Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in Djibouti instead of Tokelau, you would:

Economy

be 13.1 times more likely to be unemployed

In Tokelau, 2.0% of adults are unemployed as of 2015. In Djibouti, that number is 26.3% as of 2023.

Basic Needs

be 18.4% more likely to have internet access

In Tokelau, approximately 58.3% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Djibouti, about 69.0% do as of 2021.

Geography

see 3.1 times more coastline

Tokelau has a total of 101 km of coastline. In Djibouti, that number is 314 km.

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

Djibouti: At a glance

Djibouti is a sovereign country in Africa, with a total land area of approximately 23,180 sq km. The French Territory of the Afars and the Issas became Djibouti in 1977. Hassan Gouled APTIDON installed an authoritarian one-party state and proceeded to serve as president until 1999. Unrest among the Afar minority during the 1990s led to a civil war that ended in 2001 with a peace accord between Afar rebels and the Somali Issa-dominated government. In 1999, Djibouti's first multiparty presidential elections resulted in the election of Ismail Omar GUELLEH as president; he was reelected to a second term in 2005 and extended his tenure in office via a constitutional amendment, which allowed him to begin a third term in 2011. Djibouti occupies a strategic geographic location at the intersection of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden and serves as an important shipping portal for goods entering and leaving the east African highlands and transshipments between Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. The government holds longstanding ties to France, which maintains a significant military presence in the country, and has strong ties with the United States. Djibouti hosts several thousand members of US armed services at US-run Camp Lemonnier.
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