Quality of life comparison
If you lived in Missouri instead of Kiribati, you would:
Health
be 17.7% less likely to be obese
In Kiribati, 45.6% of adults are obese as of 2024. In Missouri, that number is 37.5% of people as of 2022.
Economy
make 22.0 times more money
Kiribati has a GDP per capita of $2,559 as of 2025, while in Missouri, the GDP per capita is $56,344 as of 2024.
be 2.2 times more likely to live below the poverty line
In Kiribati, 5.5% live below the poverty line as of 2023. In Missouri, however, that number is 12.1% as of 2023.
Sources: World Bank (2023–2025), World Health Organization (2024), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (PLACES) (2022), US Census Bureau (American Community Survey) (2023), Bureau of Economic Analysis (2024). How we calculate this
