Would be helpful to know what criteria they use to develop the index. Some of these aren’t entirely intuitive.
Luxembourg the 11th? Or Singapore? I can only clearly see 10.
somewhow imagined Uruguay would be at least in par with Chile
So that’s the why for the out of Africa theory…..
I refuse to believe that Ireland is more developed than UK or France.
I can’t see how Turkey, a country that has a GDP PPP so much higher than China’s, be below it
Mexico is also almost a developed country
I would have thought Papua new guinea would be dark red. I have a hard time believing they are just as developed as a country like Nigeria
I really hate these bullshit indexes. They’re based on absolutely nothing but the author’s arbitrary feelings and desires.
Ranking China 31st for “Social Capital” and Japan 141st? That’s deranged. China is literally engaging in a modern Genocide to eliminate off one of their minority groups. The make extensive use of re-education and forced labor camps. The only way it makes any sense is if you highly value the quantification of a social credit score in China, which again is dystopian derangement.
Even ignoring the China comparison, it’s utterly insane to rank Japan next to Somalia on that metric, and below other “institutionally trustworthy” civil governments like Zimbabwe or Iran.
Ranking Taiwan 4th on Safety and Security is also a joke when they’re under imminent threat of invasion.
Germany AT IT AGAIN, BABY!
But of course it’s mostly Germany and its buddies. I curse a lot about my country, but honestly, we’re doing not so bad.
Greenland is highly developed? This would be of great surprise to anyone familiar with Greenland.
Pretty surprised to see Laos in cream, not gonna lie. I would have expected it to be the same as Myanmar & Cambodia.
Only thing keeping gulf countries down is natural environment 😔
Imagine some alien seeing this and thinking about a huge very developed landmass in the north.
So the UK has more personal freedom than the US despite the UK arresting thousands of people a year for social media posts with words they don’t like? Yeah methodology is bullshit.
Clearly, Greenland got the same score as Denmark? And Ireland is higher than UK?
I think it’s a bit misleading to include the outlying areas of some of these nations, like Greenland and Norway. The way this makes it look is that living in Svalbard is some near-utopia, instead of one of the harshest places to live on the planet.
So India is more developed than Egypt?
it’s 2025. Has humanity still not figured out a way to standardize the use of colours in charts?
It’s always the same maps…
An they have broken their mitochondrial lineage
The guys behind this are really awesome scientists.
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Greenland is always a problem on maps like this.
Source: [Legatum Prosperity Index ](https://index.prosperity.com/rankings)
Tools: [Mapchart ](https://www.mapchart.net/)
The index includes 12 pillars
1. Safety & Security
2. Health
3. Education
4. Living Conditions
5. Economic Quality
6. Natural Environment
7. Personal Freedom
8. Governance
9. Social Capital
10. Infrastructure & Market
11. Enterprise Condition
12. Investment Environment
Would be helpful to know what criteria they use to develop the index. Some of these aren’t entirely intuitive.
Luxembourg the 11th? Or Singapore? I can only clearly see 10.
somewhow imagined Uruguay would be at least in par with Chile
So that’s the why for the out of Africa theory…..
I refuse to believe that Ireland is more developed than UK or France.
I can’t see how Turkey, a country that has a GDP PPP so much higher than China’s, be below it
Mexico is also almost a developed country
I would have thought Papua new guinea would be dark red. I have a hard time believing they are just as developed as a country like Nigeria
I really hate these bullshit indexes. They’re based on absolutely nothing but the author’s arbitrary feelings and desires.
Ranking China 31st for “Social Capital” and Japan 141st? That’s deranged. China is literally engaging in a modern Genocide to eliminate off one of their minority groups. The make extensive use of re-education and forced labor camps. The only way it makes any sense is if you highly value the quantification of a social credit score in China, which again is dystopian derangement.
Even ignoring the China comparison, it’s utterly insane to rank Japan next to Somalia on that metric, and below other “institutionally trustworthy” civil governments like Zimbabwe or Iran.
Ranking Taiwan 4th on Safety and Security is also a joke when they’re under imminent threat of invasion.
Germany AT IT AGAIN, BABY!
But of course it’s mostly Germany and its buddies. I curse a lot about my country, but honestly, we’re doing not so bad.
Greenland is highly developed? This would be of great surprise to anyone familiar with Greenland.
Pretty surprised to see Laos in cream, not gonna lie. I would have expected it to be the same as Myanmar & Cambodia.
Only thing keeping gulf countries down is natural environment 😔
Imagine some alien seeing this and thinking about a huge very developed landmass in the north.
So the UK has more personal freedom than the US despite the UK arresting thousands of people a year for social media posts with words they don’t like? Yeah methodology is bullshit.
Clearly, Greenland got the same score as Denmark? And Ireland is higher than UK?
I think it’s a bit misleading to include the outlying areas of some of these nations, like Greenland and Norway. The way this makes it look is that living in Svalbard is some near-utopia, instead of one of the harshest places to live on the planet.
So India is more developed than Egypt?
it’s 2025. Has humanity still not figured out a way to standardize the use of colours in charts?
It’s always the same maps…
An they have broken their mitochondrial lineage
The guys behind this are really awesome scientists.
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