Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in Niue instead of Costa Rica, you would:

Health

be 2.0 times more likely to be obese

In Costa Rica, 32.7% of adults are obese as of 2024. In Niue, that number is 66.9% of people as of 2024.

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have 45.7% less access to essential health services

Costa Rica scores 81 out of 100 on the universal health coverage index as of 2021. Niue scores 44 as of 2021.

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Expenditures

spend 13.5% more on healthcare

Costa Rica spends 6.9% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2023. In Niue, that number is 7.8% of GDP as of 2020.

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Geography

see 95.0% less coastline

Costa Rica has a total of 1,290 km of coastline. In Niue, that number is 64 km.

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Sources: The World Factbook (2020), World Health Organization (2024), United Nations SDG Indicators (2021), World Bank (2023). How we calculate this

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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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