Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in Puerto Rico instead of Christmas Island, you would:

Basic Needs

be 11.1% more likely to have internet access

In Christmas Island, approximately 78.6% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Puerto Rico, about 87.3% do as of 2022.

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Geography

see 3.6 times more coastline

Christmas Island has a total of 139 km of coastline. In Puerto Rico, that number is 501 km.

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Sources: The World Factbook (2021), World Bank (2022). How we calculate this

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Christmas Island is about 67 times smaller than Puerto Rico.
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Puerto Rico: At a glance

Puerto Rico is a territory in Central America/Caribbean, with a total land area of approximately 8,959 sq km. Populated for centuries by aboriginal peoples, the island was claimed by the Spanish Crown in 1493 following Christopher COLUMBUS' second voyage to the Americas. In 1898, after 400 years of colonial rule that saw the indigenous population nearly exterminated and African slave labor introduced, Puerto Rico was ceded to the US as a result of the Spanish-American War. Puerto Ricans were granted US citizenship in 1917. Popularly-elected governors have served since 1948. In 1952, a constitution was enacted providing for internal self government. In plebiscites held in 1967, 1993, and 1998, voters chose not to alter the existing political status with the US, but the results of a 2012 vote left open the possibility of American statehood.
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