Digital 2025: Christmas Island
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This page explores the adoption and use of connected devices and services in Christmas Island in 2025.
If you want to know whether this is our most recent report on Christmas Island, or if you’re looking for data on digital trends and behaviours in Christmas Island for other years, you can find DataReportal’s full collection of (free!) reports on Christmas Island by clicking here.
You’ll find a summary of key statistics in the “overview graphic” section towards the bottom of this page, but we’ll start this article by taking a look at the essential headline numbers for Christmas Island this year.
Just before that, we’d like to say a big thank you to Meltwater and to We Are Social for their support of the Global Digital Reports series in 2025.
Now, let’s start exploring the data…
The “state of digital” in Christmas Island in 2025
Here are DataReportal’s essential headlines for the adoption and use of connected devices and services in Christmas Island in 2025:
There were 1,330 individuals using the internet in Christmas Island at the start of 2025, when online penetration stood at 78.6 percent.
Christmas Island was home to 1,100 social media user identities in January 2025, equating to 65.0 percent of the total population.
These headline stats offer a great overview of the “state of digital” in Christmas Island at the start of 2025, but in order to make sense of how digital trends and behaviours have been evolving over time, we need to dig deeper into the data.
Let’s take a closer look at what the numbers tell us, starting with some valuable context relating to the population of Christmas Island.
Population of Christmas Island in 2025
The population of Christmas Island stood at 1,692 in January 2025.
Data shows that Christmas Island’s population remained unchanged between early 2024 and the start of 2025.
Meanwhile, in early 2025, 100% of Christmas Island’s population lived in rural areas.
Internet use in Christmas Island in 2025
At the time of report production, the latest available data indicated that there were 1,330 internet users in Christmas Island in January 2025.
This means that Christmas Island’s internet penetration rate stood at 78.6 percent of the total population at the start of the year.
Meanwhile, Kepios’s analysis indicates that the number of internet users in Christmas Island remained unchanged between January 2024 and January 2025.
And for added perspective, Christmas Island’s internet adoption rate (i.e. the percentage of the total population that uses the internet) remained unchanged during the same period.
But these user figures also suggest that 362 people in Christmas Island did not use the internet at the beginning of 2025, suggesting that 21.4 percent of the population remained “offline” at the start of the year.
However, complexities associated with the collection and analysis of internet user data mean that it can often take several months before research is ready for publication.
As a result, the latest published figures for internet use may under-represent current realities, and actual rates for internet adoption and year-on-year growth may be higher than the figures shown here suggest.
Please see our comprehensive notes on data for further details.
Social media statistics for Christmas Island in 2025
DataReportal’s figures show that there were 1,100 active social media user identities in Christmas Island in January 2025.
For perspective, this figure was equivalent to 65.0 percent of Christmas Island’s total population at the start of 2025.
However, while our methodology strives to “de-duplicate” social media users across different social platforms — and, wherever possible, to remove accounts that do not represent individual human users — it’s important to stress that our social media user identities figures may not represent unique individuals (see our detailed notes on data to learn why).
Moreover, due to complexities associated with de-duplicating users across different social platforms, the methodology that we use to calculate social media user identities may sometimes only factor users of the social media platform that has the largest active audience in the respective country at the time of report production.
As a result, the figures that we publish for a country’s overall social media use may sometimes look very similar to the statistics that we publish for the most popular social media platform in that country.
Separately, please also note that the signals and sources that we rely on to inform these social media figures make regular changes and corrections to their data.
As a result, the values for social media use shown here might appear to be quite different to the numbers that we published in previous years.
Because of this, we advise significant caution when comparing the values for social media user identities published in this year’s reports with those published in previous years, especially because changes in our reported values may be the result of “corrections” in the source data, and not all trends will be the result of changes in actual user behaviour.
Indeed, source data anomalies mean that we are currently unable to report reliable figures for change over time in social media user identities for Christmas Island, and readers should avoid comparing current values for social media user identities with equivalent values shown in our previous reports, because such comparisons will result in incorrect values and unrepresentative trends.Turning our attention to user demographics, data published in the ad planning tools of top social media platforms indicates that there were 1,100 users aged 18 and above using social media in Christmas Island at the beginning of 2025, which was equivalent to [N/A] of the total population aged 18 and above.
At that time, 60.0 percent of Christmas Island’s social media user identities were female, while 40.0 percent were male.
And for added context, it may be helpful to know that 82.7 percent of Christmas Island’s total internet user base (regardless of age) used at least one social media platform in January 2025.
Note: due to source data limitations, we’re only able to report gender data for “female” and “male”.
Additional resources
Just before we get to the overview graphic, here are some suggestions for further reading, which will provide additional context for our full set of Digital 2025 numbers for Christmas Island:
Read our complete Digital 2025 Global Overview Report to get a comprehensive overview of the “state of digital” around the world in 2025.
Click here to see all of the Global Digital Reports we’ve published for Christmas Island over the years.
Explore all of our reports on countries in the Oceania region by clicking here.
Find all of the reports in the Digital 2025 series via this handy index page.
Visit our complete online library to see all of the (free!) reports in the Global Digital Reports series.
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Overview graphic
You’ll find a handy overview of the current “state of digital” in Christmas Island in the graphic below.