Where you could be born / Oceania / Polynesia
Born in Cook Islands
About 1 in 660,550 people born in 2023 started life in Cook Islands. A boy can expect to live 72 years and a girl 79, up from 39 and 37 in 1950.
Life and health
Life lasts about 37 years longer than in 1950. Child deaths fell from 195 in every 1,000 births to 6.7.
GirlsBoys
Years a baby born that year could expect to live.
In every 1,000 births.
Family
Women had 6.8 children on average in 1950. Now it is 2.0, below the 2.1 it takes to keep a population steady.
Average over a lifetime.
Daily life
The largest city is Avarua, with 13,373 people.
People on the move
About 148% as many people born here live abroad as live here. The most common destinations are New Zealand, Australia, Fiji.
Safety nets
67% of older people receive a pension. Help for someone who loses a job reaches 0%.
Events in the data
The game draws real events from these records, so a life lived here can meet them.
Now live it.
Born in Cook Islands, to a family drawn from these numbers. Every life replays exactly from its seed.
Elsewhere in Oceania
How to read the sources. Every figure is sourced to a named dataset, shown beside it. A figure marked "Extrapolated" is estimated by a model because no survey covers the year. UN figures are for 2023, the latest year of UN estimates; other figures are the latest year their dataset has. Rank 1 is the highest figure among 230 countries and territories. All sources and licences