Where is it better to live in Botswana or in Guyana?
To answer the question - which country - Botswana or Guyana, is more comfortable for living, let’s compare different constituents which make the standard of living:
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Perhaps, it’s difficult to argue that it’s better to live in a rich country than in a poor one. As of 2024 year data, the basic indicator of the economic development - GDP by purchasing power parity per capita - was:
● In Botswana - 20,2 thousand dollars,
● In Guyana - 79,5 thousand dollars.
Thus, according to the gross production per one person, Guyana leaves Botswana behind by %.
Where is the crime rate lower? up↑
One can evaluate the general level of criminal situation with the help of “crime rate”. This indicator is calculated by the portal Numbeo, which specializes in rating scores of different life aspects in all the world regions and shows how safe it is to live in the country from a risk of becoming a victim of lawbreakers (the higher the crime rate is, the higher the risk is). As of 2025 year, the crime rate is:
● in Botswana - 52.7;
● in Guyana - 66.3
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To estimate the population law-abidingness and law enforcement activity, let’s pay attention to the statics of premeditated murders and to the data about the number of Botswanans and Guyanese, being imprisoned.
Yearly out of 100 thousand people, murders kill:
● in Botswana - 10.55 people;
● in Guyana - 16.28 people
***As of 2023 year, in prisons and criminal camps the number of inmates is:
● in Botswana - 4.34 thousand, or 62 prisoners per 100,000 people;
● in Guyana - 1.88 thousand, or 239 prisoners per 100,000 people
So, if we consider the risks connected with the crimes, the safer country is definitely Botswana.
Where do people get sick less and live longer? up↑
The life quality is greatly defined by how long the people live. According to the latest data, the life expectancy is:
● in Botswana - 62.2 years (58.9 years among men and 65.5 years among women)
● in Guyana - 65.7 years (62.5 years among men and 69.4 years among women)
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To get an idea about the nation’s health and the system of health care, one should look at the spread of dangerous diseases in the country. Let’s compare where people often suffer from such diseases as HIV-infections, tuberculosis and cancer.
According to the data of the World Health Organization (WHO), the spread of HIV-infections is:
● in Botswana - 340000 of the infected (12.71% of population)
● in Guyana - 9600 of the infected (1.18% of population)
The number of people infected by tuberculosis is:
● in Botswana - 5800 people (253 per 100,000 people);
● in Guyana - 620 people (79 per 100,000 people)
The cancer situation is the following:
● in Botswana per 100 000 people yearly one finds 109.5 new cases of the disease and registers 63.4 lethal cases;
● in Guyana per 100k people every year one fixes 141.5 of newly infected people and 67.7 lethal cases from cancer.
We should not judge about the quality of medicine only by the number of cancer cases, we should look at the ratio between the number of new cases and the number of cancer deaths (the lower it is, the higher the rate of the cured ones is; consequently, the better the health care system works). In the countries under consideration, we see the following ratio between the newly-infected and the dead:
● in Botswana - ;
● in Guyana -
Where do people drink and smoke less? up↑
It’s considered that It’s more comfortable to live in that country where people are less exposed to bad habits. The following WHO data show that the situation with the alcohol consumption (pure alcohol) runs as this:
● in Botswana - 6.6 liters per every person older 15 years old (about 10.9 litres per every man and 2.5 litres per every woman);
● in Guyana - 6.9 liters per every person older 15 years old (about 11 litres per every man and 2.7 litres per every woman)
How noticeable are the differences in alcoholic beverages of the Botswanans and the Guyanese?
● in Botswana, in terms of pure alcohol, beer accounts for 56% % of consumption, wine accounts for 11.8% of consumption, strong drinks (vodka and cognac, etc.) account for 11.5% of consumption, other drinks (including home-made ones) - 20.7% of consumption;
● in Guyana beer accounts for 23% from the total amount of alcohol consumption, strong drinks - 76.6%
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Addiction to smoking in the countries under consideration is seen like that:
● in Botswana there are 18,7 % of active smokers among the adults (30,2 % of adult males and 7,2 % of adult females smoke there);
● in Guyana 11,1 % of adult population smoke on a constant base (20 % of men and 2,2 % of women)
By unit tobacco consumption per capita the leader is Botswana - here on average every adult smokes 433 cigarettes per year, against 359 cigarettes per capita in Guyana.
Where do people have more reasons to be satisfied with their lives? up↑
Perhaps, it’s very difficult to make up an indicator, with the help of which one can define how much the people of this or that country are satisfied by their lives. Nevertheless, there have been a couple of researches.
There is an overall index, is used by UNO - Human Development Index (HDI). This index considers various reasons why citizens feel comfortable. According to 2022 data, HDI in Botswana is 0.693; in Guyana - 0.714.
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To indirectly evaluate how much the people are satisfied with their lives, one can consider the number of suicides. It comes logically that the better the lives of the people are arranged, the fewer reasons for the suicides there are. In the countries under consideration, per 100 000 people there are:
● in Botswana - 20,2 suicides (35,5 among men and 7,8 among women) ;
● in Guyana - 40,9 suicides (65,0 among men and 17,0 among women)
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