General

• United Nations
  United Nations
  The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
  
  : Human Development Index, ranked 74 out of 177 countries
• Satisfaction with Life Index
  Satisfaction with Life Index
  The Satisfaction with Life Index was created by Adrian G. White, an Analytic Social Psychologist at the University of Leicester, using data from a metastudy. It is an attempt to show life satisfaction in different nations....
  
  , ranked 76 out of 178 countries

Economics

• Nominal GDP growth rate: ranked 123 of 215 (4.4% growth rate)
• Nominal GDP: 36 of 181 ($173b USD)
• A.T. Kearney
  A.T. Kearney
  A.T. Kearney is a global management consulting firm, focusing on strategic and operational CEO-agenda concerns. It was founded in 1926, and its head office is in Chicago, Illinois...
  
  /Foreign Policy Magazine
  Foreign Policy
  Foreign Policy is a bimonthly American magazine founded in 1970 by Samuel P. Huntington and Warren Demian Manshel.Originally, the magazine was a quarterly...
  
  : Globalization Index 2005, ranked 46 out of 62 countries
• IMD International: World Competitiveness Scoreboard 2006, ranked x out of 60 economies (countries and regions)
• The Wall Street Journal
  The Wall Street Journal
  The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
  
  : 2006 Index of Economic Freedom
  Index of Economic Freedom
  The Index of Economic Freedom is a series of 10 economic measurements created by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal. Its stated objective is to measure the degree of economic freedom in the world's nations....
  
  , ranked 71 out of 155 countries
• The Economist
  The Economist
  The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in offices in the City of Westminster, London, England. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843...
  
  : Worldwide Quality-of-life Index, 2005, ranked 42 out of 111 countries
• World Economic Forum
  World Economic Forum
  The World Economic Forum is a Swiss non-profit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva, best known for its annual meeting in Davos, a mountain resort in Graubünden, in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland....
  
  : Global Competitiveness Report
  Global Competitiveness Report
  The Global Competitiveness Report is a yearly report published by the World Economic Forum. The first report was released in 1979. The 2011–2012 report covers 142 major and emerging economies....
  
   2006-2007 Growth Competitiveness Index Ranking, ranked 35 out of 125 countries

Education

• OECD: Programme for International Student Assessment
  Programme for International Student Assessment
  The Programme for International Student Assessment is a worldwide evaluation in OECD member countries of 15-year-old school pupils' scholastic performance, performed first in 2000 and repeated every three years...
  
   (2003 PISA http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2005/2005003.pdf), Ranked x of 38 in mathematics, x of 38 in science, x of 38 in reading, and x of 38 in problem solving.

Politics

• Transparency International
  Transparency International
  Transparency International is a non-governmental organization that monitors and publicizes corporate and political corruption in international development. It publishes an annual Corruption Perceptions Index, a comparative listing of corruption worldwide...
  
  : Corruption Perceptions Index
  Corruption Perceptions Index
  Since 1995, Transparency International publishes the Corruption Perceptions Index annually ranking countries "by their perceived levels of corruption, as determined by expert assessments and opinion surveys." The CPI generally defines corruption as "the misuse of public power for private...
  
  , ranked 63 out of 163 countries
• Yale University Center for Environmental Law and Policy
  Yale University
  Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
  
   and Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network
  Columbia University
  Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
  
  : Environmental Sustainability Index 2005, ranked 73 out of 146 countries.
• Reporters without borders
  Reporters Without Borders
  Reporters Without Borders is a France-based international non-governmental organization that advocates freedom of the press. It was founded in 1985, by Robert Ménard, Rony Brauman and the journalist Jean-Claude Guillebaud. Jean-François Julliard has served as Secretary General since 2008...
  
  : Worldwide press freedom index, ranked 122 out of 167 countries

Social

• Save the Children
  Save the Children
  Save the Children is an internationally active non-governmental organization that enforces children's rights, provides relief and helps support children in developing countries...
  
  : State of the World's Mothers report
  Save the Children State of the World's Mothers report
  The Save the Children State of the World's Mothers report is an annual report by the International Save the Children Alliance, which compiles statistics on the health of mothers and children and uses them to produce rankings of nations within three groupings corresponding to varying levels of...
  
   2006, ranked x out of 110 countries
• World Giving Index
  World Giving Index
  The World Giving Index was compiled by the Charities Aid Foundation, using data gathered by Gallup, and ranks 153 countries in the World according to how charitable their populations are. The Charities Aid Foundation claims that WGI is the largest study ever carried out into charitable behaviour...
  
   (2010): 25 out of 153 countries

Crime

• Number of intentional homicides committed with a firearm that were recorded in criminal (police) statistics (7th U.N. Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems, 1998 - 2000): ranked 3rd for the year 2000 among the 92 countries that responded to the survey (behind #1 South Africa
  South Africa
  The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
  
   and #2 Colombia
  Colombia
  Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
  
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