Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Estonia instead of Guyana, you would:

Health

be 38.5% less likely to be living with HIV/AIDS

In Guyana, 1.3% of people are living with AIDS/HIV as of 2020. In Estonia, that number is 0.8% of people as of 2020.

live 6.0 years longer

In Guyana, the average life expectancy is 72 years (70 years for men, 74 years for women) as of 2022. In Estonia, that number is 78 years (73 years for men, 83 years for women) as of 2022.

Economy

be 54.7% less likely to be unemployed

In Guyana, 12.3% of adults are unemployed as of 2022. In Estonia, that number is 5.6% as of 2022.

be 34.9% less likely to live below the poverty line

In Guyana, 35.0% live below the poverty line as of 2006. In Estonia, however, that number is 22.8% as of 2021.

Life

be 95.5% less likely to die during childbirth

In Guyana, approximately 112.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2020. In Estonia, 5.0 women do as of 2020.

be 12.5% more likely to be literate

In Guyana, the literacy rate is 88.8% as of 2021. In Estonia, it is 99.9% as of 2021.

be 84.6% less likely to die during infancy

In Guyana, approximately 22.1 children (per 1,000 live births) die before they reach the age of one as of 2022. In Estonia, on the other hand, 3.4 children do as of 2022.

have 50.9% fewer children

In Guyana, there are approximately 16.7 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In Estonia, there are 8.2 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

Basic Needs

be 13.1% more likely to have internet access

In Guyana, approximately 85.0% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Estonia, about 96.1% do as of 2022.

Expenditures

spend 46.7% more on education

Guyana spends 4.5% of its total GDP on education as of 2018. Estonia spends 6.6% of total GDP on education as of 2020.

spend 41.8% more on healthcare

Guyana spends 5.5% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2020. In Estonia, that number is 7.8% of GDP as of 2020.

Geography

see 8.3 times more coastline

Guyana has a total of 459 km of coastline. In Estonia, that number is 3,794 km.

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

Estonia: At a glance

Estonia is a sovereign country in Europe, with a total land area of approximately 42,388 sq km. After centuries of Danish, Swedish, German, and Russian rule, Estonia attained independence in 1918. Forcibly incorporated into the USSR in 1940 - an action never recognized by the US - it regained its freedom in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Since the last Russian troops left in 1994, Estonia has been free to promote economic and political ties with the West. It joined both NATO and the EU in the spring of 2004, formally joined the OECD in late 2010, and adopted the euro as its official currency on 1 January 2011.
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