Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in Barbados instead of Wallis and Futuna, you would:

Health

live 4.3 years less

In Wallis and Futuna, the average life expectancy is 81 years (78 years for men, 84 years for women) as of 2022. In Barbados, that number is 76 years (74 years for men, 79 years for women) as of 2024.

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Basic Needs

be 53.6% more likely to have internet access

In Wallis and Futuna, approximately 45.8% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Barbados, about 70.4% do as of 2024.

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Geography

see 24.8% less coastline

Wallis and Futuna has a total of 129 km of coastline. In Barbados, that number is 97 km.

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Infrastructure

find 4.3 times more home broadband

Wallis and Futuna has 8.8 fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people as of 2022. Barbados has 37.5 as of 2022.

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

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Wallis and Futuna is about 3 times smaller than Barbados.
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Barbados: At a glance

Barbados is a sovereign country in Central America/Caribbean, with a total land area of approximately 430 sq km. The island was uninhabited when first settled by the British in 1627. African slaves worked the sugar plantations established on the island until 1834 when slavery was abolished. The economy remained heavily dependent on sugar, rum, and molasses production through most of the 20th century. The gradual introduction of social and political reforms in the 1940s and 1950s led to complete independence from the UK in 1966. In the 1990s, tourism and manufacturing surpassed the sugar industry in economic importance.
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