Quality of life comparison

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

Health

be 55.1% less likely to be obese

In Cook Islands, 72.4% of adults are obese as of 2024. In Dominica, that number is 32.5% of people as of 2024.

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live 5.8 years less

In Cook Islands, the average life expectancy is 77 years (74 years for men, 80 years for women) as of 2022. In Dominica, that number is 71 years (68 years for men, 75 years for women) as of 2024.

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have 13.9% fewer doctors per person

Cook Islands has 13.4 doctors per 10,000 people as of 2019. Dominica has 11.6 as of 2018.

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Life

be 2.1 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 Dominica, on the other hand, 33.3 children do as of 2024.

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Basic Needs

be 26.6% more likely to have internet access

In Cook Islands, approximately 64.8% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Dominica, about 82.0% do as of 2024.

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Expenditures

spend 17.2% more on education

Cook Islands spends 4.6% of its total GDP on education as of 2021. Dominica spends 5.4% of total GDP on education as of 2024.

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spend 56.6% more on healthcare

Cook Islands spends 3.2% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2020. In Dominica, that number is 5.0% of GDP as of 2023.

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Geography

see 23.3% more coastline

Cook Islands has a total of 120 km of coastline. In Dominica, that number is 148 km.

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Safety

be 37.5% less likely to die in a road accident

In Cook Islands, road accidents kill 17.6 people per 100,000 as of 2021. In Dominica, they kill 11.0 per 100,000 as of 2021.

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Infrastructure

find 14.5% more home broadband

Cook Islands has 18.2 fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people as of 2022. Dominica has 20.9 as of 2022.

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

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Dominica: At a glance

Dominica is a sovereign country in Central America/Caribbean, with a total land area of approximately 751 sq km. Dominica was the last of the Caribbean islands to be colonized by Europeans due chiefly to the fierce resistance of the native Caribs. France ceded possession to Great Britain in 1763, which made the island a colony in 1805. In 1980, two years after independence, Dominica's fortunes improved when a corrupt and tyrannical administration was replaced by that of Mary Eugenia CHARLES, the first female prime minister in the Caribbean, who remained in office for 15 years. Some 3,000 Carib Indians still living on Dominica are the only pre-Columbian population remaining in the eastern Caribbean.
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