Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in Pitcairn Islands instead of Costa Rica, you would:

Basic Needs

be 10.4% more likely to have internet access

In Costa Rica, approximately 87.2% of the population has internet access as of 2024. In Pitcairn Islands, about 96.2% do as of 2021.

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Geography

see 96.0% less coastline

Costa Rica has a total of 1,290 km of coastline. In Pitcairn Islands, that number is 51 km.

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

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Costa Rica is about 1,087 times bigger than Pitcairn Islands.
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Pitcairn Islands: At a glance

Pitcairn Islands is a sovereign country in Australia-Oceania, with a total land area of approximately 47 sq km. Pitcairn Island was discovered in 1767 by the British and settled in 1790 by the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian companions. Pitcairn was the first Pacific island to become a British colony (in 1838) and today remains the last vestige of that empire in the South Pacific. Outmigration, primarily to New Zealand, has thinned the population from a peak of 233 in 1937 to less than 50 today.
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