Quality of life comparison

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

Basic Needs

be 13.8% more likely to have internet access

In Christmas Island, approximately 78.6% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Kiribati, about 89.4% do as of 2024.

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Geography

see 8.2 times more coastline

Christmas Island has a total of 139 km of coastline. In Kiribati, that number is 1,143 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 6 times smaller than Kiribati.
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Kiribati: At a glance

Kiribati is a sovereign country in Australia-Oceania, with a total land area of approximately 811 sq km. The Gilbert Islands became a British protectorate in 1892 and a colony in 1915; they were captured by the Japanese in the Pacific War in 1941. The islands of Makin and Tarawa were the sites of major US amphibious victories over entrenched Japanese garrisons in 1943. The Gilbert Islands were granted self-rule by the UK in 1971 and complete independence in 1979 under the new name of Kiribati. The US relinquished all claims to the sparsely inhabited Phoenix and Line Island groups in a 1979 treaty of friendship with Kiribati.
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