Quality of life comparison

compared to

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

Health

be 53.8% less likely to be obese

In Niue, 50.0% of adults are obese as of 2016. In Barbados, that number is 23.1% of people as of 2016.

Economy

make 2.2 times more money

Niue has a GDP per capita of $5,800 as of 2003, while in Barbados, the GDP per capita is $12,900 as of 2020.

be 15.8% less likely to be unemployed

In Niue, 12.0% of adults are unemployed as of 2001. In Barbados, that number is 10.1% as of 2017.

Expenditures

spend 18.9% more on healthcare

Niue spends 5.3% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2019. In Barbados, that number is 6.3% of GDP as of 2019.

Geography

see 51.6% more coastline

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

The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook.

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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