Quality of life comparison
compared to
If you lived in Virginia instead of Nauru, you would:
Health
be 50.6% less likely to be obese
In Nauru, 71.4% of adults are obese as of 2024. In Virginia, that number is 35.3% of people as of 2022.
Economy
make 4.7 times more money
Nauru has a GDP per capita of $14,640 as of 2025, while in Virginia, the GDP per capita is $69,111 as of 2024.
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
