Quality of life comparison

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

Health

be 69.2% less likely to be obese

In Cook Islands, 72.4% of adults are obese as of 2024. In Moldova, that number is 22.3% of people as of 2024.

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have 54.3% more access to essential health services

Cook Islands scores 46 out of 100 on the universal health coverage index as of 2021. Moldova scores 71 as of 2021.

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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 Moldova, that number is 71 years (67 years for men, 76 years for women) as of 2024.

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Life

have 12.5% fewer children

In Cook Islands, there are approximately 12.1 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In Moldova, there are 10.6 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

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Basic Needs

be 19.4% more likely to have internet access

In Cook Islands, approximately 64.8% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Moldova, about 77.4% do as of 2024.

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Expenditures

spend 42.6% more on education

Cook Islands spends 4.6% of its total GDP on education as of 2021. Moldova spends 6.6% of total GDP on education as of 2023.

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spend 2.1 times more on healthcare

Cook Islands spends 3.2% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2020. In Moldova, that number is 6.7% of GDP as of 2023.

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Safety

be 48.3% less likely to die in a road accident

In Cook Islands, road accidents kill 17.6 people per 100,000 as of 2021. In Moldova, they kill 9.1 per 100,000 as of 2021.

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Infrastructure

find 62.6% more home broadband

Cook Islands has 18.2 fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people as of 2022. Moldova has 29.6 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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Moldova: At a glance

Moldova is a sovereign country in Europe, with a total land area of approximately 32,891 sq km. Part of Romania during the interwar period, Moldova was incorporated into the Soviet Union at the close of World War II. Although the country has been independent from the USSR since 1991, Russian forces have remained on Moldovan territory east of the Nistru River supporting the separatist region of Transnistria, composed of a Slavic majority population (mostly Ukrainians and Russians), but with a sizeable ethnic Moldovan minority. One of the poorest nations in Europe, Moldova became the first former Soviet state to elect a communist, Vladimir VORONIN, as its president in 2001. VORONIN served as Moldova's president until he resigned in September 2009, following the opposition's gain of a narrow majority in July parliamentary elections and the Communist Party's (PCRM) subsequent inability to attract the three-fifths of parliamentary votes required to elect a president and, by doing so, put into place a permanent government. Four Moldovan opposition parties formed a new coalition, the Alliance for European Integration (AEI), iterations of which have acted as Moldova's governing coalitions since. Moldova experienced significant political uncertainty between 2009 and early 2012, holding three general elections and numerous presidential ballots in parliament, all of which failed to secure a president. Following November 2010 parliamentary elections, a reconstituted AEI-coalition consisting of three of the four original AEI parties formed a government, and in March 2012 was finally able to elect an independent as president. As of late May 2013, the ruling coalition - comprised of two of the original AEI parties and a splinter group from a third - is called the Pro-European Coalition. In November 2013, the Moldovan Government initialed an Association Agreement with the European Union (EU), advancing the coalition's policy priority of EU integration.
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