Quality of life comparison
compared to
If you lived in New Caledonia instead of Niue, you would:
Economy
make 3.2 times more money
Niue has a GDP per capita of $11,100 as of 2021, while in New Caledonia, the GDP per capita is $35,700 as of 2021.
Geography
see 35.2 times more coastline
Niue has a total of 64 km of coastline. In New Caledonia, that number is 2,254 km.
The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook.
New Caledonia: At a glance
New Caledonia is a sovereign country in Australia-Oceania, with a total land area of approximately 18,275 sq km. Settled by both Britain and France during the first half of the 19th century, the island became a French possession in 1853. It served as a penal colony for four decades after 1864. Agitation for independence during the 1980s and early 1990s ended in the 1998 Noumea Accord, which over a period of 15 to 20 years will transfer an increasing amount of governing responsibility from France to New Caledonia. The agreement also commits France to conduct a referendum between 2014 and 2018 to decide whether New Caledonia should assume full sovereignty and independence.
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