Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Sao Tome and Principe instead of Namibia, you would:

Health

be 97.4% less likely to be living with HIV/AIDS

In Namibia, 11.6% of people are living with AIDS/HIV as of 2020. In Sao Tome and Principe, that number is 0.3% of people as of 2020.

be 27.9% less likely to be obese

In Namibia, 17.2% of adults are obese as of 2016. In Sao Tome and Principe, that number is 12.4% of people as of 2016.

Economy

be 64.1% less likely to be unemployed

In Namibia, 34.0% of adults are unemployed as of 2016. In Sao Tome and Principe, that number is 12.2% as of 2017.

make 53.9% less money

Namibia has a GDP per capita of $8,900 as of 2020, while in Sao Tome and Principe, the GDP per capita is $4,100 as of 2020.

be 3.8 times more likely to live below the poverty line

In Namibia, 17.4% live below the poverty line as of 2015. In Sao Tome and Principe, however, that number is 66.7% as of 2017.

Life

be 33.3% less likely to die during childbirth

In Namibia, approximately 195.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2017. In Sao Tome and Principe, 130.0 women do as of 2017.

have 12.7% more children

In Namibia, there are approximately 25.0 babies per 1,000 people as of 2022. In Sao Tome and Principe, there are 28.2 babies per 1,000 people as of 2022.

be 50.8% more likely to die during infancy

In Namibia, approximately 29.4 children (per 1,000 live births) die before they reach the age of one as of 2022. In Sao Tome and Principe, on the other hand, 44.4 children do as of 2022.

Basic Needs

be 24.6% more likely to have access to electricity

In Namibia, approximately 57% of people have electricity access (78% in urban areas, and 36% in rural areas) as of 2019. In Sao Tome and Principe, that number is 71% of people on average (87% in urban areas, and 25% in rural areas) as of 2019.

be 19.5% less likely to have internet access

In Namibia, approximately 41.0% of the population has internet access as of 2020. In Sao Tome and Principe, about 33.0% do as of 2020.

Expenditures

spend 37.2% less on education

Namibia spends 9.4% of its total GDP on education as of 2020. Sao Tome and Principe spends 5.9% of total GDP on education as of 2019.

spend 35.3% less on healthcare

Namibia spends 8.5% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2019. In Sao Tome and Principe, that number is 5.5% of GDP as of 2019.

Geography

see 86.7% less coastline

Namibia has a total of 1,572 km of coastline. In Sao Tome and Principe, that number is 209 km.

The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook.

Sao Tome and Principe: At a glance

Sao Tome and Principe is a sovereign country in Africa, with a total land area of approximately 964 sq km. Discovered and claimed by Portugal in the late 15th century, the islands' sugar-based economy gave way to coffee and cocoa in the 19th century - all grown with African plantation slave labor, a form of which lingered into the 20th century. While independence was achieved in 1975, democratic reforms were not instituted until the late 1980s. The country held its first free elections in 1991, but frequent internal wrangling between the various political parties precipitated repeated changes in leadership and two failed coup attempts in 1995 and 2003. In 2012, three opposition parties combined in a no confidence vote to bring down the majority government of former Prime Minister Patrice TROVOADA. The new government of Prime Minister Gabriel Arcanjo Ferreira DA COSTA is entirely composed of opposition party members with limited experience in governance. New oil discoveries in the Gulf of Guinea may attract increased attention to the small island nation.
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