Quality of life comparison

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

Economy

be 80.8% less likely to be unemployed

In Niue, 12.0% of adults are unemployed as of 2001. In Tonga, that number is 2.3% as of 2023.

make 40.5% less money

Niue has a GDP per capita of $11,100 as of 2021, while in Tonga, the GDP per capita is $6,600 as of 2022.

Basic Needs

be 15.8% less likely to have internet access

In Niue, approximately 79.6% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Tonga, about 67.0% do as of 2021.

Expenditures

spend 32.1% less on healthcare

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

Geography

see 6.5 times more coastline

Niue has a total of 64 km of coastline. In Tonga, that number is 419 km.

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

Tonga: At a glance

Tonga is a sovereign country in Australia-Oceania, with a total land area of approximately 717 sq km. Tonga - unique among Pacific nations - never completely lost its indigenous governance. The archipelagos of "The Friendly Islands" were united into a Polynesian kingdom in 1845. Tonga became a constitutional monarchy in 1875 and a British protectorate in 1900; it withdrew from the protectorate and joined the Commonwealth of Nations in 1970. Tonga remains the only monarchy in the Pacific.
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