Migration trends in the Cook Islands

Oceania

Cook Islands loses more people than it takes in: 20.3K emigrants against 4.1K immigrants. Net balance −16.2K — 0% of the country's population

Population

4.1K

Immigrants

20.3K

Emigrants

−16.2K

Outflow

Top corridors

The largest migration flows in the Cook Islands

Where people move to

1New Zealand

12.4K61.1%

2Australia

7.8K38.6%

3Fiji

330.2%

Cook Islands Diaspora

Where people come from

1New Zealand

2.7K66.5%

2Fiji

56813.9%

3Australia

45911.2%

Immigrants in the Cook Islands

Key moments

How migration has changed since 1990

1990

2.5K immigrants · 17.6K emigrants

Today

Since 1990: roughly the same number of foreign-born residents and roughly the same number of emigrants

Data source: International Migrant Stock 2024 (UN DESA, Population Division)

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