Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in Niue instead of New Zealand, you would:

Health

be 96.6% more likely to be obese

In New Zealand, 34.0% of adults are obese as of 2024. In Niue, that number is 66.9% of people as of 2024.

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have 48.2% less access to essential health services

New Zealand scores 85 out of 100 on the universal health coverage index as of 2021. Niue scores 44 as of 2021.

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Basic Needs

be 14.9% less likely to have internet access

In New Zealand, approximately 93.5% of the population has internet access as of 2024. In Niue, about 79.6% do as of 2021.

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Geography

see 99.6% less coastline

New Zealand has a total of 15,134 km of coastline. In Niue, that number is 64 km.

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

Compare further: New Zealand vs. Niue

Size Comparison · See true size
New Zealand is about 1,034 times bigger than Niue.
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Moving from New Zealand to Niue · UN DESA 2020
342 people born in New Zealand live in Niue.
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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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