Promote:
Your guide to exporting from and investing in the Cook Islands.
Find market information, understand requirements and connect with the organizations that can help.
Export from the Cook Islands
What the Cook Islands sells and who buys it, the trade agreements, the steps to export and the organizations that help exporters.
Invest in the Cook Islands
The economy at a glance, what to check before you set up, the steps and the organizations that help investors.
Foreign direct investment inflows
US$3.41 million
Source: UNCTADstat, foreign direct investment flows and stock (opens in a new tab) · as of 2026
Find public support
The public and membership bodies that help companies, grouped by what you need, each linking to its own site.
Organizations in this guide
13
Promote:Cook Islands is an independent guide by Promote:Global, not an official government portal. The organizations named here are independent public and membership bodies, not Promote:Global partners, and every link goes to their own site.
Cook Islands at a glance
PopulationEstimate
17,300
The resident population was an estimated 17,300 in the June quarter 2025; the total estimate of 25,900 includes visitors.
Source: Cook Islands Statistics Office, population estimates, June 2025 (opens in a new tab) · as of June quarter 2025
GDP
GDP at current prices was NZD 684.2 million in 2024, the Statistics Office reports.
Source: Cook Islands Statistics Office, GDP annual 2024 (opens in a new tab) · as of 2024
GDP per person
GDP per person was NZD 25,351 in 2023, the Statistics Office home page reports.
Source: Cook Islands Statistics Office, home page (opens in a new tab) · as of 2023
Real GDP growth
7.2%
Real GDP growth was 7.2 percent in 2024, at constant 2016 prices, the Statistics Office reports.
Source: Cook Islands Statistics Office, GDP annual 2024 (opens in a new tab) · as of 2024
Inflation
1.3%
Consumer prices were 1.34 percent higher in the December quarter 2025 than a year earlier, the Statistics Office reports.
Source: Cook Islands Statistics Office, consumer price index report, December 2025 (opens in a new tab) · as of December quarter 2025
Turn this guide into your Cook Islands project.
Use Promote:Global to explore markets, understand requirements and organize your next steps.
Free to start. No card required.
Already have an account? Sign in
Facts read from public sources, with an editorial cut-off of November 1, 2026. Nothing here is investment, legal, tax or sanctions advice. Check current status with the organization before you rely on it.