Life – a user's manual Part II - Boksidan

Regarding other factors, like how large fraction of the children who attend school, access to clean water and
good toilet facilities, the percentage who suffer from malnutrition, the degree of corruption, the number of
mobile telephone subscribers per 100 inhabitants, GDP 9 per capita, share of exports, the number of cars,
trucks and buses per 1,000 inhabitants, alcohol consumption and political rights, one can’t, however, see any
consistent trend that points out that different colonial masters left a better or worse legacy. In addition to the
former French colonies have worst or second worst value on 10 of 12 factors, and that the German/ Teutonic
areas, with one exception, has the best values.
Domination
occupation
culture 1
Table 2.
Kids in
school 2
(%)
The dominant (occupation) culture in relation to various data, for all fully autonomous countries 14 . Spanish
= pink, Russian=light blue, French = red, British= green, German/ Teutonic = brown, Ottoman = gray,
Portuguese = yellow, Chinese = light green. The figures quoted are averages for all countries in each group
without weighting for differences in population size.
Clean
water 3 (%)
Good
toilets 4 (%)
Starvation
5 (%)
Coruption
6
1=much
Mobiles 7 /
100 inh.
Public
spenditure
on health
care 8 (% of
GDP)
GDP 9 per
inh.
Export 10 (% of
GDP)
Cars&
busses 11 /
1.000
inh.
Alcoho
olcons.
12 /
adult
(liter
alc/year
)
Political
rights
(1=
"total")
The
occupants
language 1
3
= official
language
The occupants
currency
name 13
The occupants
religion 13 =
biggest
Spanish 90 96 79 12 3 99 4 6 630 36 141 7 3 20 of 21 8 of 21 21 of 21
Russian 93 98 87 7 3 106 3 4 750 52 239 11 4 2 of 16 2 of 16 5 of 16
French 81 88 44 20 3 65 3 4 184 34 97 5 5 21 of 31 18 of 31 9 of 31
Brittish 92 94 69 14 4 81 4 8 248 41 204 6 3 49 of 56 31 of 56 16 of 56
German 96 99 96 6 7 128 6 22 658 55 471 11 1
Some connections
Osttomanian 91 97 90 6 3 109 3 7 429 36 215 4 5
Portugese 93 87 56 17 4 78 4 6 027 47 63 6 3 7 of 8 - 5 of 8
Chinese 100 96 45 18 3 62 2 2 263 34 33 4 4
Some connections
No obvious connections
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13.
The indicator shows the percentage of children in primary school age who were enrolled in a school during 2009, according to
the UN website: www.globalis.se.
Percentage of the population in urban areas who in 2008 had access to a source of water with good quality, according to
www.globalis.se.
The total percentage of the population who 2008 had access to well developed sanitary facilities, according to
www.globalis.se.
The proportion of the population that is undernourished, according www.globalis.se (data from 2007).
The indicator shows the level of corruption in the country, estimated by business people, academics and risk analysts. The
corruption scale ranges from 1 (very corrupt) to 10 (completely un corrupt), the indicator include corruption in the public
sector (such as the police, education, health system and the goverments purchase of services from the private sector) and in
politics, according www.globalis.se (data from 2011).
The number of mobile phone subscribers per 100 inhabitants in 2010, according www.globalis.se.
Public expenditure on health care (% of GDP) in 2007, according to the Swedish Foreign Policy Institute
(www.landguiden.se).
= Gross Domestic Product = the total value of all goods and services produced in the country, excluding those used in the
production of other goods or services. In the table, GDP is expressed in purchasing power parity, which is a measure that
neutralize differences in price levels between countries and presented per inhabitant. Data from www.globalis.se and they
refers to the year 2000.
The total value of all goods and services that the country sold to the rest of the world in 2000, as a share of GDP, according to
www.globalis.se.
The average number of motor vehicles (except motorcycles) per 1 000 inhabitants in 2007. Which includes cars, buses and
trucks. The population figure that the calculation is based on is the number of people in the middle of the year. According to
www.gapminder.org.
The average alcohol consumption per adult (i.e. over 15 years) in liters, is unclear, however, whether it is pure alcohol or what.
According to www.gapminder.org (data from 2005).
Data about official language, currency and which religion is the largest is taken from: Gordon Cheers (editor) Geographica -
Atlas and encyclopaedias of world peoples and countries, Könemann publishers, Cologne, Germany, 2000.
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