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As you can see on the graph, Ghana’s literacy rate is 57.9% is only about half of Ireland’s 99%. Also, you will notice that in Ghana, men are given the priority when it comes to education. Ghanaian men have an average literacy rate of 66.4% whereas that of women is only 49.8%. However, Ireland has an equal literacy rate between both men and women: 99%. With the little literacy rate, it is probably very difficult for companies to find people who are adequate to qualify for the job. We believe that employment must be a much easier business in Ireland.

Moving on, we would like to talk about the health conditions in the two countries. As you can see on table, the life expectancy in Ghana is 59.49 years and that of Ireland is 78.07 years. Obviously, the latter is way higher than Ghana’s, and this ensure us of  generally more satisfied and content population in Ireland. Also, we think that the low life expectancy in Ghana could be due to lesser qualified doctors, which is probably due to the low literacy rate. Both countries seem to follow a similar pattern when it comes to the difference between the two sexes in their lifespan: women have a higher one in both countries. In Ghana, men live for approximately 58.65 years whereas women live for 60.35 years at an average. In Ireland, the life expectancy of men is 75.44 years whereas that of women is 80.88 years. When it comes to infant mortality in the two countries, Ireland loses only 5.14 children in a thousand live births, at an average, whilst Ghana loses more than ten times that of Ireland: 52.31 deaths. Again, both the countries have something similar: the female infant mortality rate is lesser than that of men in both countries. Next, we would like to compare the percentage of population that is HIV Positive in the two countries. Only 0.06737% Ireland’s total population has HIV AIDS. On the other hand, we have Ghana, in which 1.4968% of the total population is HIV Positive. Neither of the two countries has been hit by the disease too hard but again, Ghana proves to have more health problems than Ireland does.

Lastly, we would like to point out the differences between Ghana and Ireland. As you can see on the table, Ireland’s Gross National Product is US $40,232 which is almost twice of Ghana’s: US $2,700. Ghana’s economy is mostly dependant on agriculture whereas Ireland has modernized, and now it’s economy mostly relies on trade and export. However, Ireland’s economy has been depreciating continuously. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has predicted a further fall in the next two years. Recently, in September, the Irish banking system was on the verge of collapsing before it was literally saved by the government.

Ghana was the first African country to celebrate its’ 50th year of independence whereas Ireland celebrated the 87th year of independence on December 6 this year.