Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in Djibouti instead of Cook Islands, you would:

Health

be 83.9% less likely to be obese

In Cook Islands, 72.4% of adults are obese as of 2024. In Djibouti, that number is 11.7% of people as of 2024.

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live 10.9 years less

In Cook Islands, the average life expectancy is 77 years (74 years for men, 80 years for women) as of 2022. In Djibouti, that number is 66 years (64 years for men, 69 years for women) as of 2024.

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have 84.3% fewer doctors per person

Cook Islands has 13.4 doctors per 10,000 people as of 2019. Djibouti has 2.1 as of 2022.

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Life

have 73.0% more children

In Cook Islands, there are approximately 12.1 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In Djibouti, there are 20.9 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

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be 2.7 times more likely to die during infancy

In Cook Islands, approximately 15.9 children (per 1,000 live births) die before they reach the age of one as of 2022. In Djibouti, on the other hand, 43.0 children do as of 2024.

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Expenditures

spend 18.5% less on education

Cook Islands spends 4.6% of its total GDP on education as of 2021. Djibouti spends 3.8% of total GDP on education as of 2018.

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spend 28.8% less on healthcare

Cook Islands spends 3.2% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2020. In Djibouti, that number is 2.3% of GDP as of 2023.

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Geography

see 2.6 times more coastline

Cook Islands has a total of 120 km of coastline. In Djibouti, that number is 314 km.

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Safety

be 32.4% more likely to die in a road accident

In Cook Islands, road accidents kill 17.6 people per 100,000 as of 2021. In Djibouti, they kill 23.3 per 100,000 as of 2021.

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Infrastructure

find 91.9% less home broadband

Cook Islands has 18.2 fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people as of 2022. Djibouti has 1.5 as of 2023.

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Sources: The World Factbook (2020–2024), World Bank (2018–2024), United Nations SDG Indicators (2019–2022), World Health Organization (2024). How we calculate this

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Djibouti: At a glance

Djibouti is a sovereign country in Africa, with a total land area of approximately 23,180 sq km. The French Territory of the Afars and the Issas became Djibouti in 1977. Hassan Gouled APTIDON installed an authoritarian one-party state and proceeded to serve as president until 1999. Unrest among the Afar minority during the 1990s led to a civil war that ended in 2001 with a peace accord between Afar rebels and the Somali Issa-dominated government. In 1999, Djibouti's first multiparty presidential elections resulted in the election of Ismail Omar GUELLEH as president; he was reelected to a second term in 2005 and extended his tenure in office via a constitutional amendment, which allowed him to begin a third term in 2011. Djibouti occupies a strategic geographic location at the intersection of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden and serves as an important shipping portal for goods entering and leaving the east African highlands and transshipments between Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. The government holds longstanding ties to France, which maintains a significant military presence in the country, and has strong ties with the United States. Djibouti hosts several thousand members of US armed services at US-run Camp Lemonnier.
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