Where is it better to live in South Sudan or in Uganda?
To answer the question - which country - South Sudan or Uganda, 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 South Sudan - 0,95 thousand dollars,
● In Uganda - 3,35 thousand dollars.
Thus, according to the gross production per one person, Uganda leaves South Sudan 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 South Sudanese and Ugandans, being imprisoned.
Yearly out of 100 thousand people, murders kill:
● in South Sudan - 13.90 people;
● in Uganda - 8.53 people
***As of 2023 year, in prisons and criminal camps the number of inmates is:
● in South Sudan - 7 thousand, or 50 prisoners per 100,000 people;
● in Uganda - 67.3 thousand, or 124 prisoners per 100,000 people
Overall, they kill more often in South Sudan, one stays behind the bars more often in Uganda.
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 South Sudan - 62.8 years (60.8 years among men and 64.8 years among women)
● in Uganda - 66.7 years (63.2 years among men and 70.1 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 South Sudan - 160000 of the infected (1.44% of population)
● in Uganda - 1400000 of the infected (2.88% of population)
The number of people infected by tuberculosis is:
● in South Sudan - 25000 people (227 per 100,000 people);
● in Uganda - 88000 people (200 per 100,000 people)
The cancer situation is the following:
● in South Sudan per 100 000 people yearly one finds 94.7 new cases of the disease and registers 72.2 lethal cases;
● in Uganda per 100k people every year one fixes 153.8 of newly infected people and 112.4 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 South Sudan - ;
● in Uganda -
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 South Sudan is 0.385; in Uganda - 0.525.
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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 South Sudan - 6,7 suicides (10,4 among men and 3,4 among women) ;
● in Uganda - 10,4 suicides (19,4 among men and 3,7 among women)
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