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

Health

be 3.0 times more likely to be obese

In Vanuatu, 22.6% of adults are obese as of 2024. In Niue, that number is 66.9% of people as of 2024.

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Basic Needs

be 13.9% more likely to have internet access

In Vanuatu, approximately 69.9% of the population has internet access as of 2022. In Niue, about 79.6% do as of 2021.

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Expenditures

spend 89.3% more on healthcare

Vanuatu spends 4.1% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2023. In Niue, that number is 7.8% of GDP as of 2020.

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Geography

see 97.5% less coastline

Vanuatu has a total of 2,528 km of coastline. In Niue, that number is 64 km.

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Sources: The World Factbook (2020–2021), World Health Organization (2024), United Nations SDG Indicators (2022), World Bank (2023). How we calculate this

Niue: At a glance

Niue is a sovereign country in Australia-Oceania, with a total land area of approximately 260 sq km. Niue's remoteness, as well as cultural and linguistic differences between its Polynesian inhabitants and those of the adjacent Cook Islands, has caused it to be separately administered by New Zealand. The population of the island continues to drop (from a peak of 5,200 in 1966 to an estimated 1,229 in 2013) with substantial emigration to New Zealand 2,400 km to the southwest.
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