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AI access, cost and use · Melanesia · Oceania · data read 1 Oct 2026

New Caledonia

In New Caledonia, a $20-a-month AI plan is 0.80% of national income per person. There is no recent household survey to set it against what people live on. OpenAI and Gemini are officially offered; Claude is not. 82% of people use the internet.

–of the median living standard for a $20 planno recent household survey
–of people for whom the plan is over a tenth of their living standard
2of 3leading services officially offeredOpenAI · Gemini
82%of people use the internetworld 74% · 295k people

The figuresNew Caledonia

People295k
Median living standardno estimateno national survey
A $20 plan takes–
For whom it is over a tenth–
GNI per person$30,070plan is 0.80% of it
Claude use per personnot reported
Notable AI models built here0

Officially offered here2 of 3

Run it yourself →
Claude · claude.ai appNot listed
OpenAI · APIYes
Gemini · web appYes

From each lab's own published list: Anthropic's Claude.ai countries, OpenAI's API countries and Google's Gemini web app countries. Not listed means not officially served; open-weight models can be run anywhere.

Against Oceania and the worldregional figures are medians or population-weighted

MeasureNew CaledoniaOceaniaWorld
A $20 plan ÷ median living standard–11%9.9%
People for whom it is over a tenth–5%63%
Plan price ÷ GNI per person0.80%3.0%2.9%
People using the internet82%75%74%
Claude use per working-age personnot reported5.26×1.00×
Notable AI models built061,256

NeighboursMelanesia · lightest burden first

CountryPeopleOnline$20 plan ÷ median living standardOver a tenthClaude use per personOfficial lists
Vanuatu335k22%11%54%not reported3 of 3
Fiji933k75%20%89%not reported3 of 3
Papua New Guinea11 m19%no estimate–not reported3 of 3
Solomon Islands839k29%no estimate–not reported3 of 3
New Caledonia295k82%no estimate–not reported2 of 3
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The foundationsNew Caledonia against the world

World Bank ↗
People using the internet
82%world 74%
People with electricity
100%world 92%
Mobile subscriptions per 100 people
92world 112
Fixed broadband lines per 100 people
19.4world 20.1
Enrolled in university-level education
–world 44%
Research spending, share of GDP
–world 2.6%
Researchers per million people
–world 1,652
Secure internet servers per million people
7,542world 16,381

The latest World Bank figure for each measure. The tick marks the world figure.

A $20-a-month plan ($240 a year, US list price) against the median household living standard per person in each country. The median is from the latest national household survey (World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform), revalued from 2021 purchasing-power dollars into US dollars at recent prices and official exchange rates, assuming real living standards have not changed since the survey. Some surveys measure income and others consumption, which includes food people grow and housing they own, so this is a living standard, not cash to spare. Countries with no survey since 2015 or no defensible exchange rate are left blank.

World Bank household surveys ↗Anthropic countries ↗OpenAI countries ↗Gemini countries ↗Anthropic Economic Index ↗Epoch AI notable models ↗