Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in Marshall Islands instead of Christmas Island, you would:

Basic Needs

be 16.1% less likely to have internet access

In Christmas Island, approximately 78.6% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Marshall Islands, about 65.9% do as of 2024.

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Geography

see 2.7 times more coastline

Christmas Island has a total of 139 km of coastline. In Marshall Islands, that number is 370 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 1.3 times smaller than Marshall Islands.
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Marshall Islands: At a glance

Marshall Islands (sometimes abbreviated RMI) is a sovereign country in Australia-Oceania, with a total land area of approximately 181 sq km. After almost four decades under US administration as the easternmost part of the UN Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Marshall Islands attained independence in 1986 under a Compact of Free Association. Compensation claims continue as a result of US nuclear testing on some of the atolls between 1947 and 1962. The Marshall Islands hosts the US Army Kwajalein Atoll (USAKA) Reagan Missile Test Site, a key installation in the US missile defense network.
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