Quality of life comparison

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

Health

be 70.8% less likely to be obese

In Cook Islands, 72.4% of adults are obese as of 2024. In Kazakhstan, that number is 21.1% of people as of 2024.

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have 73.9% more access to essential health services

Cook Islands scores 46 out of 100 on the universal health coverage index as of 2021. Kazakhstan scores 80 as of 2021.

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live 2.6 years less

In Cook Islands, the average life expectancy is 77 years (74 years for men, 80 years for women) as of 2022. In Kazakhstan, that number is 75 years (70 years for men, 79 years for women) as of 2024.

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Life

be 53.5% 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 Kazakhstan, on the other hand, 7.4 children do as of 2024.

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have 61.3% more children

In Cook Islands, there are approximately 12.1 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In Kazakhstan, there are 19.5 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

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Basic Needs

be 44.1% more likely to have internet access

In Cook Islands, approximately 64.8% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Kazakhstan, about 93.4% do as of 2024.

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Expenditures

spend 17.8% more on healthcare

Cook Islands spends 3.2% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2020. In Kazakhstan, that number is 3.8% of GDP as of 2023.

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Safety

be 30.7% less likely to die in a road accident

In Cook Islands, road accidents kill 17.6 people per 100,000 as of 2021. In Kazakhstan, they kill 12.2 per 100,000 as of 2021.

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Infrastructure

find 15.9% less home broadband

Cook Islands has 18.2 fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people as of 2022. Kazakhstan has 15.3 as of 2024.

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Sources: World Bank (2023–2024), The World Factbook (2020–2024), United Nations SDG Indicators (2021–2022), World Health Organization (2024). How we calculate this

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Kazakhstan: At a glance

Kazakhstan is a sovereign country in Central Asia, with a total land area of approximately 2,699,700 sq km. Ethnic Kazakhs, a mix of Turkic and Mongol nomadic tribes who migrated to the region by the 13th century, were rarely united as a single nation. The area was conquered by Russia in the 18th century, and Kazakhstan became a Soviet Republic in 1936. During the 1950s and 1960s agricultural "Virgin Lands" program, Soviet citizens were encouraged to help cultivate Kazakhstan's northern pastures. This influx of immigrants (mostly Russians, but also some other deported nationalities) skewed the ethnic mixture and enabled non-ethnic Kazakhs to outnumber natives. Non-Muslim ethnic minorities departed Kazakhstan in large numbers from the mid-1990s through the mid-2000s and a national program has repatriated about a million ethnic Kazakhs back to Kazakhstan. These trends have allowed Kazakhs to become the titular majority again. This dramatic demographic shift has also undermined the previous religious diversity and made the country more than 70 percent Muslim. Kazakhstan's economy is larger than those of all the other Central Asian states largely due to the country's vast natural resources. Current issues include: developing a cohesive national identity; managing Islamic revivalism; expanding the development of the country's vast energy resources and exporting them to world markets; diversifying the economy outside the oil, gas, and mining sectors; enhancing Kazakhstan's economic competitiveness; developing a multiparty parliament and advancing political and social reform; and strengthening relations with neighboring states and other foreign powers.
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