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Social & Moral Development Index₁
Pos.		Higher is better Points₁
1	France	76.9
2	Spain	73.4
3	Italy	71.1
4	Slovenia	69.6
5	Cyprus	66.9
6	Malta	66.7
7	Israel	65.9
8	Greece	62.9
9	Croatia	62.2
10	Monaco	59.9
	Mediterranean Avg	57.3
	World Avg	53.8
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 #economics #health #human_development #life_expectancy #population

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	76.9	82.36	$38 085	21	63.5m	547 660	116
2	Spain	73.4	82.77	$32 779	27	46.8m	498 800	94
3	Italy	71.1	83.34	$33 573	26	61.0m	294 140	207
4	Slovenia	69.6	80.58	$28 664	25	2.0m	20 140	101
5	Cyprus	66.9	80.33	$29 459	33	1.1m	9 240	122
6	Malta	66.7	80.73	$29 500	33	0.4m	320	1 310
7	Israel	65.9	82.56	$31 215	19	7.7m	21 640	356
8	Greece	62.9	81.07	$24 808	29	11.4m	128 900	89
9	Croatia	62.2	77.50	$20 291	45	4.4m	55 960	78
10	Monaco	59.9				35 444	2	17 722
11	Albania	58.0	77.97	$10 252	75	3.2m	27 400	118
12	Turkey	57.1	75.53	$18 705	71	74.5m	769 630	97
13	Bosnia & Herzegovina	55.9	76.63	$10 091	81	3.7m	51 000	73
14	Montenegro	54.9	76.40	$15 410	48	0.6m	13 450	47
15	Morocco	52.8	74.31	$7 195	123	32.6m	446 300	73
16	Tunisia	51.0	74.98	$10 249	97	10.7m	155 360	69
17	Lebanon	50.1	79.54	$13 312	76	4.3m	10 230	420
18	Egypt	45.5	71.33	$10 064	111	84.0m	995 450	84
19	Libya	44.4	71.76	$14 303	102	6.5m	1 759 540	4
20	Algeria	42.5	75.03	$13 533	83	36.5m	2 381 740	15
21	Palestine	38.9	73.07	$5 256	114	4.3m
22	Syria	34.4	69.65	$2 441	149	21.1m	183 630	115
	Mediterranean Avg	57.3	77.50	$19 009	66.1	21.8m	398 597	55
	World Avg	53.8	71.27	$17 240	94.3	36.0m	620 450	58
q=22.

2. Human Rights and Moral Development

#gender #homosexuality #human_development #human_rights #mass_media #misogyny #morals #politics #women

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	76.9	0.10	21	2160	78
2	Spain	73.4	0.08	23	2050	79
3	Italy	71.1	0.08	22	2611	40
4	Slovenia	69.6	0.05	23	2049	45
5	Cyprus	66.9	0.12	20	1383	40
6	Malta	66.7	0.22	18	2330	63
7	Israel	65.9	0.10	12	3297	48
8	Greece	62.9	0.12	19	2846	39
9	Croatia	62.2	0.14	22	2661	45
10	Monaco	59.9		16		40
11	Albania	58.0	0.27	20	3088	40
12	Turkey	57.1	0.33	17	4656	25
13	Bosnia & Herzegovina	55.9	0.16	21	2686	35
14	Montenegro	54.9	0.16	21	3297	35
15	Morocco	52.8	0.49	17	3904	-42
16	Tunisia	51.0	0.29	18	3993	-39
17	Lebanon	50.1	0.38	12	3015	-24
18	Egypt	45.5	0.57	16	4866	-27
19	Libya	44.4	0.17	15	3786	-42
20	Algeria	42.5	0.43	18	3654	-37
21	Palestine	38.9			4309
22	Syria	34.4	0.55	14	7853	-84
	Mediterranean Avg	57.3	0.24	18.3	3357	17.0
	World Avg	53.8	0.36	15.1	3249	12.6
q=22.

3. Religion and Beliefs

#belief #buddhism #christianity #folk_religion #god #hinduism #human_development #islam #judaism #no_religion #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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References: (What's this?)

Crabtree, Vexen
(2019) "What is the Best Country in the World? An Index of Morality, Conscience and Good Life" (2019). Accessed 2019 Jan 14.

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 (2019)^^^
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) .^

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