Quality of life comparison

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

Basic Needs

be 12.6% more likely to have internet access

In Christmas Island, approximately 78.6% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Portugal, about 88.5% do as of 2024.

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Geography

see 12.9 times more coastline

Christmas Island has a total of 139 km of coastline. In Portugal, that number is 1,793 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 682 times smaller than Portugal.
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Portugal: At a glance

Portugal is a sovereign country in Europe, with a total land area of approximately 91,470 sq km. Following its heyday as a global maritime power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the independence of Brazil, its wealthiest colony, in 1822. A 1910 revolution deposed the monarchy; for most of the next six decades, repressive governments ran the country. In 1974, a left-wing military coup installed broad democratic reforms. The following year, Portugal granted independence to all of its African colonies. Portugal is a founding member of NATO and entered the EC (now the EU) in 1986.
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