Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in Papua New Guinea instead of Niue, you would:

Health

be 58.2% less likely to be obese

In Niue, 66.9% of adults are obese as of 2024. In Papua New Guinea, that number is 28.0% of people as of 2024.

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have 31.8% less access to essential health services

Niue scores 44 out of 100 on the universal health coverage index as of 2021. Papua New Guinea scores 30 as of 2021.

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Basic Needs

be 76.4% less likely to have internet access

In Niue, approximately 79.6% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Papua New Guinea, about 18.8% do as of 2024.

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Expenditures

spend 63.2% less on healthcare

Niue spends 7.8% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2020. In Papua New Guinea, that number is 2.9% of GDP as of 2023.

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Geography

see 80.5 times more coastline

Niue has a total of 64 km of coastline. In Papua New Guinea, that number is 5,152 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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Papua New Guinea: At a glance

Papua New Guinea (sometimes abbreviated PNG) is a sovereign country in East/Southeast Asia, with a total land area of approximately 452,860 sq km. The eastern half of the island of New Guinea - second largest in the world - was divided between Germany (north) and the UK (south) in 1885. The latter area was transferred to Australia in 1902, which occupied the northern portion during World War I and continued to administer the combined areas until independence in 1975. A nine-year secessionist revolt on the island of Bougainville ended in 1997 after claiming some 20,000 lives.
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