Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Honduras instead of Ghana, you would:

Health

be 88.2% less likely to be living with HIV/AIDS

In Ghana, 1.7% of people are living with AIDS/HIV as of 2020. In Honduras, that number is 0.2% of people as of 2020.

live 5.8 years longer

In Ghana, the average life expectancy is 69 years (68 years for men, 71 years for women) as of 2022. In Honduras, that number is 75 years (72 years for men, 79 years for women) as of 2022.

be 96.3% more likely to be obese

In Ghana, 10.9% of adults are obese as of 2016. In Honduras, that number is 21.4% of people as of 2016.

Economy

be 96.8% more likely to be unemployed

In Ghana, 3.1% of adults are unemployed as of 2023. In Honduras, that number is 6.1% as of 2023.

be 2.1 times more likely to live below the poverty line

In Ghana, 23.4% live below the poverty line as of 2016. In Honduras, however, that number is 48.0% as of 2019.

Life

be 72.6% less likely to die during childbirth

In Ghana, approximately 263.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2020. In Honduras, 72.0 women do as of 2020.

be 12.0% more likely to be literate

In Ghana, the literacy rate is 79.0% as of 2018. In Honduras, it is 88.5% as of 2019.

be 53.7% less likely to die during infancy

In Ghana, approximately 32.6 children (per 1,000 live births) die before they reach the age of one as of 2022. In Honduras, on the other hand, 15.1 children do as of 2022.

have 27.9% fewer children

In Ghana, there are approximately 27.6 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In Honduras, there are 19.9 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

Basic Needs

be 10.9% more likely to have access to electricity

In Ghana, approximately 85% of people have electricity access (95% in urban areas, and 74% in rural areas) as of 2022. In Honduras, that number is 94% of people on average (100% in urban areas, and 86% in rural areas) as of 2022.

be 29.4% less likely to have internet access

In Ghana, approximately 68.0% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Honduras, about 48.0% do as of 2021.

Expenditures

spend 60.0% more on education

Ghana spends 4.0% of its total GDP on education as of 2018. Honduras spends 6.4% of total GDP on education as of 2020.

spend 2.2 times more on healthcare

Ghana spends 4.0% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2020. In Honduras, that number is 9.0% of GDP as of 2020.

Geography

see 52.7% more coastline

Ghana has a total of 539 km of coastline. In Honduras, that number is 823 km.

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

Honduras: At a glance

Honduras is a sovereign country in Central America/Caribbean, with a total land area of approximately 111,890 sq km. Once part of Spain's vast empire in the New World, Honduras became an independent nation in 1821. After two and a half decades of mostly military rule, a freely elected civilian government came to power in 1982. During the 1980s, Honduras proved a haven for anti-Sandinista contras fighting the Marxist Nicaraguan Government and an ally to Salvadoran Government forces fighting leftist guerrillas. The country was devastated by Hurricane Mitch in 1998, which killed about 5,600 people and caused approximately $2 billion in damage. Since then, the economy has slowly rebounded.
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