Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in Niue instead of Cook Islands, you would:

Health

be 10.6% less likely to be obese

In Cook Islands, 55.9% of adults are obese as of 2016. In Niue, that number is 50.0% of people as of 2016.

Economy

make 65.3% less money

Cook Islands has a GDP per capita of $16,700 as of 2016, while in Niue, the GDP per capita is $5,800 as of 2003.

Basic Needs

be 48.1% more likely to have internet access

In Cook Islands, approximately 54.0% of the population has internet access as of 2019. In Niue, about 80.0% do as of 2019.

Expenditures

spend 71.0% more on healthcare

Cook Islands spends 3.1% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2019. In Niue, that number is 5.3% of GDP as of 2019.

Geography

see 46.7% less coastline

Cook Islands has a total of 120 km of coastline. In Niue, that number is 64 km.

The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook.

Niue: At a glance

Niue is a sovereign country in Australia-Oceania, with a total land area of approximately 260 sq km. Niue's remoteness, as well as cultural and linguistic differences between its Polynesian inhabitants and those of the adjacent Cook Islands, has caused it to be separately administered by New Zealand. The population of the island continues to drop (from a peak of 5,200 in 1966 to an estimated 1,229 in 2013) with substantial emigration to New Zealand 2,400 km to the southwest.
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