Quality of life comparison

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

Health

live 1.3 years longer

In Wallis and Futuna, the average life expectancy is 81 years (78 years for men, 84 years for women) as of 2022. In New Zealand, that number is 82 years (80 years for men, 84 years for women) as of 2024.

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Basic Needs

be 2.0 times more likely to have internet access

In Wallis and Futuna, approximately 45.8% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In New Zealand, about 93.5% do as of 2024.

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Geography

see 117.3 times more coastline

Wallis and Futuna has a total of 129 km of coastline. In New Zealand, that number is 15,134 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. New Zealand has 38.0 as of 2024.

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

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Wallis and Futuna is about 1,893 times smaller than New Zealand.
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New Zealand: At a glance

New Zealand (sometimes abbreviated NZ) is a sovereign country in Australia-Oceania, with a total land area of approximately 264,537 sq km. The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. That same year, the British began the first organized colonial settlement. A series of land wars between 1843 and 1872 ended with the defeat of the native peoples. The British colony of New Zealand became an independent dominion in 1907 and supported the UK militarily in both world wars. New Zealand's full participation in a number of defense alliances lapsed by the 1980s. In recent years, the government has sought to address longstanding Maori grievances.
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