The Most Corrupt Countries in the World
click to enlarge The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) just released for 2012 by Transparency International ranks 176 nations according to the perceived corruption levels of their public institutions....
View ArticleThe Happiest Countries on Earth
click to enlarge MIT’s Technology Review magazine created a map of the 40 happiest countries in the world, based on research data from Columbia University’s Earth Institute. According to the list,...
View ArticleThe Most and Least Peaceful Countries
click to enlarge Vision for Humanity has compiled the Global Peace Index (GPI) for 2012. The GPI is a composite index that measures the peacefulness of countries around the world. It considers 23...
View ArticleVulnerability to Climate Change
The Global Adaptation Institute (GAIN) created the GAIN Index to measure the vulnerability of countries to climate change, combined with how well prepared these countries are to face the global...
View ArticleCancer Death Rates for Men and Women
Cancer affects both women and men globally. However, cancer death rates are different for each gender, as can be seen in the two maps displayed in this article. We find the highest cancer death rates...
View ArticleThe Quality of Democracy by Country
Global Democracy Ranking released the Democracy Ranking for the year 2012, which shows the quality of democracy around the world. Several indicators were used to calculate the Global Democracy Ranking....
View ArticleThe Economic Freedom Index 2013
The Economic Freedom Index, compiled by the Heritage Foundation, is a measure of the economic freedom given to citizens in each of the 185 countries where it is measured. A total of ten components of...
View ArticleInternet Population and Penetration by Country
An estimated one third of the world population is connected to the internet while the remaining two thirds do not have have access to it yet, according to the website Information Geographies. As shown...
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