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Environment - international agreements:

party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection

Geography - note:

the northern Cook Islands are seven low-lying, sparsely populated, coral atolls; the southern Cook Islands, where most of the population lives, consist of eight elevated, fertile, volcanic isles, including the largest, Rarotonga, at 67 sq km

People ::Cook Islands

Population:

11,870 (July 2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 224

Age structure:

0–14 years: 27.1% (male 1,704/female 1,508)

15–64 years: 63.7% (male 3,898/female 3,664)

65 years and over: 9.2% (male 540/female 556) (2009 est.)

Median age:

total: 30.5 years

male: 29.8 years

female: 31.1 years (2009 est.)

Population growth rate:

−3.302% (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 233

Birth rate:

16.18 births/1,000 population (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 131

Death rate: