What are the differences between your country and other countries? - those that you know, have visited, would like to go to...
There are lots of different ways to make comparisons:
Guide to Country Comparisons - The World Factbook
There are lots of statistics to look at to make comparisons:
The Diversity of Countries and Economies across the World | OpenStax Macroeconomics 2e
How does does your country compare?
This study was carried out by UNESCO in 2007:
An overview of child well-being in rich countriesA comprehensive assessment of the lives and well-being of children and adolescents in the economically advanced nations
The true measure of a nation’s standing is how well it attends to its children – their health and safety, their material security, their education and socialization, and their sense of being loved, valued, and included in the families and societies into which they are born.
Click on this link to see a table which compares these different criteria - and the UK and US come out significantly badly:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/13_02_07_nn_unicef.pdf
www.unicef.org/media/files/ChildPovertyReport.pdf
There are plenty of other statistics about how well we look after our children.
For example, how many resources they have at school, with Scandinavian and German/Austrian/Swiss kids having more than enough - see page 36 of this more recent report from the OECD:
www.oecd.org/els/family/43570328.pdf
Jay Doubleyou: explaining how your country's education system works
And then there is the measurement of 'happiness':
Happy Planet Index - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This idea originally came from Bhutan:
Gross national happiness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
www.unicef.org/media/files/ChildPovertyReport.pdf
There are plenty of other statistics about how well we look after our children.
For example, how many resources they have at school, with Scandinavian and German/Austrian/Swiss kids having more than enough - see page 36 of this more recent report from the OECD:
www.oecd.org/els/family/43570328.pdf
Jay Doubleyou: explaining how your country's education system works
And then there is the measurement of 'happiness':
Happy Planet Index - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This idea originally came from Bhutan:
Gross national happiness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There are many other such indices:
The 2014 Legatum Prosperity Index - Home
The World's Happiest (And Saddest) Countries, 2013
And:
Happy Planet Index - YouTube
Happy Planet Index
The data | Happy Planet Index
Here's a good question for discussion:
The World's Happiest (And Saddest) Countries, 2013
And:
Happy Planet Index - YouTube
Happy Planet Index
The data | Happy Planet Index
Here's a good question for discussion:
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