Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in United States instead of Niue, you would:

Health

be 38.8% less likely to be obese

In Niue, 66.9% of adults are obese as of 2024. In United States, that number is 41.0% of people as of 2024.

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have 95.5% more access to essential health services

Niue scores 44 out of 100 on the universal health coverage index as of 2021. United States scores 86 as of 2021.

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Basic Needs

be 19.0% more likely to have internet access

In Niue, approximately 79.6% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In United States, about 94.7% do as of 2024.

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Expenditures

spend 2.1 times more on healthcare

Niue spends 7.8% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2020. In United States, that number is 16.7% of GDP as of 2023.

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Geography

see 311.3 times more coastline

Niue has a total of 64 km of coastline. In United States, that number is 19,924 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

Compare further: Niue vs. United States

Size Comparison · See true size
Niue is about 37,821 times smaller than United States.
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Moving from Niue to United States · OECD 2018
2 people moved from Niue to United States.
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United States: At a glance

United States (sometimes abbreviated US or USA) is a sovereign country in North America, with a total land area of approximately 9,147,593 sq km. Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the original 13 as the nation expanded across the North American continent and acquired a number of overseas possessions. The two most traumatic experiences in the nation's history were the Civil War (1861-65), in which a northern Union of states defeated a secessionist Confederacy of 11 southern slave states, and the Great Depression of the 1930s, an economic downturn during which about a quarter of the labor force lost its jobs. Buoyed by victories in World Wars I and II and the end of the Cold War in 1991, the US remains the world's most powerful nation state. Since the end of World War II, the economy has achieved relatively steady growth, low unemployment and inflation, and rapid advances in technology.
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