Forgotten World (155): Niue

Countries do not get much smaller than Niue. The residents of the Pacific island of Niue are far outnumbered by their compatriots who have migrated to New Zealand. Home to fewer than 2,000 islanders, the self-governing coral atoll is trying to encourage some of the 20,000 overseas Niueans – many of them New Zealand-born – to return.
Niue operates in free association with New Zealand, its main source of aid and its biggest trading partner. New Zealand is obliged under the island’s constitution to provide “necessary economic and administrative assistance”. All Niueans are New Zealand citizens and can take up residency there.
Technology-savvy Niue has embraced the internet. It earns money from the sale of its suffix and in 2003 it became the first territory to offer a free wireless internet service to all residents.


 




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