Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in Antigua and Barbuda instead of Niue, you would:

Health

be 48.3% less likely to be obese

In Niue, 66.9% of adults are obese as of 2024. In Antigua and Barbuda, that number is 34.6% of people as of 2024.

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have 72.7% more access to essential health services

Niue scores 44 out of 100 on the universal health coverage index as of 2021. Antigua and Barbuda scores 76 as of 2021.

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Expenditures

spend 49.9% less on healthcare

Niue spends 7.8% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2020. In Antigua and Barbuda, that number is 3.9% of GDP as of 2023.

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Geography

see 2.4 times more coastline

Niue has a total of 64 km of coastline. In Antigua and Barbuda, that number is 153 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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Antigua and Barbuda: At a glance

Antigua and Barbuda is a sovereign country in Central America/Caribbean, with a total land area of approximately 442 sq km. The Siboney were the first people to inhabit the islands of Antigua and Barbuda in 2400 B.C., but Arawak Indians populated the islands when COLUMBUS landed on his second voyage in 1493. Early Spanish and French settlements were succeeded by an English colony in 1667. Slavery, established to run the sugar plantations on Antigua, was abolished in 1834. The islands became an independent state within the British Commonwealth of Nations in 1981.
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