# Kiribati

- Link: https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/kiribati/
- Published: 2026-05-22T22:15:42-05:00
- Author: Preeti Sinha

National Blueprint · One of 195

# Kiribati

A nation of 136,000 on coral atolls spread across the central Pacific, where only
one in seven has safely managed drinking water and the World Bank finances transport
and resilience.

Perfect Nations values what Kiribati owns and raises capital against it, through**
innovative financing for development (FfD)** and **super intelligence (SI)**.

Kiribati at a glance

 * **136,488**PeopleWorld Bank
 * _Furthest from reach · Water_**84.9%**of people in Kiribati lack safely managed
   drinking water[WHO/UNICEF, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.H2O.SMDW.ZS?locations=KI)
 * **3**Instruments and investments on record[Capital already committed](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/kiribati/#bp-register)

[Work with us](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/kiribati/#bp-studio)[Read the Letter to Kiribati](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/kiribati/#bp-letter)

What we do for Kiribati

## Assets. Capital. Solutions.

Perfect Nations is a new-age sovereign advisory firm, and its clients are nations.

 1. [01AssetsThe cupFive sovereign assets, valued, from The People to The Land.](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/kiribati/#bp-assets)
 2. [02CapitalThe laurels3 instruments and investments on record, every one sourced.](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/kiribati/#bp-capital)
 3. [03SolutionsThe seven starsSeven basic standards of living, star by star. Water is furthest from reach today.](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/kiribati/#bp-pc)

**The whole logo:** a Perfect Nation, where every citizen has all seven basic standards
of living, led by good governance.

[01](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/kiribati/#bp-do)**Assets** · The cup ·
Sovereign Assets

## Five assets no balance sheet counts.

Each is owned today, earns today, and can carry Kiribati toward seven basic standards
of living for every citizen.

 * **136,488**Citizens, 2025
 * 
   ### The People
   
 * 34.4% are under fifteen: a young nation.
 * **6.5%**Of GDP sent home by citizens abroad, 2025
 * 
   ### The Diaspora
   
 * Citizens abroad send home a steady share of the economy: a flow that can back
   long-term finance.
 * **17.6%**Of export earnings from visitors, 2017
 * 
   ### The Visitors
   
 * Kiritimati’s lagoons and the Phoenix Islands: a small, distinctive visitor economy.
 * **42%**Of the land in agriculture, 2023
 * 
   ### The Farmland
   
 * Coconut and copra on four tenths of the land.
 * **810 km²**Land area, 2023
 * 
   ### The Land
   
 * Some 800 square kilometres of land across a vast ocean territory.

[Every figure, with its source](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/kiribati/#bp-sources)
[The Sovereign Assets ledger](https://perfectnations.com/sovereign-assets/)

[02](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/kiribati/#bp-do)**Capital** · The laurels·
Capital Architecture

## An ocean nation, financed by grants and its fishing grounds.

Bonds, guarantees, swaps and loans that raise capital against what Kiribati owns,
every line sourced.

[Capital Architecture](https://perfectnations.com/capital-architecture/)

The record in figures

 * **$10M**Additional financing for outer islands transport infrastructure, April
   2024[World Bank, 2024](https://projects.worldbank.org/en/projects-operations/project-detail/P181658)
 * **$10M**First Resilient Growth Development Policy Operation with a catastrophe
   drawdown option, November 2023[World Bank, 2023](https://projects.worldbank.org/en/projects-operations/project-detail/P177794)
 * **8%**General government gross debt, share of GDP, 2025[IMF, WEO Oct 2026](https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/GGXWDG_NGDP@WEO/KIR)
 * **6.5%**Remittances received from citizens abroad, share of GDP, 2025[World Bank, 2025](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BX.TRF.PWKR.DT.GD.ZS?locations=KI)

Capital already committed

 * MultilateralApprovedOuter Islands Transport Infrastructure, additional financing
   $10M
 * World Bank · Approved 8 April 2024
 * Wharves and roads for the outer islands.
 * World Bank
 * [Source](https://projects.worldbank.org/en/projects-operations/project-detail/P181658)
 * MultilateralApprovedFirst Resilient Growth DPO with a Cat DDO$10M
 * World Bank · Approved 30 November 2023
 * Budget support with funds that release when disaster strikes.
 * World Bank
 * [Source](https://projects.worldbank.org/en/projects-operations/project-detail/P177794)
 * MultilateralApprovedKiritimati Infrastructure Project
 * World Bank · Approved 13 December 2024
 * Infrastructure for Kiritimati (Christmas Island).
 * World Bank
 * [Source](https://projects.worldbank.org/en/projects-operations/project-detail/P506425)

### The Kiribati Newswire

[The Solutions Wire](https://perfectnations.com/state-of-nations/#sn-wire)

![Teretia Tabwena, Nation Steward of Kiribati](https://perfectnations.com/wp-content/
uploads/2026/11/Teretia-Tabwena-Nation-Steward-of-Kiribati-150x150.png)

**Teretia Tabwena**Nation Steward of Kiribati · SI ResearcherLast updated 10 November
2026

 * **The first sourced news for Kiribati is in review.**

## Already working in Kiribati.

Independent firms and social enterprises already at work in Kiribati, highlighted
by Perfect Nations. None is a partner of Perfect Nations.

[Suggest an enterprise](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/kiribati/contact@perfectnations.com?subject=An%20enterprise%20already%20at%20work%20in%20Kiribati)

 * 
   ### The first firms and social enterprises at work in Kiribati are being gathered.
   
 * Name one already at work there: it may be highlighted here, with its source.

[03](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/kiribati/#bp-do)**Solutions** · The seven
stars · Perfect Capita

## Perfect Kiribati, _star by star._

**Perfect Capita** is the yearly cost, per person, of lifting everyone above the
Living Line in all seven basic living standards, set with Kiribati in its own prices.

[How Perfect Capita works](https://perfectnations.com/perfect-capita/)

**15.1%**

Water · furthest from reachSafely managed drinking water[WHO/UNICEF, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.H2O.SMDW.ZS?locations=KI)

Tap a star for its figure and source.

The price of Perfect Kiribati

To be set with Kiribati, from its own figures and in its own prices: Perfect Capita
times the people of Kiribati, each year.

Read more

 * Food**57.1%**Not food insecure; 42.9% are moderately or severely food insecure
   [FAO, 2023](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SN.ITK.MSFI.ZS?locations=KI)
 * Water**15.1%**Safely managed drinking water[WHO/UNICEF, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.H2O.SMDW.ZS?locations=KI)
 * Shelter**24.7%**Safely managed sanitation; 5.9% of city dwellers live in slums
   [WHO/UNICEF, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.SMSS.ZS?locations=KI)
 * Energy**24%**24% cook with clean fuels and technology; 97.7% have electricity
   [World Bank, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.CFT.ACCS.ZS?locations=KI)
 * Education**96**96% of young people complete lower secondary school[World Bank, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.SEC.CMPT.LO.ZS?locations=KI)
 * Health**51**WHO service coverage index[WHO, 2023](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/universal-health-coverage-index?country=~KIR)
 * Livelihood**94.3%**Above US$4.20 a day; 5.7% live below it[World Bank, 2023](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.LMIC?locations=KI)

Perfect Nations estimate, to be confirmed with Kiribati. Figures marked dated rest
on surveys more than five years old; lenient measures are marked as such. [The strict measures](https://perfectnations.com/perfect-capita/#pq-measures)

Strict measures. Food: share not moderately or severely food insecure (FAO). Water:
safely managed drinking water where measured; where it is not, basic water, marked
as such. Shelter: the lower of safely managed sanitation and the share outside urban
slums. Energy: the lower of electricity per person against 1,000 kWh and clean cooking;
where electricity per person is not published, clean cooking. Education: the lower
of children reading by the end of primary school and lower-secondary completion.
Health: WHO service coverage index. Livelihood: share above the stricter of the 
national poverty line and the World Bank line for the nation’s income group (US$
8.30 a day for high-income nations). Each figure links to its source.

### Solutions for Perfect Kiribati

[All Solutions](https://perfectnations.com/state-of-nations/#sn-solutions)

 * **The Solution for Kiribati**Water
 * 
   ### Turn cheaper debt into safe water.
   
    - **01****The challenge**84.9% Of people in Kiribati lack safely managed drinking
      water. [WHO/UNICEF, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.H2O.SMDW.ZS?locations=KI)
    - **02****The deal**
    - Debt-for-climate-resilience swap, proved in Barbados, 2024: $300M the world’s
      first for resilience. [Inter-American Development Bank, 2024](https://www.iadb.org/en/news/barbados-launched-worlds-first-debt-climate-resilience-operation)
    - **03****What Perfect Nations advises**Nations where water is furthest from
      reach should swap costly debt for cheaper, guaranteed debt and commit the 
      savings to water and sewerage. With super intelligence, every saving can be
      followed into each household connection, main and treatment plant, and the
      next connection planned where the need is greatest.
 * Co-design it in**The ReDesign Studio**[The three mandates](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/kiribati/#bp-mandates)

Perfect Nations® · Letters to the NationsKiribati

## Dear Kiribati,

Your nation is spread across a vast ocean, and your land rises only a little above
it.

Read more

Almost every one of you has electricity. Only one in seven has safely managed drinking
water, and one in four cooks with clean fuel. Let the wealth of your fishing grounds
bring safe water to every atoll.

“The ocean is the nation’s wealth. Let it bring safe water to every atoll.”

Yours in design,**Preeti Sinha**President and CEO, Perfect Nations

Work with us · The ReDesign Studio

## The Perfect Kiribati _ReDesign Studio_

One mission, three depths: the same four moves for Kiribati, taken as far toward
market as you choose.

Read more

For the Government of Kiribati, its development partners and investors. Scope and
fees are agreed in writing before any work begins.

 1. **01**Identify the assets
 2. **02**Estimate Perfect Capita
 3. **03**Co-design the capital architecture
 4. **04**Launch the instruments

 1.  Mandate 013 hours
 2.  
     ### The Nation Briefing
     
 3.  A private session for the people who decide.
 4.  You leave withThe gap, named and sized
 5.  Read more
 6.   a. **01**The five sovereign assets on this page, walked through.
      b. **02**Water, the standard furthest from reach, and the Gap, explained.
      c. **03**The instruments that could close the Gap, shortlisted.
      d. **04**The path to market, outlined.
 7.  [Request a Nation Briefing](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?about=briefing&country=Kiribati)
 8.  Mandate 023 days
 9.  
     ### The Blueprint Lab
     
 10. Your team and ours, working the blueprint together.
 11. You leave withThe structure, drawn
 12. Read more
 13.  a. **01**The ledger tested against your ministries’ own data.
      b. **02**Each of the seven standards costed in local prices.
      c. **03**One financing structure, drawn with your team.
      d. **04**A term sheet and the partners to approach.
 14. [Plan a Blueprint Lab](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?about=lab&country=Kiribati)
 15. Mandate 03End to end
 16. 
     ### The Sovereign Mandate
     
 17. Led personally by the President and CEO.
 18. You leave withA structure ready for market
 19. Read more
 20.  a. **01**A full sovereign asset ledger, valued and verified.
      b. **02**Perfect Capita set and agreed with government, with a monitoring plan.
      c. **03**The full structure: legal form, credit enhancement, guarantees and pricing.
      d. **04**Taken to investors and development partners, through to close.
 21. [Discuss a Sovereign Mandate](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?about=commission&country=Kiribati)

### Co-design it with us

Where the I-Kiribati and Co-designers design the nation they want to live in.

 * Writings
 * 
   #### Write Perfect Kiribati into being.
   
 * Up to 1,500 words on your vision of Perfect Kiribati, published with your name.
 * [Submit your writing](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/kiribati/contact@perfectnations.com?subject=Writing%20for%20Perfect%20Kiribati&body=Your%20name%2C%20or%20a%20pen%20name%3A%0D%0AWhere%20you%20live%3A%0D%0ATitle%3A%0D%0A%0D%0AYour%20vision%20of%20Perfect%20Kiribati%2C%20and%20the%20economic%20solutions%20to%20achieve%20it%20%28up%20to%201%2C500%20words%29%3A%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AI%20confirm%20that%20this%20is%20my%20own%20original%20writing%2C%20and%20I%20give%20Perfect%20Nations%20permission%20to%20publish%20it%20with%20credit%20to%20me.%0D%0A)
 * Voices of Perfect Nations Launching soon
 * 
   #### The local leaders already building Perfect Kiribati.
   
 * Great local leaders: honest, dedicated and committed to basic standards of living
   for all. Every guest answers one question: “What does Kiribati already own, and
   how could it pay for a decent life for every citizen?”
 * [Nominate yourself](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?nation=kiribati&topic=nominate-self)
   [Suggest a guest](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?nation=kiribati&topic=guest)
 * Co-designers
 * 
   #### Join the community.
   
 * Everyone who shares a vision, a voice or an enterprise here becomes a **Co-designer
   of Perfect Kiribati**.
 * [Become a Co-designer](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/kiribati/contact@perfectnations.com?subject=Becoming%20a%20Co-designer%20of%20Perfect%20Kiribati&body=Your%20name%3A%0D%0AWhere%20you%20live%3A%0D%0AHow%20you%20would%20like%20to%20contribute%20%28writing%2C%20a%20voice%20for%20the%20podcast%2C%20an%20enterprise%2C%20your%20expertise%29%3A%0D%0A)

The Kiribati ReDesign Studio is open

## Design Perfect Kiribati with us.

Share your vision, suggest a guest, or write to us: every message receives a personal
reply.

[Enter the ReDesign Studio](https://perfectnations.com/design-studio/)[Write to us](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?nation=kiribati)
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Sources

 1. World Bank, World Development Indicators (API), accessed 10 November 2026: population
    and ages 0 to 14, 2025; land area and agricultural and forest land; renewable fresh
    water per person, 2022; natural resource, oil, gas and mineral rents, 2021; renewable
    electricity output, 2021; tourism receipts; personal remittances; electricity access
    and clean cooking.
 2. The seven standards: FAO food insecurity, WHO/UNICEF JMP water and sanitation, 
    UN-Habitat urban slums, World Bank clean cooking, learning poverty and lower-secondary
    completion, and poverty headcounts (all via the World Bank); WHO UHC service coverage
    index, 2023.
 3. IMF, World Economic Outlook, October 2026 (DataMapper, accessed 10 November 2026):
    general government gross debt, 2025, and real GDP growth projected for 2026.
 4. World Bank projects P181658, P177794 and P506425.