Where is it better to live in Lesotho or in Panama?
To answer the question - which country - Lesotho or Panama, 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 Lesotho - 3,01 thousand dollars,
● In Panama - 40,9 thousand dollars.
Thus, according to the gross production per one person, Panama leaves Lesotho 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 Lesothians and Panamanians, being imprisoned.
Yearly out of 100 thousand people, murders kill:
● in Lesotho - 41.25 people;
● in Panama - 11.32 people
***As of 2023 year, in prisons and criminal camps the number of inmates is:
● in Lesotho - 2.07 thousand, or 92 prisoners per 100,000 people;
● in Panama - 22.2 thousand, or 499 prisoners per 100,000 people
Overall, they kill more often in Lesotho, one stays behind the bars more often in Panama.
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 Lesotho - 50.7 years (47.7 years among men and 54.2 years among women)
● in Panama - 79.3 years (76.6 years among men and 82.1 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 Lesotho - 270000 of the infected (11.59% of population)
● in Panama - 29000 of the infected (0.65% of population)
The number of people infected by tuberculosis is:
● in Lesotho - 14000 people (654 per 100,000 people);
● in Panama - 1600 people (37 per 100,000 people)
The cancer situation is the following:
● in Lesotho per 100 000 people yearly one finds 109 new cases of the disease and registers 74.8 lethal cases;
● in Panama per 100k people every year one fixes 151 of newly infected people and 70.2 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 Lesotho - ;
● in Panama -
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 Lesotho - 4.6 liters per every person older 15 years old (about 7.9 litres per every man and 1.6 litres per every woman);
● in Panama - 8 liters per every person older 15 years old (about 12.6 litres per every man and 3.4 litres per every woman)
How noticeable are the differences in alcoholic beverages of the Lesothians and the Panamanians?
● in Lesotho, in terms of pure alcohol, beer accounts for 51.3% % of consumption, wine accounts for 0.2% of consumption, strong drinks (vodka and cognac, etc.) account for 18.9% of consumption, other drinks (including home-made ones) - 29.6% of consumption;
● in Panama beer accounts for 69.2% from the total amount of alcohol consumption, wine accounts for 4.6%, strong drinks - 26%
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Addiction to smoking in the countries under consideration is seen like that:
● in Lesotho there are 24,3 % of active smokers among the adults (43,6 % of adult males and 5,1 % of adult females smoke there);
● in Panama 5,2 % of adult population smoke on a constant base (8,4 % of men and 1,9 % of women)
By unit tobacco consumption per capita the leader is Lesotho - here on average every adult smokes 448 cigarettes per year, against 219 cigarettes per capita in Panama.
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 Lesotho is 0.514; in Panama - 0.805.
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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 Lesotho - 87,5 suicides (146, among men and 34,6 among women) ;
● in Panama - 2,9 suicides (4,8 among men and 1,0 among women)
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