Where is it better to live in Malawi or in Slovakia?
To answer the question - which country - Malawi or Slovakia, 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 Malawi - 1,81 thousand dollars,
● In Slovakia - 45,1 thousand dollars.
Thus, according to the gross production per one person, Slovakia leaves Malawi 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 Malawians and Slovaks, being imprisoned.
Yearly out of 100 thousand people, murders kill:
● in Malawi - 1.73 people;
● in Slovakia - 0.74 people
***As of 2023 year, in prisons and criminal camps the number of inmates is:
● in Malawi - 14 thousand, or 71 prisoners per 100,000 people;
● in Slovakia - 10.6 thousand, or 189 prisoners per 100,000 people
Overall, they kill more often in Malawi, one stays behind the bars more often in Slovakia.
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 Malawi - 65.6 years (62.3 years among men and 68.9 years among women)
● in Slovakia - 78.2 years (74.8 years among men and 81.4 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 Malawi - 1000000 of the infected (4.78% of population)
● in Slovakia - 1500 of the infected (0.03% of population)
The number of people infected by tuberculosis is:
● in Malawi - 27000 people (146 per 100,000 people);
● in Slovakia - 250 people (5 per 100,000 people)
The cancer situation is the following:
● in Malawi per 100 000 people yearly one finds 154.2 new cases of the disease and registers 113.4 lethal cases;
● in Slovakia per 100k people every year one fixes 296.8 of newly infected people and 141.3 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 Malawi - ;
● in Slovakia -
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 Malawi - 3.6 liters per every person older 15 years old (about 6 litres per every man and 1.4 litres per every woman);
● in Slovakia - 11.1 liters per every person older 15 years old (about 17.4 litres per every man and 5.4 litres per every woman)
How noticeable are the differences in alcoholic beverages of the Malawians and the Slovaks?
● in Malawi, in terms of pure alcohol, beer accounts for 9.1% % of consumption, wine accounts for 1.2% of consumption, strong drinks (vodka and cognac, etc.) account for 13.4% of consumption, other drinks (including home-made ones) - 76.2% of consumption;
● in Slovakia beer accounts for 30.1% from the total amount of alcohol consumption, wine accounts for 18.3%, strong drinks - 46.2%, all the rest (including braga, moonshine, etc. ) - 5.5%
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Addiction to smoking in the countries under consideration is seen like that:
● in Malawi there are 9,7 % of active smokers among the adults (16,4 % of adult males and 3 % of adult females smoke there);
● in Slovakia 32,4 % of adult population smoke on a constant base (36,3 % of men and 28,5 % of women)
By unit tobacco consumption per capita the leader is Slovakia - here on average every adult smokes 1501 cigarettes per year, against 241 cigarettes per capita in Malawi.
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.
For example, the UN experts calculate a so-called "Rating of countries by the Happiness Index”, which helps to understand to what degree the states provide their citizens with the happy life. As of 2023 data, the happiest ones are Slovaks, their happiness index is 6.469, meanwhile in Malawi the happiness index is equal to 3.495.
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There is also an overall index, which is used by UNO - Human Development Index (HDI). This index considers various reasons why citizens feel comfortable. According to 2022 data, HDI in Malawi is 0.512; in Slovakia - 0.848.
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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 Malawi - 10,6 suicides (20,0 among men and 3,3 among women) ;
● in Slovakia - 9,3 suicides (16,7 among men and 2,6 among women)
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