Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in Australia instead of Niue, you would:

Health

be 54.3% less likely to be obese

In Niue, 66.9% of adults are obese as of 2024. In Australia, that number is 30.6% of people as of 2024.

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have 97.7% more access to essential health services

Niue scores 44 out of 100 on the universal health coverage index as of 2021. Australia scores 87 as of 2021.

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Basic Needs

be 20.8% more likely to have internet access

In Niue, approximately 79.6% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Australia, about 96.1% do as of 2024.

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Expenditures

spend 33.3% more on healthcare

Niue spends 7.8% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2020. In Australia, that number is 10.4% of GDP as of 2023.

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Geography

see 402.5 times more coastline

Niue has a total of 64 km of coastline. In Australia, that number is 25,760 km.

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Sources: The World Factbook (2020–2021), World Health Organization (2024), United Nations SDG Indicators (2021), World Bank (2023–2024). How we calculate this

Compare further: Niue vs. Australia

Size Comparison · See true size
Niue is about 29,774 times smaller than Australia.
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Moving from Niue to Australia · OECD 2019
2 people moved from Niue to Australia.
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Australia: At a glance

Australia is a sovereign country in Australia-Oceania, with a total land area of approximately 7,682,300 sq km. Prehistoric settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia at least 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession of the east coast in the name of Great Britain (all of Australia was claimed as British territory in 1829 with the creation of the colony of Western Australia). Six colonies were created in the late 18th and 19th centuries; they federated and became the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. The new country took advantage of its natural resources to rapidly develop agricultural and manufacturing industries and to make a major contribution to the Allied effort in World Wars I and II. In recent decades, Australia has become an internationally competitive, advanced market economy due in large part to economic reforms adopted in the 1980s and its location in one of the fastest growing regions of the world economy. Long-term concerns include aging of the population, pressure on infrastructure, and environmental issues such as floods, droughts, and bushfires. Australia is the driest inhabited continent on earth, making it particularly vulnerable to the challenges of climate change. Australia is home to 10 per cent of the world's biodiversity, and a great number of its flora and fauna exist nowhere else in the world. In January 2013, Australia assumed a nonpermanent seat on the UN Security Council for the 2013-14 term.
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