Quality of life comparison

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

Health

be 41.1% less likely to be obese

In Niue, 66.9% of adults are obese as of 2024. In Barbados, that number is 39.4% of people as of 2024.

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have 75.0% more access to essential health services

Niue scores 44 out of 100 on the universal health coverage index as of 2021. Barbados scores 77 as of 2021.

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Basic Needs

be 11.6% less likely to have internet access

In Niue, approximately 79.6% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Barbados, about 70.4% do as of 2024.

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Expenditures

spend 30.8% less on healthcare

Niue spends 7.8% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2020. In Barbados, that number is 5.4% of GDP as of 2023.

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Geography

see 51.6% more coastline

Niue has a total of 64 km of coastline. In Barbados, that number is 97 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

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Barbados: At a glance

Barbados is a sovereign country in Central America/Caribbean, with a total land area of approximately 430 sq km. The island was uninhabited when first settled by the British in 1627. African slaves worked the sugar plantations established on the island until 1834 when slavery was abolished. The economy remained heavily dependent on sugar, rum, and molasses production through most of the 20th century. The gradual introduction of social and political reforms in the 1940s and 1950s led to complete independence from the UK in 1966. In the 1990s, tourism and manufacturing surpassed the sugar industry in economic importance.
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