从这段话说明，托克劳自然情况没法承载太多人，都跑新西兰、萨摩亚生存了，没法独立。
According to the 2016 Tokelau Census, Tokelau has a de jure usually resident population of 1,499 people. The census shows a 6.2% increase in the de jure usually resident population between 2011 and 2016.[69]
The nationals of Tokelau are called Tokelauans, and the major ethnic group is Polynesian; it has no recorded minority groups. About 84% of inhabitants are of wholly or partly Tokelauan ethnicity; people of Samoan ethnicity make up 6.7% of the population, and Tuvaluans 2.8%.[70] The main language - spoken by over 90% of inhabitants - is Tokelauan, but almost 60% also speak English.
The less than 1,500 Polynesian inhabitants live in three villages. Their isolation and lack of resources greatly limits economic development and confines agriculture to the subsistence level. The very limited natural resources and overcrowding are contributing to emigration to New Zealand and Samoa. In the 2013 New Zealand census, more than 7,000 people identified as Tokelauan, almost five times as many as live in Tokelau itself.[71] Depletion of tuna has made fishing for food more difficult.
A significant proportion (44.9% in 2016) of the population were born overseas, mostly in Samoa (15.3% of total population) and New Zealand (11.5%).[8]
While slightly more females than males live on Atafu and Fakaofo, males make up 57% of Nukunonu residents.[72] Only 9% of Tokelauans aged 40 or more have never been married.[73] One-quarter of the population were born overseas; almost all the rest live on the same atoll they were born on.[74] Most households own five or more pigs.[75]
Despite its low income, Tokelau has a life expectancy of 69 years, comparable with other Oceania islands.[76]
