment. Source years can differ. Missing data is not zero; earlier archive figures below are retained as a separate historical reference.

THE REFERENCE FILE

Niue at a glance

Archive edition 2025

These are historical reference facts from the 2025 World Factbook archive. Each estimate keeps its own period; an archive edition does not make every figure a measurement from that year.

Government type

parliamentary democracy

archive edition 2025Source ↗

Population

total: 1,815 (2024 est.) male: 877 (2024 est.) female: 938 (2024 est.)

2024 source periods; archive edition 2025Source ↗

Area

total : 260 sq km land: 260 sq km water: 0 sq km

archive edition 2025Source ↗

Real GDP (purchasing power parity)

$18.7 million (2021 est.) $19.9 million (2020 est.) $20.9 million (2019 est.)

2021, 2020, 2019 source periods; archive edition 2025Source ↗

Real GDP per capita

$11,100 (2021 est.) $11,800 (2020 est.) $12,400 (2019 est.) note: data are in 2009 dollars

2021, 2020, 2019, 2009 source periods; archive edition 2025Source ↗

Internet users

percent of population: 80% (2024 est.)

2024 source periods; archive edition 2025Source ↗

THE HISTORICAL REFERENCE LIBRARY

Explore the country in detail

25 sections · archive 2025

Browse the economy, population, resources and infrastructure. These archived descriptions keep their original wording and dates; they have not been updated to describe current conditions.

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Location

Oceania, island in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Tonga

archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗

Capital

name: Alofi geographic coordinates: 19 01 S, 169 55 W time difference: UTC-11 (6 hours behind Washington, DC, during Standard Time) etymology: a traditional name for an area of the island; became the name for the newly declared capital in the 20th century

archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗

Economic overview

upper-middle-income self-governing New Zealand territorial economy; environmentally fragile; massive emigration; post-pandemic tourism rebound; postage stamps, small-scale agricultural processing, and subsistence farming; most recent Asian Development Bank member

archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗

Natural resources

arable land, fish

archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗

Agricultural products

coconuts, taro, fruits, sweet potatoes, tropical fruits, yams, vegetables, lemons/limes, bananas, pork (2023) note: top ten agricultural products based on tonnage