World Top 10

[jackola]

Top 10 Military Spending in Billions:
335.7 - United States
 46.7 - Japan
 36.0 - United Kingdom
 33.6 - France
 31.1 - China
 27.7 - Germany
 21.6 - Saudi Arabia
 21.1 - Italy
 17.5 - Iran
 13.5 - South Korea

#1 Most Powerful: United States (followed by Germany, France, U.K., Japan, Canada...)
#1 Exporter: United States
#1 Agriculture Exporter: United States
#1 Nuclear Warheads: United States (N.K. and Iran are 9 and 10)
#1 Foreign Aid Donors: United States
#1 GDP (Gross Domestic Product): United States
#1 Nobel Prize Winners: United States with 137 (2nd is Germany with 49)

#1 Competitiveness: Finland (U.S. is #2)
#1 Weapons Exporter: Russia (U.S. is #2 with 2/3 of Russia's)
#1 Feature Film Production: India (U.S. is #2 with less than half of India's production)
#1 Movie Goers: India (U.S. is #2 with about half of India's sales)

#1 Patents Granted: Japan (U.S. is #3)

#1 University Students: Canada (U.S. is #4 behind S. Korea and Australia)

#1 Quality of Life: Norway (U.S. is #6... Canada is #3)

#1 Internet Users: Iceland (U.S. is #7 with 20% less than Iceland)
#1 Personal Computers: San Marino (U.S. is #7, about 47%)

#1 Fresh Water Supply: Iceland (United States is not in the top 10)
#1 Oil Reserves - Saudi Arabia (#2 is Canada, #3 is Iraq, #5 is Iran... U.S. is not in the top 10)
#1 Environmental Treaties: Norway (United States is not in the top 10)

Source: MapsOfWorld.com

That's nice and all that we are on top of the nuclear warheads, but #6 for quality of life and not even on the charts for environmental treaties? Sounds about right.

Based on the above, the best 3 places to live if you're an average citizen (not a corporate executive): Norway, Canada, Iceland.

If you want to be heavily armed and pushing profits for the rich, it's clear that the U.S. is the place to be.

Of course, this is all based on that source.

Comments

[danelover18.livejournal.com]

"How can the U.S. have so many Nobel Prizes with as much killing as we do?"

The point should be noted that they are the PEACE prize, just prizes in the other categories. They don't care how many people you kill so long as you write well.

[50ft-eyesores.livejournal.com]

This was a wonderfully informative post. :)