Quality of life comparison

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

Health

be 88.9% less likely to be obese

In Cook Islands, 72.4% of adults are obese as of 2024. In India, that number is 8.0% of people as of 2024.

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have 37.0% more access to essential health services

Cook Islands scores 46 out of 100 on the universal health coverage index as of 2021. India scores 63 as of 2021.

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live 4.9 years less

In Cook Islands, the average life expectancy is 77 years (74 years for men, 80 years for women) as of 2022. In India, that number is 72 years (71 years for men, 74 years for women) as of 2024.

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have 46.2% fewer doctors per person

Cook Islands has 13.4 doctors per 10,000 people as of 2019. India has 7.2 as of 2020.

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Life

have 32.1% more children

In Cook Islands, there are approximately 12.1 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In India, there are 16.0 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

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be 46.3% 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 India, on the other hand, 23.3 children do as of 2024.

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Expenditures

spend 10.9% less on education

Cook Islands spends 4.6% of its total GDP on education as of 2021. India spends 4.1% of total GDP on education as of 2022.

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Geography

see 58.3 times more coastline

Cook Islands has a total of 120 km of coastline. In India, that number is 7,000 km.

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Safety

be 12.5% less likely to die in a road accident

In Cook Islands, road accidents kill 17.6 people per 100,000 as of 2021. In India, they kill 15.4 per 100,000 as of 2021.

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Infrastructure

find 82.7% less home broadband

Cook Islands has 18.2 fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people as of 2022. India has 3.1 as of 2024.

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Sources: The World Factbook (2021–2024), World Bank (2020–2024), United Nations SDG Indicators (2019–2022), World Health Organization (2024). How we calculate this

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India: At a glance

India is a sovereign country in South Asia, with a total land area of approximately 2,973,193 sq km. The Indus Valley civilization, one of the world's oldest, flourished during the 3rd and 2nd millennia B.C. and extended into northwestern India. Aryan tribes from the northwest infiltrated the Indian subcontinent about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. The Maurya Empire of the 4th and 3rd centuries B.C. - which reached its zenith under ASHOKA - united much of South Asia. The Golden Age ushered in by the Gupta dynasty (4th to 6th centuries A.D.) saw a flowering of Indian science, art, and culture. Islam spread across the subcontinent over a period of 700 years. In the 10th and 11th centuries, Turks and Afghans invaded India and established the Delhi Sultanate. In the early 16th century, the Emperor BABUR established the Mughal Dynasty which ruled India for more than three centuries. European explorers began establishing footholds in India during the 16th century. By the 19th century, Great Britain had become the dominant political power on the subcontinent. The British Indian Army played a vital role in both World Wars. Years of nonviolent resistance to British rule, led by Mohandas GANDHI and Jawaharlal NEHRU, eventually resulted in Indian independence, which was granted in 1947. Large-scale communal violence took place before and after the subcontinent partition into two separate states - India and Pakistan. The neighboring nations have fought three wars since independence, the last of which was in 1971 and resulted in East Pakistan becoming the separate nation of Bangladesh. India's nuclear weapons tests in 1998 emboldened Pakistan to conduct its own tests that same year. In November 2008, terrorists originating from Pakistan conducted a series of coordinated attacks in Mumbai, India's financial capital. Despite pressing problems such as significant overpopulation, environmental degradation, extensive poverty, and widespread corruption, economic growth following the launch of economic reforms in 1991 and a massive youthful population are driving India's emergence as a regional and global power.
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