Where is it better to live in Madagascar or in Eswatini?
To answer the question - which country - Madagascar or Eswatini, 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 Madagascar - 1,84 thousand dollars,
● In Eswatini - 12 thousand dollars.
Thus, according to the gross production per one person, Eswatini leaves Madagascar 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 Madagascans and Residents Eswatini, being imprisoned.
Yearly out of 100 thousand people, murders kill:
● in Madagascar - 7.69 people;
● in Eswatini - 12.66 people
***As of 2023 year, in prisons and criminal camps the number of inmates is:
● in Madagascar - 27.9 thousand, or 102 prisoners per 100,000 people;
● in Eswatini - 3.78 thousand, or 277 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 Madagascar - 65.3 years (64.1 years among men and 66.6 years among women)
● in Eswatini - 57.7 years (53.4 years among men and 63.2 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 Madagascar - 70000 of the infected (0.23% of population)
● in Eswatini - 200000 of the infected (16.52% of population)
The number of people infected by tuberculosis is:
● in Madagascar - 63000 people (233 per 100,000 people);
● in Eswatini - 4200 people (363 per 100,000 people)
The cancer situation is the following:
● in Madagascar per 100 000 people yearly one finds 124.3 new cases of the disease and registers 87.7 lethal cases;
● in Eswatini per 100k people every year one fixes 127.9 of newly infected people and 82.2 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 Madagascar - ;
● in Eswatini -
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 Madagascar - 2 liters per every person older 15 years old (about 3.2 litres per every man and 0.8 litres per every woman);
● in Eswatini - 10 liters per every person older 15 years old (about 17 litres per every man and 3.8 litres per every woman)
How noticeable are the differences in alcoholic beverages of the Madagascans and the Residents Eswatini?
● in Madagascar, in terms of pure alcohol, beer accounts for 56% % of consumption, wine accounts for 9.5% of consumption, strong drinks (vodka and cognac, etc.) account for 34.5%;
● in Eswatini beer accounts for 33.6% from the total amount of alcohol consumption, strong drinks - 0.7%, all the rest (including braga, moonshine, etc. ) - 65%
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Addiction to smoking in the countries under consideration is seen like that:
● in Madagascar there are 26,8 % of active smokers among the adults (43 % of adult males and 10,7 % of adult females smoke there);
● in Eswatini 9,5 % of adult population smoke on a constant base (17,4 % of men and 1,5 % 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 Madagascar is 0.501; in Eswatini - 0.597.
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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 Madagascar - 9,2 suicides (13,3 among men and 5,4 among women) ;
● in Eswatini - 40,5 suicides (78,7 among men and 6,4 among women)
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