Where is it better to live in Cape Verde or in Chile?
To answer the question - which country - Cape Verde or Chile, 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 Cape Verde - 11,1 thousand dollars,
● In Chile - 34,1 thousand dollars.
Thus, according to the gross production per one person, Chile leaves Cape Verde behind by %.
Let’s compare the data about minimum and average labor level pay in both countries.
● The minimum wage in Cape Verde set at 13,000 escudos (approximately US$ 145);
● The minimum wage in Chile set at 511,500 Chilean pesos (approximately $506).
The average gross salary (before the taxes and other mandatory fees) is:
● in Cape Verde - 49.8 thousand escudos (516 US$);
● in Chile - 958,000 Chilean pesos (about 1100 US$).
The average net salary (i.e. the sum, given to the workers after the tax pay) is a bit lower:
● in Cape Verde - 40,800 escudos (423 US$);
● in Chile - 890,700 Chilean pesos (about 1000 US$).
Where is the crime rate lower? up↑
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 Residents Cape Verdeans and Chileans, being imprisoned.
Yearly out of 100 thousand people, murders kill:
● in Cape Verde - 6.18 people;
● in Chile - 6.74 people
***As of 2023 year, in prisons and criminal camps the number of inmates is:
● in Cape Verde - 1.55 thousand, or 296 prisoners per 100,000 people;
● in Chile - 39 thousand, or 212 prisoners per 100,000 people
Overall, they kill more often in Chile, one stays behind the bars more often in Cape Verde.
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 Cape Verde - 74 years (69.9 years among men and 77.9 years among women)
● in Chile - 80.7 years (78.1 years among men and 83.2 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 Cape Verde - 3600 of the infected (0.60% of population)
● in Chile - 83000 of the infected (0.42% of population)
The number of people infected by tuberculosis is:
● in Cape Verde - 250 people (46 per 100,000 people);
● in Chile - 3300 people (18 per 100,000 people)
The cancer situation is the following:
● in Cape Verde per 100 000 people yearly one finds 179 new cases of the disease and registers 107.6 lethal cases;
● in Chile per 100k people every year one fixes 180.9 of newly infected people and 87.4 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 Cape Verde - ;
● in Chile -
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 Cape Verde - 5.6 liters per every person older 15 years old (about 8.8 litres per every man and 2.4 litres per every woman);
● in Chile - 9.1 liters per every person older 15 years old (about 13.9 litres per every man and 4.4 litres per every woman)
How noticeable are the differences in alcoholic beverages of the Residents Cape Verdeans and the Chileans?
● in Cape Verde, in terms of pure alcohol, beer accounts for 44.4% % of consumption, wine accounts for 1.2% of consumption, strong drinks (vodka and cognac, etc.) account for 0.2% of consumption, other drinks (including home-made ones) - 54.2% of consumption;
● in Chile beer accounts for 29.9% from the total amount of alcohol consumption, wine accounts for 40.7%, strong drinks - 29.4%
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Addiction to smoking in the countries under consideration is seen like that:
● in Cape Verde there are 11 % of active smokers among the adults (16,7 % of adult males and 5,2 % of adult females smoke there);
● in Chile 28,7 % of adult population smoke on a constant base (30,8 % of men and 26,7 % of women)
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 Cape Verde is 0.662; in Chile - 0.855.
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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 Cape Verde - 15,2 suicides (27,4 among men and 5,1 among women) ;
● in Chile - 8,0 suicides (13,4 among men and 3,0 among women)
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