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Social & Moral Development Index₁
Pos.		Higher is better Points₁
1	France	74.0
2	Spain	72.0
3	Israel	70.3
4	Slovenia	70.1
5	Italy	68.7
6	Malta	66.3
7	Cyprus	64.7
8	Croatia	61.5
9	Greece	60.6
10	Albania	60.0
	Mediterranean Avg	57.8
	World Avg	55.3
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	74.0	82.36	$38 085	21	63.5m	547 660	116
2	Spain	72.0	82.77	$32 779	27	46.8m	498 800	94
3	Israel	70.3	82.56	$31 215	19	7.7m	21 640	356
4	Slovenia	70.1	80.58	$28 664	25	2.0m	20 140	101
5	Italy	68.7	83.34	$33 573	26	61.0m	294 140	207
6	Malta	66.3	80.73	$29 500	33	0.4m	320	1 310
7	Cyprus	64.7	80.33	$29 459	33	1.1m	9 240	122
8	Croatia	61.5	77.50	$20 291	45	4.4m	55 960	78
9	Greece	60.6	81.07	$24 808	29	11.4m	128 900	89
10	Albania	60.0	77.97	$10 252	75	3.2m	27 400	118
11	Monaco	59.9				35 444	2	17 722
12	Bosnia & Herzegovina	56.7	76.63	$10 091	81	3.7m	51 000	73
13	Montenegro	56.0	76.40	$15 410	48	0.6m	13 450	47
14	Turkey	55.5	75.53	$18 705	71	74.5m	769 630	97
15	Libya	53.2	71.76	$14 303	102	6.5m	1 759 540	4
16	Morocco	50.9	74.31	$7 195	123	32.6m	446 300	73
17	Tunisia	50.3	74.98	$10 249	97	10.7m	155 360	69
18	Lebanon	50.2	79.54	$13 312	76	4.3m	10 230	420
19	Algeria	46.4	75.03	$13 533	83	36.5m	2 381 740	15
20	Egypt	46.2	71.33	$10 064	111	84.0m	995 450	84
21	Syria	40.4	69.65	$2 441	149	21.1m	183 630	115
22	Palestine	38.9	73.07	$5 256	114	4.3m
	Mediterranean Avg	57.8	77.50	$19 009	66.1	21.8m	398 597	55
	World Avg	55.3	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	74.0	0.10	21	2160	78
2	Spain	72.0	0.08	23	2050	79
3	Israel	70.3	0.10	12	3297	48
4	Slovenia	70.1	0.05	23	2049	45
5	Italy	68.7	0.08	22	2611	40
6	Malta	66.3	0.22	18	2330	63
7	Cyprus	64.7	0.12	20	1383	40
8	Croatia	61.5	0.14	22	2661	45
9	Greece	60.6	0.12	19	2846	39
10	Albania	60.0	0.27	20	3088	40
11	Monaco	59.9		16		40
12	Bosnia & Herzegovina	56.7	0.16	21	2686	35
13	Montenegro	56.0	0.16	21	3297	35
14	Turkey	55.5	0.33	17	4656	25
15	Libya	53.2	0.17	15	3786	-42
16	Morocco	50.9	0.49	17	3904	-42
17	Tunisia	50.3	0.29	18	3993	-39
18	Lebanon	50.2	0.38	12	3015	-24
19	Algeria	46.4	0.43	18	3654	-37
20	Egypt	46.2	0.57	16	4866	-27
21	Syria	40.4	0.55	14	7853	-84
22	Palestine	38.9			4309
	Mediterranean Avg	57.8	0.24	18.3	3357	17.0
	World Avg	55.3	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
(2017) "What is the Best Country in the World? An Index of Morality, Conscience and Good Life" (2017). Accessed 2018 Aug 16.

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) .^

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