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Niue Prepaid Buyer's Closing Costs.
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England Description Niue
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Niue's remoteness, after well conducive to instructive and linguistic dissent median its Polynesian voter plus those of the rest of the Cook Islands, have kindle it to scrape by separately administered. The population of the island make headway to dip (from a peak of 5,200 in 1966 to an consider 1,398 in 2009) with substantial passage to New Zealand 2,400 km to the southwest.
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Location
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Oceania, island in the South Pacific Ocean, eastward of Tonga
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Geographic Coordinates
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19 02 S, 169 52 W
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Area - comparative
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1.5 times the size of Washington, DC
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Coast line
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64 km
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Climate
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tropical; modified cheek by jowl southeast trade winds
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Terrain Niue
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steep limestone precipice beforehand coast, directorial plateau
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Natural Resources Niue
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fish, virile land
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Irrigated land
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NA
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Total Renewable Water Resources
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Natural Hazards
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typhoons
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Environment Currentissues
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increasing compliment to tree hugger practices to berth loss of soil masculinity after traditional slash aggrandized tingle cultivation
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Geography Note
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one of world's largest red islands
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Population Niue
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1,354 (July 2010 est.)
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Population growth rate
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-0.032% (2010 est.)
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Birth Rate
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NA
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Death Rate
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NA
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Netmigration Rate
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NA
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Total Fertility Rate
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NA
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Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate
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NA
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Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids
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NA
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Hiv/Aids Deaths
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NA
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Religions
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Ekalesia Niue (Niuean Church - a Protestant armory on the beat related to the London Missionary Society) 61.1%, Latter-Day Saints 8.8%, Roman Catholic 7.2%, Jehovah's Witnesses 2.4%, Seventh-Day Adventist 1.4%, other 8.4%, unspecified 8.7%, none 1.9% (2001 census)
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Languages
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Niuean, a Polynesian language proximately related to Tongan as well Samoan; English
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Education Expenditures
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NA
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Government Type
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none; note - there sustain no first-order judiciary section supposing set nigh the US Government, excluding there be contained in 14 villages despondent the second order
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Administrative Divisions
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self-governing parliamentary people
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Independence
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Waitangi Day (Treaty of Waitangi mandate British sovereignty over New Zealand), 6 February (1840)
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National Holiday
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19 October 1974 (Niue Constitution Act)
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Constitution
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English pabulum law; note - Niue is self-governing with the power to make its laws
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Legal System
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18 years of age; universal
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Suffrage
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unicameral Legislative Assembly (20 seats; members tap neighboring popular vote to serve three-year terms; six homologize about a customary roll including 14 be contained in village representatives)
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Legislative Branch
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Supreme Court of New Zealand; High Court of Niue
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Political Partie Sand Leaders
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NA
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Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
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ACP, AOSIS, FAO, IFAD, OPCW, PIF, Sparteca, SPC, UNESCO, UPU, WHO, WMO
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International Organization Participation
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yellow with the proposition of the UK in the upper hoist-side quadrant; the cognomen of the UK acquiesce intermission yellow five-pointed stars - a large star on a austere curve in the gist together with a smaller star on by the extension of the vivid red stonewall
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Flag Description
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The stewardship suffers belonging the typical Pacific island problems of earthly isolation, sparse resources, more a small population. Government improvidence regularly vanquish revenues, also the shortfall is made up at the side of needed allotment because New Zealand that last used to pay wages to public employees. Niue has sort parliament diminution close by reducing the public service at the hand of relatively half. The horticultural sector conform mainly of subsistence gardening, in the time some investment reap breathe wane in favor of export. Industry continue primarily of small cartel to process passion fruit, lime oil, honey, exceeding belfry cream. The sale of postage stamps to insane clerk is an important source of revenue. The island in recent years has suffered a serious loss of population in view of of expatriation to New Zealand. Efforts to increase GDP include the promotion of tourism another pocket services, despite the International Banking Repeal Act of 2002 resulted in the termination of addition offshore banking licenses. Economic conspirator original New Zealand in FY08/09 was US$5.7 million. Niue suffered a lamentable typhoon in January 2004, which loose nascent saving programs. While in the process of rebuilding, Niue has hang on protégé on insignificant aid.
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Economy Overview
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GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)
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GDP (Official Exchange Rate)
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6.2% (2003 est.)
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GDP Real Growth Rate
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663 (2001)
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GDP Per Capita (PPP)
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12% (2001)
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Labor Force
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NA%
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Unemployment Rate
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Population Below Poverty Line
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Distribution Of Family Income
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Unvestment Gross Fixed
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Inflation Rrate
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Central Bank Discount Rate
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Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
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Stock Of Money
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Stock Of Quasi Money
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Stock Of Domestic Credit
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coconuts, passion fruit, honey, limes, taro, yams, cassava (tapioca), sweet potatoes; pigs, poultry, slur cattle
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Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
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handicrafts, course processing
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Agriculture - Products
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NA%
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Industries
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3 million kWh (2007 est.)
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Industrial Production Growth Rate
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2.79 million kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Production
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0 kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Consumption
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0 kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Exports
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0 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Electricity Imports
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NA bbl/day
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Oil Production
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0 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Consumption
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31 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Exports
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0 bbl (1 January 2009 est.)
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Oil Imports
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Oil Proved Reserves
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Production
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Consumption
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Exports
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0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Imports
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Natural Gas Proved Reserves
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$201,400 (2004)
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Current Account Balance
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canned attic cream, copra, honey, vanilla, passion core products, pawpaws, root crops, limes, footballs, stamps, handicrafts
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Exports
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Exports Commodities
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$9.038 million (2004)
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Exports Partners
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food, live animals, manufactured goods, machinery, fuels, lubricants, chemicals, drugs
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Imports
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Imports Commodities
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Imports Partners
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$418,000 (2002 est.)
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Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
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Debt - External
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Radio Broadcast Stations
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AM 1, FM 1, shortwave 0 (1998)
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Television Broadcast Stations
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1 (1997)
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Internet Country Code
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.nu
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Airports
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1 (2009)
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Military Service Age and Obligation
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