Quality of life comparison

compared to

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

Economy

be 18.8% less likely to be unemployed

In Niue, 12.0% of adults are unemployed as of 2001. In Samoa, that number is 9.8% as of 2023.

make 45.9% less money

Niue has a GDP per capita of $11,100 as of 2021, while in Samoa, the GDP per capita is $6,000 as of 2023.

Expenditures

spend 32.1% less on healthcare

Niue spends 7.8% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2020. In Samoa, that number is 5.3% of GDP as of 2020.

Geography

see 6.3 times more coastline

Niue has a total of 64 km of coastline. In Samoa, that number is 403 km.

The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook.

Samoa: At a glance

Samoa is a sovereign country in Australia-Oceania, with a total land area of approximately 2,821 sq km. New Zealand occupied the German protectorate of Western Samoa at the outbreak of World War I in 1914. It continued to administer the islands as a mandate and then as a trust territory until 1962, when the islands became the first Polynesian nation to reestablish independence in the 20th century. The country dropped the "Western" from its name in 1997.
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