In Today's Propaganda...

[bjarvis]

My dear Gov't of Canada sent me an e-mail earlier today spouting off that Canada is now #4 in the UN's Human Development Index. The top ten best countries in to live are:
1 Iceland
2 Norway
3 Australia
4 Canada
5 Ireland
6 Sweden
7 Switzerland
8 Japan
9 Netherlands
10 France

The US is #12.

The bottom ten are:
168 Congo (Democratic Republic of the)
169 Ethiopia
170 Chad
171 Central African Republic
172 Mozambique
173 Mali
174 Niger
175 Guinea-Bissau
176 Burkina Faso
177 Sierra Leone

Comments

[brunorepublic.livejournal.com]

I'm quite surprised that Afghanistan and the DPRK aren't in the bottom ten...

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

Surprisingly, the US rated that high.

15 missing nations

[greyguy-sf.livejournal.com]

But there are 192 members of the United Nations. See http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2006/org1469.doc.htm What is the status of the other 15?

[manley1.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised that more Middle Eastern countries aren't in the bottom, until I thought about how much money they have to elevate at least some of their population. I guess you can buy your way out of gross human rights abuses?

I'm also surprised that Sudan isn't there, but it also has some money thanks to oil and China. Oy.

Hmmmm

[brokebackvol.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised Zimbabwe is not at the bottom - their inflation is like over 1000%