Quality of life comparison

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

Health

be 61.2% less likely to be obese

In Cook Islands, 72.4% of adults are obese as of 2024. In Greenland, that number is 28.1% of people as of 2024.

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live 6.9 years less

In Cook Islands, the average life expectancy is 77 years (74 years for men, 80 years for women) as of 2022. In Greenland, that number is 70 years (68 years for men, 72 years for women) as of 2024.

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Life

be 45.1% less 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 Greenland, on the other hand, 8.8 children do as of 2022.

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Expenditures

spend 2.2 times more on education

Cook Islands spends 4.6% of its total GDP on education as of 2021. Greenland spends 10.2% of total GDP on education as of 2019.

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Geography

see 367.4 times more coastline

Cook Islands has a total of 120 km of coastline. In Greenland, that number is 44,087 km.

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Infrastructure

find 75.5% more home broadband

Cook Islands has 18.2 fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people as of 2022. Greenland has 32.0 as of 2022.

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

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Greenland: At a glance

Greenland is a sovereign country in North America, with a total land area of approximately 2,166,086 sq km. Greenland, the world's largest island, is about 81% ice-capped. Vikings reached the island in the 10th century from Iceland; Danish colonization began in the 18th century, and Greenland was made an integral part of Denmark in 1953. It joined the European Community (now the EU) with Denmark in 1973 but withdrew in 1985 over a dispute centered on stringent fishing quotas. Greenland was granted self-government in 1979 by the Danish parliament; the law went into effect the following year. Greenland voted in favor of increased self-rule in November 2008 and acquired greater responsibility for internal affairs when the Act on Greenland Self-Government was signed into law in June 2009. Denmark, however, continues to exercise control over several policy areas on behalf of Greenland including foreign affairs, security, and financial policy in consultation with Greenland's Self-Rule Government.
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