Where is it better to live in Guyana or in Seychelles?
To answer the question - which country - Guyana or Seychelles, 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 Guyana - 79,5 thousand dollars,
● In Seychelles - 30,3 thousand dollars.
Thus, according to the gross production per one person, Guyana leaves Seychelles behind by %.
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 Guyanese and Seychellois, being imprisoned.
Yearly out of 100 thousand people, murders kill:
● in Guyana - 16.28 people;
● in Seychelles - 4.70 people
***As of 2023 year, in prisons and criminal camps the number of inmates is:
● in Guyana - 1.88 thousand, or 239 prisoners per 100,000 people;
● in Seychelles - 320, or 360 prisoners per 100,000 people
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 Guyana - 65.7 years (62.5 years among men and 69.4 years among women)
● in Seychelles - 73.3 years (70 years among men and 77.1 years among women)
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 Guyana - 6.9 liters per every person older 15 years old (about 11 litres per every man and 2.7 litres per every woman);
● in Seychelles - 20.5 liters per every person older 15 years old (about 32 litres per every man and 9.5 litres per every woman)
How noticeable are the differences in alcoholic beverages of the Guyanese and the Seychellois?
● in Guyana, in terms of pure alcohol, beer accounts for 23% % of consumption, wine accounts for 0.3% of consumption, strong drinks (vodka and cognac, etc.) account for 76.6%;
● in Seychelles beer accounts for 67% from the total amount of alcohol consumption, wine accounts for 22.2%, strong drinks - 10.8%
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Addiction to smoking in the countries under consideration is seen like that:
● in Guyana there are 11,1 % of active smokers among the adults (20 % of adult males and 2,2 % of adult females smoke there);
● in Seychelles 20,2 % of adult population smoke on a constant base (34,7 % of men and 5,8 % 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 Guyana is 0.714; in Seychelles - 0.785.
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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 Guyana - 40,9 suicides (65,0 among men and 17,0 among women) ;
● in Seychelles - 7,7 suicides (14,0 among men and 1,3 among women)
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