Life – a user's manual Part II - Boksidan

Differences between countries could also be due to unfair distribution of resources, but that does not seem to
be the case (table 4 +5), except that in this context favored countries have less national debt per capita. The
reason is to some extent that some countries, for various reasons, do not use their resources as well as that
some of the very developed countries, such as Italy, Japan and Germany (now) are short on natural
resources.
Table 4.
Amount of resources
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Natural Resources in relation to the economic and socio-economic data. Plenty of multiple resources or
very much of a very easilly traded resource such as oil = green, medium, i.e. a few resources in such
quantities that it is possible to make money on it = yellow, low amount of all resources = red.
Cultivatable
land 16 (%)
Forrest 17
(%)
Starvation
(%)
Average
sugar 18
consumpt
(g
sugar/pers.
& day
Aver-age
BMI 19 for
men
Clean
water (%)
Public
spenditure
on health
care (% of
GDP)
Cars&
busses/ 1
000 inh.
GDP per
inh.
National
dept 20 / inh.
A lot of oil or several other resources 10 32 14 72 25 92 3 177 6 357 832 6
At least one prifitalbe resource 18 27 13 88 25 95 4 230 9 677 1 366 3
Bad conditions in this aspect 20 33 13 94 25 96 4 265 11 050 2 915 13
Directinv.
21 /
GDP (%)
15.
Data regarding natural resources comes from The Institute for Forregin Politics (Utrikespolitiska Institutet)
www.landguiden.se (data from 2012). I have ranked countries primarily on the basis of the institutes assessment
but I have to some extent also considered population.
16. Arable land including occasionally cultivated areas, land used for private or market-based pasture and land that
temporarily was unused in 2009, according to www.globalis.se.
17.
Proportion of every country's total land area that was covered by forests in 2010, according to www.globalis.se.
18.
The average consumption of sugar and sweeteners (in grams per person per day) during 2004, according to
www.gapminder.org.
19.
Average BMI (Body Mass Index, which is calculated using the formula weight/posture 2 ) for the male population,
according www.gapminder.org (data from 2008).
20.
Public debt/capita (in U.S. $) including the debt to other countries, debt to international institutions such as World
Bank and IMF, and debts to private banks, the data comes from www.globalis.se and concerns the year 2010. Debts
have in this table been divided with the population according to the same source.
21.
Foreign direct investment means overseas investments in holdings in the country's business, with the intention to
exercise influence and control over the company, according to www.globalis.se (data from 2010).
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