Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Tennessee instead of Nauru, you would:

Health

be 46.9% less likely to be obese

In Nauru, 71.4% of adults are obese as of 2024. In Tennessee, that number is 37.9% of people as of 2022.

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Economy

make 4.1 times more money

Nauru has a GDP per capita of $14,640 as of 2025, while in Tennessee, the GDP per capita is $60,177 as of 2024.

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Sources: World Health Organization (2024), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (PLACES) (2022), World Bank (2025), Bureau of Economic Analysis (2024). How we calculate this

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