Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in New Zealand instead of Niue, you would:

Health

be 49.1% less likely to be obese

In Niue, 66.9% of adults are obese as of 2024. In New Zealand, that number is 34.0% of people as of 2024.

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have 93.2% more access to essential health services

Niue scores 44 out of 100 on the universal health coverage index as of 2021. New Zealand scores 85 as of 2021.

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Basic Needs

be 17.5% more likely to have internet access

In Niue, approximately 79.6% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In New Zealand, about 93.5% do as of 2024.

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Geography

see 236.5 times more coastline

Niue has a total of 64 km of coastline. In New Zealand, that number is 15,134 km.

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

Compare further: Niue vs. New Zealand

Size Comparison · See true size
Niue is about 1,034 times smaller than New Zealand.
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Moving from Niue to New Zealand · OECD 2015
3 people moved from Niue to New Zealand.
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New Zealand: At a glance

New Zealand (sometimes abbreviated NZ) is a sovereign country in Australia-Oceania, with a total land area of approximately 264,537 sq km. The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. That same year, the British began the first organized colonial settlement. A series of land wars between 1843 and 1872 ended with the defeat of the native peoples. The British colony of New Zealand became an independent dominion in 1907 and supported the UK militarily in both world wars. New Zealand's full participation in a number of defense alliances lapsed by the 1980s. In recent years, the government has sought to address longstanding Maori grievances.
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