Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in Sao Tome and Principe instead of Niue, you would:

Health

be 73.2% less likely to be obese

In Niue, 66.9% of adults are obese as of 2024. In Sao Tome and Principe, that number is 17.9% of people as of 2024.

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have 34.1% more access to essential health services

Niue scores 44 out of 100 on the universal health coverage index as of 2021. Sao Tome and Principe scores 59 as of 2021.

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Basic Needs

be 25.7% less likely to have internet access

In Niue, approximately 79.6% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Sao Tome and Principe, about 59.1% do as of 2024.

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Expenditures

spend 26.0% less on healthcare

Niue spends 7.8% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2020. In Sao Tome and Principe, that number is 5.8% of GDP as of 2023.

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Geography

see 3.3 times more coastline

Niue has a total of 64 km of coastline. In Sao Tome and Principe, that number is 209 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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Sao Tome and Principe: At a glance

Sao Tome and Principe is a sovereign country in Africa, with a total land area of approximately 964 sq km. Discovered and claimed by Portugal in the late 15th century, the islands' sugar-based economy gave way to coffee and cocoa in the 19th century - all grown with African plantation slave labor, a form of which lingered into the 20th century. While independence was achieved in 1975, democratic reforms were not instituted until the late 1980s. The country held its first free elections in 1991, but frequent internal wrangling between the various political parties precipitated repeated changes in leadership and two failed coup attempts in 1995 and 2003. In 2012, three opposition parties combined in a no confidence vote to bring down the majority government of former Prime Minister Patrice TROVOADA. The new government of Prime Minister Gabriel Arcanjo Ferreira DA COSTA is entirely composed of opposition party members with limited experience in governance. New oil discoveries in the Gulf of Guinea may attract increased attention to the small island nation.
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