Trott Bailey Family Abundance · Country Profile
Kiribati
Tracking baselineEvidence through 31 Dec 2025Money Gate 20 · Overall Gate 0.7.0 Money Gate 20 Food, Housing / Land, Healthcare, Transportation and Water / Energy are four points each. All five must reach 4/4 before the country can cross zero. Money may still exist as an exchange tool; it cannot remain the permission slip for these five basics. Read Money Is a Weak Civilization Engine
Five basics stand between this country and zero
This older research pack has not yet received a direct five-part Money Gate audit. Its historical Reach/Friction evidence is compressed to a maximum transitional 4/20 so we do not invent free-access points that were never researched.
9% weightHuman Time & Burden Return
+8.3
Whether productivity, infrastructure and institutions return usable lifetime to people and families.
TBFC target: Necessary contribution should not require people to sell most of their waking life merely to retain access to food, shelter, care and ordinary family life.
Access-gate research question: How much paid work or income-producing activity is required before an ordinary household can keep access to basic life, and what usable family time remains afterward?
Abundance Gap: +25.0
Low headline unemployment is offset by very high broader labour underutilization, informal work and NEET share. Current 2023–24 labour evidence supports modest capacity but substantial burden/friction.
Published indicators
Kiribati National Statistics Office / Pacific Community · 2024
SourceKiribati National Statistics Office / Pacific Community · 2024
SourceKiribati National Statistics Office / Pacific Community · 2024
SourceKiribati National Statistics Office / Pacific Community · 2024
SourceKiribati National Statistics Office / Pacific Community · 2024
Source
8% weightHousing, Shelter & Housing Reach
+19.8
Whether adequate shelter physically exists and actually reaches people without excessive cost, exclusion or vacancy mismatch.
TBFC target: Adequate family shelter should remain reachable without lifetime dependence on rent, mortgage debt or ability to pay.
Access-gate research question: What share of ordinary shelter access depends on rent, mortgage debt, purchase price or other recurring payment, and what dependable non-market routes exist at national scale?
Abundance Gap: +5.0
High outright home ownership supports shelter reach, but severe South Tarawa density and current disaster-related housing damage reduce spatial and durability abundance.
Published indicators
Kiribati National Statistics Office · 2020
SourceKiribati National Statistics Office / Pacific Community · 2020
SourceKiribati National Statistics Office / Pacific Community · 2024
SourceKiribati National Statistics Office / Pacific Community · 2024
Source
9% weightFood, Nourishment & Free Food Abundance
+21.5
Physical food and nutrient capacity, nourishment reach, waste/loss, public edible landscapes and free food access.
TBFC target: Nutritious food should exist in multiplying abundance and remain reachable even when a household has no money to spend.
Access-gate research question: Can people obtain adequate nutritious food when they cannot pay, and are free/public/productive-food routes large enough to be ordinary rather than exceptional?
Abundance Gap: +30.0
Near-universal participation in food-producing activity and meaningful home-produced consumption provide real food capacity; 44% moderate/severe food insecurity and heavy food spending show that reach remains constrained.
Published indicators
Kiribati National Statistics Office / Pacific Community · 2024
SourceKiribati National Statistics Office / Pacific Community · 2024
SourceKiribati National Statistics Office / Pacific Community · 2024
SourceKiribati National Statistics Office / Pacific Community · 2024
SourceKiribati National Statistics Office / Pacific Community · 2024
Source
6% weightWater & Sanitation Abundance
+6.8
Safe water, sanitation, reliability, capture, reuse, storage and living-landscape water capacity.
TBFC target: Safe water and sanitation should be dependable life infrastructure, not conditional on household purchasing power.
Access-gate research question: Can households retain safe water and sanitation when income falls, and which payment, disconnection or infrastructure barriers interrupt access?
Abundance Gap: +5.0
Current HIES evidence shows drinking-water access ahead of sanitation, but safe sanitation remains low and island water vulnerability creates major friction.
Published indicators
Kiribati National Statistics Office / Pacific Community · 2024
SourceKiribati National Statistics Office / Pacific Community · 2024
SourceUNICEF Pacific · 2023
SourceUNICEF Pacific · 2023
Source
5% weightEnergy & Household Capability
+40.5
Whether usable, reliable energy reaches households and removes burdens across water, food, health, cooling, cooking and movement.
TBFC target: Essential household energy should support cooking, cooling, water, food preservation and care without money becoming the switch that turns basic capability on or off.
Access-gate research question: Can households retain essential energy for cooking, cooling, water and food preservation when they cannot pay, and how often does price or disconnection reduce capability?
Abundance Gap: +5.0
Electricity reach is near universal, with growing renewable capacity, though generation mix and dispersed-island reliability keep friction material.
Published indicators
World Bank · 2024
SourceKiribati National Statistics Office / Pacific Community · 2024
SourceWorld Bank / Our World in Data · 2021
SourceAsian Development Bank · 2023
Source
7% weightHealth & Care Reach
+19.5
Whether prevention, primary care, medicine, maternity care, dentistry and specialist capability reach people when needed.
TBFC target: Prevention, maternity, dentistry, medicine and necessary treatment should be reachable because care is needed, not because payment can be produced.
Access-gate research question: Can necessary care be obtained because it is needed, or do price, insurance, employment, debt or other financial tests materially delay or prevent access?
Abundance Gap: 0.0
Financial protection and care-seeking indicators are meaningful positives, while high child mortality and treatment gaps keep health capability and reach far below abundance.
Published indicators
UNICEF · 2024
SourceUNICEF · 2024
SourceUNICEF · 2019
SourceUNICEF · 2019
SourceKiribati National Statistics Office / Pacific Community · 2024
Source
6% weightEducation & Human Capability
+25.3
Foundational learning plus practical, technical and enduring civilization capability retained by people.
TBFC target: Foundational learning and useful capability should be reachable as part of civilization life rather than purchased according to family income.
Access-gate research question: Which essential learning and capability routes are genuinely reachable regardless of family income, and where do fees, debt or paid enrichment create decisive access gaps?
Abundance Gap: -5.0
Participation in basic education is high, but upper-secondary continuation and learning outcomes show substantial capability loss beyond enrollment.
Published indicators
Kiribati National Statistics Office / Pacific Community · 2024
SourceUNICEF · 2019
SourceUNICEF / UNESCO · 2020
SourceUNICEF Pacific · 2022
SourceWorld Bank · 2022
Source
4% weightMobility & Reachability
-1.3
Local, regional and national movement that connects people to family, services, work, learning and public life without consuming excessive time.
TBFC target: Ordinary local and regional movement should be available for family, care, learning and civic life without travel becoming a paywall.
Access-gate research question: Can ordinary people reach family, care, learning and public life without high recurring fares, vehicle costs, debt or fuel dependence?
Abundance Gap: +20.0
Road-safety burden is moderate in rate terms, but 33-island dispersion over a vast ocean creates severe inter-island reach friction; current investments are credited as return/capacity rather than completed access.
Published indicators
World Health Organization · 2021
SourceWorld Health Organization · 2021
SourceWorld Health Organization · 2010
SourceUNICEF Pacific · 2024
SourceVerified evidence
A 2025 World Bank grant supports road and airport upgrades on Kiritimati, an important response to geographic isolation.
World BankADB investment targets safer and more resilient access for outer-island communities including Abaiang, Nonouti, Beru and Tabiteuea South.
Asian Development Bank
8% weightFamily Formation, Continuity & Child Stability
Fertility agenda · target 5.0
Family continuity is measured partly by whether children are actually multiplying. New and re-reviewed profiles use total fertility as 40% of Family Formation: 2.1 births per woman is the replacement floor and earns positive but limited credit; the authored target is 5.0.
Read A Civilization Built for Mothers and Fathers
+5.5
Conditions that let people form stable families, raise children, share parental time and continue family life without punishing material barriers.
TBFC target: People should be able to form, continue and multiply family life. Trott Bailey Family Civilization uses 5.0 children per woman as the fertility target; 2.1 is the replacement floor, not the aspiration, while housing, care, food and time should not be withheld behind financial thresholds.
Access-gate research question: How strongly do housing, childcare, health, food and work-income requirements delay or destabilize family formation and continuity, and is total fertility moving above replacement toward the 5.0-children-per-woman civilization target?
Abundance Gap: +5.0
Birth registration and some family-service reach are strong, while child marriage, violent discipline and gender-violence attitudes indicate serious child/family stability friction.
Published indicators
UNICEF · 2019
SourceUNICEF · 2019
SourceUNICEF · 2019
SourceUNICEF · 2019
Source
5% weightLand Access & Spatial Freedom
+24.0
Whether land and settlement choice reach ordinary people rather than opportunity being functionally trapped inside expensive commercial centres.
TBFC target: Suitable productive land and settlement opportunity should not be functionally reserved for those able to outbid everyone else.
Access-gate research question: Can ordinary families gain secure use of suitable productive ground without first accumulating enough money to purchase, finance or outbid others?
Abundance Gap: +10.0
Kiribati has substantial land in less-populated islands, especially Kiritimati, but population concentration on very dense South Tarawa makes practical spatial freedom uneven.
Published indicators
World Bank · 2024
SourceKiribati National Statistics Office / World Bank · 2020
SourceWorld Bank · 2020
SourceUNICEF Pacific · 2024
Source
6% weightPeace of Mind, Happiness, Beauty & Delight
+34.5
Peace of mind, social support, everyday safety, public beauty, recreation, nature, culture and delight reachable without constant payment.
TBFC target: Beauty, nature, recreation, rest and public delight should belong to ordinary life rather than appearing mainly after payment.
Access-gate research question: How much everyday rest, nature, recreation, culture and public beauty is freely reachable, rather than principally accessed through paid venues, travel or private property?
Abundance Gap: +25.0
Kiribati has extraordinary ocean/nature beauty and strong public cultural landscape capacity; disaster displacement and very high youth suicide evidence materially reduce lived peace and delight.
Published indicators
World Health Organization · 2021
SourceKiribati National Statistics Office / Pacific Community · 2024
SourceKiribati National Statistics Office / Pacific Community · 2024
SourceUNESCO World Heritage Centre · 2026
Source
6% weightLiving Ground, Biodiversity & Resilience
+28.8
Whether soil, forests, wetlands, habitat, pollinators, species and water-holding landscapes are strengthening rather than being consumed.
TBFC target: Regenerating soil, water, habitat and food-bearing landscapes should be maintained as shared life-supporting capacity rather than only where a transaction makes them profitable.
Access-gate research question: Are regenerative land, water and habitat functions maintained as life-supporting infrastructure even when no direct commercial return is available?
Abundance Gap: +20.0
PIPA and protected-area coverage provide major ecological capacity and global conservation return; very low forest area, climate exposure and agricultural disaster losses create strong resilience friction.
Published indicators
SPREP PIPAP / UNEP-WCMC · 2025
SourceSPREP PIPAP / UNEP-WCMC · 2025
SourceWorld Bank · 2023
SourceUNESCO World Heritage Centre · 2026
SourceKiribati National Statistics Office / Pacific Community · 2024
Source
5% weightJustice, Safety & Institutional Friction
+22.0
Physical safety, usable justice, legal identity, reliable public administration and low needless institutional burden.
TBFC target: Usable justice, legal identity, safety and ordinary administration should remain accessible regardless of wealth.
Access-gate research question: Do fees, legal costs, bail, fines, documentation costs or ability to hire expertise materially change access to justice, safety or public administration?
Abundance Gap: +5.0
External governance measures show generally strong democratic and rule-of-law conditions, while judicial-independence pressure and stale prison evidence prevent a stronger safety/friction judgment.
Published indicators
Freedom House · 2026
SourceMillennium Challenge Corporation · 2024
SourceMillennium Challenge Corporation · 2024
SourceWorld Prison Brief · 2016
SourceVerified evidence
Freedom House notes recent pressure on judicial independence despite Kiribati remaining a multiparty democracy with generally upheld civil liberties.
Freedom House
4% weightDurability, Repair & Material Return
+19.8
Whether useful materials, infrastructure and goods are maintained, repairable, recovered and cycled instead of repeatedly becoming waste.
TBFC target: Repair, maintenance and useful material circulation should protect capability instead of forcing repeated repurchase as the default route to continued use.
Access-gate research question: Do repair and maintenance remain practically accessible, or do pricing, proprietary restrictions and replacement incentives turn continued use into repeated purchasing?
Abundance Gap: +10.0
Kiribati has active waste auditing, toxic-material removal and regional recycling routes, but plastic accumulation and island disposal constraints remain severe material-return friction.
Published indicators
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme · 2019
SourceSecretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme · 2019
SourceSecretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme · 2024
SourceSecretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme · 2018
SourceSecretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme · 2025
SourceVerified evidence
SPREP published a 2025 Kiribati National Waste Audit Analysis Report to support policy, infrastructure and coordination.
SPREPTrott Bailey Family Civilization Target
The end state: life beyond monetary gatekeeping
Trott Bailey Family Civilization treats money as an exchange tool rather than a prerequisite for access to life. The long-run abundance target is that food, water, shelter, care, education, mobility, land access and ordinary public life remain reachable even when a person cannot pay.
This target is an authored civilization standard. The diagnostic evidence score can now draw from all 16 weighted categories. The five-part Money Gate remains a separate domestic threshold asking whether food, housing/land, healthcare, transportation and water/energy are genuinely reachable without payment before any civilization can cross zero.
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