Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in Papua New Guinea instead of Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), you would:

Basic Needs

be 81.0% less likely to have internet access

In Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), approximately 99.0% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Papua New Guinea, about 18.8% do as of 2024.

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Geography

see 4.0 times more coastline

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) has a total of 1,288 km of coastline. In Papua New Guinea, that number is 5,152 km.

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Infrastructure

find 99.2% less home broadband

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) has 27.8 fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people as of 2022. Papua New Guinea has 0.2 as of 2024.

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Sources: The World Factbook (2021), World Bank (2024), United Nations SDG Indicators (2022). How we calculate this

Compare further: Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) vs. Papua New Guinea

Cost of Living Comparison · 6 categories - 2026 data
Papua New Guinea is 37.3% cheaper than Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) overall
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Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) is about 38 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
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Papua New Guinea: At a glance

Papua New Guinea (sometimes abbreviated PNG) is a sovereign country in East/Southeast Asia, with a total land area of approximately 452,860 sq km. The eastern half of the island of New Guinea - second largest in the world - was divided between Germany (north) and the UK (south) in 1885. The latter area was transferred to Australia in 1902, which occupied the northern portion during World War I and continued to administer the combined areas until independence in 1975. A nine-year secessionist revolt on the island of Bougainville ended in 1997 after claiming some 20,000 lives.
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