Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in Guatemala instead of Christmas Island, you would:

Basic Needs

be 23.4% less likely to have internet access

In Christmas Island, approximately 78.6% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Guatemala, about 60.2% do as of 2024.

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Geography

see 2.9 times more coastline

Christmas Island has a total of 139 km of coastline. In Guatemala, that number is 400 km.

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Sources: The World Factbook (2021), World Bank (2024). How we calculate this

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Christmas Island is about 807 times smaller than Guatemala.
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Guatemala: At a glance

Guatemala is a sovereign country in Central America/Caribbean, with a total land area of approximately 107,159 sq km. The Maya civilization flourished in Guatemala and surrounding regions during the first millennium A.D. After almost three centuries as a Spanish colony, Guatemala won its independence in 1821. During the second half of the 20th century, it experienced a variety of military and civilian governments, as well as a 36-year guerrilla war. In 1996, the government signed a peace agreement formally ending the internal conflict, which had left more than 200,000 people dead and had created, by some estimates, about 1 million refugees.
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