Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Samoa instead of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, you would:

Economy

be 97.5 times more likely to be unemployed

In Cocos (Keeling) Islands, 0.1% of adults are unemployed as of 2011. In Samoa, that number is 9.8% as of 2023.

Basic Needs

be 5.8 times more likely to have internet access

In Cocos (Keeling) Islands, approximately 13.4% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Samoa, about 78.0% do as of 2021.

Geography

see 15.5 times more coastline

Cocos (Keeling) Islands has a total of 26 km of coastline. In Samoa, that number is 403 km.

The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook.

Samoa: At a glance

Samoa is a sovereign country in Australia-Oceania, with a total land area of approximately 2,821 sq km. New Zealand occupied the German protectorate of Western Samoa at the outbreak of World War I in 1914. It continued to administer the islands as a mandate and then as a trust territory until 1962, when the islands became the first Polynesian nation to reestablish independence in the 20th century. The country dropped the "Western" from its name in 1997.
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