Quality of life comparison

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

Health

be 60.4% less likely to be obese

In Tokelau, 70.7% 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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Basic Needs

be 67.7% less likely to have internet access

In Tokelau, approximately 58.3% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Papua New Guinea, about 18.8% do as of 2024.

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Geography

see 51.0 times more coastline

Tokelau has a total of 101 km of coastline. In Papua New Guinea, that number is 5,152 km.

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

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Tokelau is about 38,570 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
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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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