Where is it better to live in Sierra Leone or in Timor-Leste?
To answer the question - which country - Sierra Leone or Timor-Leste, 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 Sierra Leone - 3,44 thousand dollars,
● In Timor-Leste - 4,67 thousand dollars.
Thus, according to the gross production per one person, Timor-Leste leaves Sierra Leone 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 Sierra Leoneans and Timorese, being imprisoned.
Yearly out of 100 thousand people, murders kill:
● in Sierra Leone - 2.14 people;
● in Timor-Leste - 3.95 people
***As of 2023 year, in prisons and criminal camps the number of inmates is:
● in Sierra Leone - 4.73 thousand, or 60 prisoners per 100,000 people;
● in Timor-Leste - 695, or 52 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 Sierra Leone - 60.8 years (59.6 years among men and 61.9 years among women)
● in Timor-Leste - 69.6 years (67.9 years among men and 71.4 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 Sierra Leone - 77000 of the infected (0.88% of population)
● in Timor-Leste - 1500 of the infected (0.11% of population)
The number of people infected by tuberculosis is:
● in Sierra Leone - 23000 people (295 per 100,000 people);
● in Timor-Leste - 6400 people (498 per 100,000 people)
The cancer situation is the following:
● in Sierra Leone per 100 000 people yearly one finds 102.1 new cases of the disease and registers 76.9 lethal cases;
● in Timor-Leste per 100k people every year one fixes 89.7 of newly infected people and 61.9 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 Sierra Leone - ;
● in Timor-Leste -
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 Sierra Leone - 5.7 liters per every person older 15 years old (about 9.9 litres per every man and 1.6 litres per every woman);
● in Timor-Leste - 2.2 liters per every person older 15 years old (about 3.4 litres per every man and 0.9 litres per every woman)
How noticeable are the differences in alcoholic beverages of the Sierra Leoneans and the Timorese?
● in Sierra Leone, in terms of pure alcohol, beer accounts for 40.7% % of consumption, wine accounts for 48% of consumption, strong drinks (vodka and cognac, etc.) account for 5.5% of consumption, other drinks (including home-made ones) - 5.8% of consumption;
● in Timor-Leste beer accounts for 9.3% from the total amount of alcohol consumption, wine accounts for 75.9%, strong drinks - 14.8%
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Addiction to smoking in the countries under consideration is seen like that:
● in Sierra Leone there are 12,9 % of active smokers among the adults (19,8 % of adult males and 5,9 % of adult females smoke there);
● in Timor-Leste 38,7 % of adult population smoke on a constant base (67 % of men and 10,5 % 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 Sierra Leone is 0.477; in Timor-Leste - 0.607.
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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 Sierra Leone - 11,3 suicides (14,8 among men and 8,2 among women) ;
● in Timor-Leste - 4,5 suicides (6,7 among men and 2,4 among women)
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