Quality of life comparison

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

Health

live 16.2 years longer

In Western Sahara, the average life expectancy is 64 years (62 years for men, 67 years for women) as of 2020. In Wallis and Futuna, that number is 81 years (78 years for men, 84 years for women) as of 2022.

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Life

be 91.2% less likely to die during infancy

In Western Sahara, approximately 47.9 children (per 1,000 live births) die before they reach the age of one as of 2020. In Wallis and Futuna, on the other hand, 4.2 children do as of 2020.

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Geography

see 88.4% less coastline

Western Sahara has a total of 1,110 km of coastline. In Wallis and Futuna, that number is 129 km.

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Sources: The World Factbook (2020–2022). How we calculate this

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Western Sahara is about 1,873 times bigger than Wallis and Futuna.
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Wallis and Futuna: At a glance

Wallis and Futuna is a sovereign country in Australia-Oceania, with a total land area of approximately 142 sq km. The Futuna island group was discovered by the Dutch in 1616 and Wallis by the British in 1767, but it was the French who declared a protectorate over the islands in 1842, and took official control of them between 1886 and 1888. Notably, Wallis and Futuna was the only French colony to side with the Vichy regime during World War II, a phase that ended in May of 1942 with the arrival of 2,000 American troops. In 1959, the inhabitants of the islands voted to become a French overseas territory and officially assumed this status in July 1961.
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