Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in American Samoa instead of Pitcairn Islands, you would:

Basic Needs

be 58.1% less likely to have internet access

In Pitcairn Islands, approximately 96.2% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In American Samoa, about 40.3% do as of 2021.

Geography

see 2.3 times more coastline

Pitcairn Islands has a total of 51 km of coastline. In American Samoa, that number is 116 km.

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

American Samoa: At a glance

American Samoa (sometimes abbreviated AS) is a sovereign country in Australia-Oceania, with a total land area of approximately 224 sq km. Settled as early as 1000 B.C., Samoa was not reached by European explorers until the 18th century. International rivalries in the latter half of the 19th century were settled by an 1899 treaty in which Germany and the US divided the Samoan archipelago. The US formally occupied its portion - a smaller group of eastern islands with the excellent harbor of Pago Pago - the following year.
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