Where is it better to live in Vanuatu or in Papua New Guinea?
To answer the question - which country - Vanuatu or Papua New Guinea, 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 Vanuatu - 3,07 thousand dollars,
● In Papua New Guinea - 4,16 thousand dollars.
Thus, according to the gross production per one person, Papua New Guinea leaves Vanuatu behind by %.
Let’s compare the data about minimum labor level pay in both countries.
● The minimum wage in Vanuatu set at VA 38,100 (approximately US$ 320);
● The minimum wage in Papua New Guinea set at 140 kina (approximately US$ 43).
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 Vanuatu and Papuans, being imprisoned.
Yearly out of 100 thousand people, murders kill:
● in Vanuatu - 0.32 people;
● in Papua New Guinea - 7.85 people
***As of 2023 year, in prisons and criminal camps the number of inmates is:
● in Vanuatu - 202, or 72 prisoners per 100,000 people;
● in Papua New Guinea - 5.09 thousand, or 62 prisoners per 100,000 people
Overall, they kill more often in Papua New Guinea, one stays behind the bars more often in Vanuatu.
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 Vanuatu - 65.3 years (62.7 years among men and 68.3 years among women)
● in Papua New Guinea - 65.3 years (63.4 years among men and 67.4 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.
The number of people infected by tuberculosis is: ● in Vanuatu - 120 people (41 per 100,000 people); ● in Papua New Guinea - 38000 people (432 per 100,000 people)
The cancer situation is the following: ● in Vanuatu per 100 000 people yearly one finds 108.8 new cases of the disease and registers 69.4 lethal cases; ● in Papua New Guinea per 100k people every year one fixes 199.4 of newly infected people and 130.1 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 Vanuatu - ; ● in Papua New Guinea - 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 Vanuatu - 2.3 liters per every person older 15 years old (about 3.7 litres per every man and 0.8 litres per every woman); ● in Papua New Guinea - 1.4 liters per every person older 15 years old (about 2.3 litres per every man and 0.5 litres per every woman) How noticeable are the differences in alcoholic beverages of the Vanuatu and the Papuans? ● in Vanuatu, in terms of pure alcohol, beer accounts for 40.5% % of consumption, wine accounts for 22.8% of consumption, strong drinks (vodka and cognac, etc.) account for 36.7%;
● in Papua New Guinea beer accounts for 51.3% from the total amount of alcohol consumption, strong drinks - 47.7%
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Addiction to smoking in the countries under consideration is seen like that:
● in Vanuatu there are 18,6 % of active smokers among the adults;
● in Papua New Guinea 39,6 % of adult population smoke on a constant base
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 Vanuatu is 0.607; in Papua New Guinea - 0.558.
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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 Vanuatu - 21,0 suicides (33,1 among men and 9,0 among women) ;
● in Papua New Guinea - 3,6 suicides (5,2 among men and 1,9 among women)
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