Field Listing :: People - note

This entry includes miscellaneous demographic information of significance not included elsewhere.

Country	People - note

Cook Islands	2001 census counted a resident population of 15,017

Cuba	illicit emigration is a continuing problem; Cubans attempt to depart the island and enter the US using homemade rafts, alien smugglers, direct flights, or falsified visas; Cubans also use non-maritime routes to enter the US including direct flights to Miami and over-land via the southwest border

Papua New Guinea

the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea is one of the most heterogeneous in the world; PNG has several thousand separate communities, most with only a few hundred people; divided by language, customs, and tradition, some of these communities have engaged in low-scale tribal conflict with their neighbors for millennia; the advent of modern weapons and modern migrants into urban areas has greatly magnified the impact of this lawlessness

Rwanda	Rwanda is the most densely populated country in Africa

Trinidad and Tobago	in 2007, the government of Trinidad and Tobago estimated the population to be 1.3 million

Turks and Caicos Islands	destination and transit point for illegal Haitian immigrants bound for the Turks and Caicos Islands, The Bahamas, and the US