Quality of life comparison

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

Health

be 75.5% less likely to be obese

In Niue, 66.9% of adults are obese as of 2024. In Thailand, that number is 16.4% of people as of 2024.

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have 86.4% more access to essential health services

Niue scores 44 out of 100 on the universal health coverage index as of 2021. Thailand scores 82 as of 2021.

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Basic Needs

be 14.2% more likely to have internet access

In Niue, approximately 79.6% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Thailand, about 90.9% do as of 2024.

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Expenditures

spend 41.8% less on healthcare

Niue spends 7.8% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2020. In Thailand, that number is 4.5% of GDP as of 2023.

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Geography

see 50.3 times more coastline

Niue has a total of 64 km of coastline. In Thailand, that number is 3,219 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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Thailand: At a glance

Thailand is a sovereign country in East/Southeast Asia, with a total land area of approximately 510,890 sq km. A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy. In alliance with Japan during World War II, Thailand became a US treaty ally in 1954 after sending troops to Korea and later fighting alongside the United States in Vietnam. Thailand since 2005 has experienced several rounds of political turmoil including a military coup in 2006 that ousted then Prime Minister THAKSIN Chinnawat, followed by large-scale street protests by competing political factions in 2008, 2009, and 2010. THAKSIN's youngest sister, YINGLAK Chinnawat, in 2011 led the Puea Thai Party to an electoral win and assumed control of the government. A blanket amnesty bill for individuals involved in street protests, altered at the last minute to include all political crimes - including all convictions against THAKSIN - triggered months of large-scale anti-government protests in Bangkok beginning in November 2013. In early May 2014 YINGLAK was removed from office and in late May 2014 the Royal Thai Army staged a coup against the caretaker government. Thailand has also experienced violence associated with the ethno-nationalist insurgency in Thailand's southern Malay-Muslim majority provinces. Since January 2004, thousands have been killed and wounded in the insurgency.
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