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If you lived in Papua New Guinea instead of Holy See (Vatican City), you would:

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be 79.5% less likely to have access to electricity

In Holy See (Vatican City), approximately 100% of the population has electricity access as of 2021. In Papua New Guinea, 20% of the population do as of 2023.

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be 77.9% less likely to have internet access

In Holy See (Vatican City), approximately 85.1% of the population has internet access as of 2022. In Papua New Guinea, about 18.8% do as of 2024.

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Sources: World Bank (2023–2024), The World Factbook (2021), United Nations SDG Indicators (2022). How we calculate this

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Holy See (Vatican City) is about 1,051,909 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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