Quality of life comparison

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

Health

be 60.2% less likely to be obese

In Cook Islands, 72.4% of adults are obese as of 2024. In Turkey, that number is 28.8% of people as of 2024.

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have 66.2% more doctors per person

Cook Islands has 13.4 doctors per 10,000 people as of 2019. Turkey has 22.4 as of 2022.

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have 65.2% more access to essential health services

Cook Islands scores 46 out of 100 on the universal health coverage index as of 2021. Turkey scores 76 as of 2021.

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Life

be 49.8% 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 Turkey, on the other hand, 8.0 children do as of 2024.

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Expenditures

spend 32.6% less on education

Cook Islands spends 4.6% of its total GDP on education as of 2021. Turkey spends 3.1% of total GDP on education as of 2022.

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spend 33.8% more on healthcare

Cook Islands spends 3.2% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2020. In Turkey, that number is 4.3% of GDP as of 2023.

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Geography

see 60.0 times more coastline

Cook Islands has a total of 120 km of coastline. In Turkey, that number is 7,200 km.

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Safety

be 63.1% less likely to die in a road accident

In Cook Islands, road accidents kill 17.6 people per 100,000 as of 2021. In Turkey, they kill 6.5 per 100,000 as of 2021.

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Infrastructure

find 28.6% more home broadband

Cook Islands has 18.2 fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people as of 2022. Turkey has 23.4 as of 2024.

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

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Turkey: At a glance

Turkey is a sovereign country in Middle East, with a total land area of approximately 769,632 sq km. Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk or "Father of the Turks." Under his leadership, the country adopted wide-ranging social, legal, and political reforms. After a period of one-party rule, an experiment with multi-party politics led to the 1950 election victory of the opposition Democratic Party and the peaceful transfer of power. Since then, Turkish political parties have multiplied, but democracy has been fractured by periods of instability and intermittent military coups (1960, 1971, 1980), which in each case eventually resulted in a return of political power to civilians. In 1997, the military again helped engineer the ouster - popularly dubbed a "post-modern coup" - of the then Islamic-oriented government. Turkey intervened militarily on Cyprus in 1974 to prevent a Greek takeover of the island and has since acted as patron state to the "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus," which only Turkey recognizes. A separatist insurgency begun in 1984 by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) - now known as the Kurdistan People's Congress or Kongra-Gel (KGK) - has dominated the Turkish military's attention and claimed more than 30,000 lives. After the capture of the group's leader in 1999, the insurgents largely withdrew from Turkey mainly to northern Iraq. In 2013, KGK and the Turkish Government agreed to a ceasefire that continues despite slow progress in ongoing peace talks. Turkey joined the UN in 1945 and in 1952 it became a member of NATO. In 1964, Turkey became an associate member of the European Community. Over the past decade, it has undertaken many reforms to strengthen its democracy and economy; it began accession membership talks with the European Union in 2005.
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