Quality of life comparison

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

Health

be 86.1% less likely to be obese

In Niue, 66.9% of adults are obese as of 2024. In China, that number is 9.3% of people as of 2024.

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have 84.1% more access to essential health services

Niue scores 44 out of 100 on the universal health coverage index as of 2021. China scores 81 as of 2021.

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Expenditures

spend 23.8% less on healthcare

Niue spends 7.8% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2020. In China, that number is 5.9% of GDP as of 2023.

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Geography

see 226.6 times more coastline

Niue has a total of 64 km of coastline. In China, that number is 14,500 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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China: At a glance

China (sometimes abbreviated PRC) is a sovereign country in East/Southeast Asia, with a total land area of approximately 9,326,410 sq km. For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. After World War II, the communists under MAO Zedong established an autocratic socialist system that, while ensuring China's sovereignty, imposed strict controls over everyday life and cost the lives of tens of millions of people. After 1978, MAO's successor DENG Xiaoping and other leaders focused on market-oriented economic development and by 2000 output had quadrupled. For much of the population, living standards have improved dramatically and the room for personal choice has expanded, yet political controls remain tight. Since the early 1990s, China has increased its global outreach and participation in international organizations.
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