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Social & Moral Development Index₁
Pos.		Higher is better Points₁
1	France	73.5
2	Spain	71.7
3	Israel	69.3
4	Italy	68.1
5	Slovenia	67.8
6	Malta	66.3
7	Cyprus	63.3
8	Greece	60.7
9	Monaco	59.9
10	Croatia	59.3
	Mediterranean Avg	56.6
	World Avg	53.7
q=22.

These countries all have coastlines on the Mediterranean, and are thus generally considered to be attractive places for holidays, retirements, and thrill-seeking by the rest of Europe, due to the warmer Mediterranean weather.

There are 22 locations that fall within this category. By adding up all the known populations that fall within these locations, and summing their physical land areas, we can calculate population densities. Some islands and territories can end up being counted twice depending on how they are classified and divided up politically, but, mostly such errors involve only small populations. So, some data on this collection of countries in total:

Compare to other regions of the world

Total Population: 480.3m
Total Land Area: 8 370 532km²
Independent States: 21
Other Territories: 1

1. Social and Moral Development Index and Basic Demographics

#demographics #human_development

The Social and Moral Development Index concentrates on moral issues and human rights, violence, public health, equality, tolerance, freedom and effectiveness in climate change mitigation and environmentalism, and on some technological issues. A country scores higher for achieving well in those areas, and for sustaining that achievement in the long term. Those countries towards the top of this index can truly said to be setting good examples and leading humankind onwards into a bright, humane, and free future. See: What is the Best Country in the World? An Index of Morality, Conscience and Good Life.

Pos.		Social & Moral Higher is better Points₁	Life Expectancy (2015) Higher is better Years₂	Gross National Income (2011) Higher is better PPP $₂	UN HDI (2016) Lower is better Rank₃	Population (2012)₄	Land Area (2011) km²₅	People Per km² Lower is better
1	France	73.5	82.36	$38 085	21	63.5m	547 660	116
2	Spain	71.7	82.77	$32 779	27	46.8m	498 800	94
3	Israel	69.3	82.56	$31 215	19	7.7m	21 640	356
4	Italy	68.1	83.34	$33 573	26	61.0m	294 140	207
5	Slovenia	67.8	80.58	$28 664	25	2.0m	20 140	101
6	Malta	66.3	80.73	$29 500	33	0.4m	320	1 310
7	Cyprus	63.3	80.33	$29 459	33	1.1m	9 240	122
8	Greece	60.7	81.07	$24 808	29	11.4m	128 900	89
9	Monaco	59.9				35 444	2	17 722
10	Croatia	59.3	77.50	$20 291	45	4.4m	55 960	78
11	Albania	57.4	77.97	$10 252	75	3.2m	27 400	118
12	Bosnia & Herzegovina	54.2	76.63	$10 091	81	3.7m	51 000	73
13	Turkey	54.1	75.53	$18 705	71	74.5m	769 630	97
14	Montenegro	53.4	76.40	$15 410	48	0.6m	13 450	47
15	Libya	51.3	71.76	$14 303	102	6.5m	1 759 540	4
16	Tunisia	49.5	74.98	$10 249	97	10.7m	155 360	69
17	Morocco	49.2	74.31	$7 195	123	32.6m	446 300	73
18	Lebanon	49.2	79.54	$13 312	76	4.3m	10 230	420
19	Egypt	45.2	71.33	$10 064	111	84.0m	995 450	84
20	Algeria	44.7	75.03	$13 533	83	36.5m	2 381 740	15
21	Syria	39.1	69.65	$2 441	149	21.1m	183 630	115
22	Palestine	38.9	73.07	$5 256	114	4.3m
	Mediterranean Avg	56.6	77.50	$19 009	66.1	21.8m	398 597	55
	World Avg	53.7	71.27	$17 240	94.3	36.0m	620 450	58
q=22.

2. Human Rights and Moral Development

#human_development #human_rights #morals

Pos.		Social & Moral Higher is better Points₁	Gender Inequality (2015) Lower is better₆	Nominal Commitment to HR (2009) Higher is better Treaties₇	Press Freedom (2013) Lower is better₈	LGBT Equality (2017) Higher is better Score₉
1	France	73.5	0.10	21	2160	78
2	Spain	71.7	0.08	23	2050	79
3	Israel	69.3	0.10	12	3297	48
4	Italy	68.1	0.08	22	2611	40
5	Slovenia	67.8	0.05	23	2049	45
6	Malta	66.3	0.22	18	2330	63
7	Cyprus	63.3	0.12	20	1383	40
8	Greece	60.7	0.12	19	2846	39
9	Monaco	59.9		16		40
10	Croatia	59.3	0.14	22	2661	45
11	Albania	57.4	0.27	20	3088	40
12	Bosnia & Herzegovina	54.2	0.16	21	2686	35
13	Turkey	54.1	0.33	17	4656	25
14	Montenegro	53.4	0.16	21	3297	35
15	Libya	51.3	0.17	15	3786	-42
16	Tunisia	49.5	0.29	18	3993	-39
17	Morocco	49.2	0.49	17	3904	-42
18	Lebanon	49.2	0.38	12	3015	-24
19	Egypt	45.2	0.57	16	4866	-27
20	Algeria	44.7	0.43	18	3654	-37
21	Syria	39.1	0.55	14	7853	-84
22	Palestine	38.9			4309
	Mediterranean Avg	56.6	0.24	18.3	3357	17.0
	World Avg	53.7	0.36	15.1	3249	12.6
q=22.

3. Religion and Beliefs

#human_development #religion

Pos.		Religiosity (2009) Lower is better %₁₀	Disbelief In God (2007) Higher is better₁₁	Jews (2010) %₁₂	Christians (2010) %₁₂	Muslims (2010) %₁₂	Hindus (2010) %₁₂	Buddhists (2010) %₁₂	Folk Religion (2010) %₁₂	Unaffiliated (2010) %₁₂
1	Albania	39	8	0.1	18.0	80.3	0.1	0.1	0.1	1.4
2	Algeria	95	0	0.1	0.2	97.9	0.1	0.1	0.1	1.8
3	Bosnia & Herzegovina	77		0.1	52.3	45.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	2.5
4	Croatia	70	7	0.1	93.4	1.4	0.1	0.1	0.1	5.1
5	Cyprus	75		0.1	73.2	25.3	0.1	0.2	0.1	1.2
6	Egypt	97	0	0.1	5.1	94.9	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
7	France	30	44	0.5	63.0	7.5	0.1	0.5	0.3	28.0
8	Greece	71	16	0.1	88.1	5.3	0.1	0.1	0.1	6.1
9	Israel	51	15	75.6	2.0	18.6	0.1	0.3	0.2	3.1
10	Italy	72	6	0.1	83.3	3.7	0.1	0.2	0.1	12.4
11	Lebanon	87	3	0.1	38.3	61.3	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.3
12	Libya		0	0.1	2.7	96.6	0.1	0.3	0.1	0.2
13	Malta	86		0.1	97.0	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	2.5
14	Monaco			1.7	86.0	0.4	0.1	0.1	0.1	11.7
15	Montenegro	71		0.1	78.1	18.7	0.1	0.1	0.1	3.2
16	Morocco	97	0	0.1	0.1	99.0	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
17	Slovenia	47	35	0.1	78.4	3.6	0.1	0.1	0.1	18.0
18	Spain	49	15	0.1	78.6	2.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	19.0
19	Syria	89	0	0.1	5.2	92.8	0.1	0.1	0.1	2.0
20	Tunisia	93	0	0.1	0.2	99.0	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2
21	Turkey	82		0.1	0.4	98.0	0.1	0.1	0.1	1.2
22	Palestine	93		0.1	2.4	97.6	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
	Mediterranean Avg	73.6	9.9	3.6	43.0	47.7	0.1	0.2	0.1	5.5
	World Avg	75.1	9.9	0.5	60.6	22.4	2.0	3.5	2.7	7.9
q=22.

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Crabtree, Vexen
(2017) "What is the Best Country in the World? An Index of Morality, Conscience and Good Life" (2017). Accessed 2018 Jun 10.

Gallup
(2009) Religiosity. gallup.com/poll/142727/.... The survey question was "Is religion an important part of your daily life?" and results are charted for those who said "yes". 1000 adults were polled in each of 114 countries.

Lynn, Harvey & Nyborg
(2009) Average intelligence predicts atheism rates across 137 nations. Richard Lynn, John Harvey and Helmuth Nyborg. Published in Intelligence (2009 Jan/Feb) vol. 37 issue 1 pages 11-15. Online at www.sciencedirect.com, accessed 2009 Sep 15.

Pew Forum. Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
(2012) The Global Religious Landscape: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Major Religious Groups as of 2010. Published 2012 Dec 18, accessed online 2013 May 01.

United Nations
(2013) Human Development Report. Published by the UN Development Programme. This edition had the theme of The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World. Available on hdr.undp.org/... UN Development Program: About the Human Development Index.
(2017) Human Development Report. Published by the UN Development Programme. Data for 2015. Available on hdr.undp.org/.

Footnotes

"What is the Best Country in the World? An Index of Morality, Conscience and Good Life" by Vexen Crabtree (2017)^^^
UN (2017). Table 1. Higher is better.^
UN (2017). Table 1. Lower is better.^
UN (2013). Table 14.^
World Bank data on data.worldbank.org accessed 2013 Nov 04.^
UN (2017). Table 5. Lower is better.^
Max possible=24. Total amount of treaties ratified. Nominal Commitment to Human Rights report published by UCL School of Public Policy, London, UK, at ucl.ac.uk/spp/research/research-projects/nchr accessed 2011 Apr 30.^
Reporters Without Borders Report "2013 World Press Freedom Index: Dashed hopes after spring" at fr.rsf.org/.../classement_2013_gb-bd.pdf accessed 2013 Feb.^
Sources:
- International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association annual report for 2017, on ilga.org accessed 2017 Sep 24.
- PF: Pew Forum on pewforum.org/Gay-Marriage-and-Homosexuality/ (page updated 2017 Aug 08). (Source of the quotes on religious opposition to LGBT).
- Wikipedia on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_at_the_United_Nations accessed 2013 Apr 18. (Source of data on who signed the UN 2008 document and its opposing document).
- Wikipedia on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights accessed 2013 Apr 18 (source of the civil union & legality of homosexuality legality by country).
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Gallup (2009) .^
Zuckerman, P. (2007). Atheism: contemporary numbers and patterns. In M.Martin (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Atheism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. In "Average intelligence predicts atheism rates across 137 nations" by Lynn et al. (2009)₁₃.^
Pew Forum (2011) - data for 2010.₁₄^
Lynn, Harvey & Nyborg (2009) .^
Pew (2012) .^

Which are the Best Mediterranean Countries?

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2. Human Rights and Moral Development

3. Religion and Beliefs