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Social and Moral Index The Best Countries
	Country	Score
1	Monaco	77.3
2	Spain	74.2
3	France	73.7
4	Slovenia	72.6
5	Italy	71.6
6	Israel	70.1
7	Malta	68.5
8	Cyprus	67.2
9	Albania	65.0
10	Croatia	64.4
World Average		57.5
Mediterranean Average		62.5
Data Source

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: 480.33 million
Total Land Area: 8 370 532 km²
Independent States: 21
Other Territories: 1

1. Social and Moral Development Index and Basic Demographics

The Social and Moral Development Index is a formulaic aggregation of many factors. It concentrates on moral issues and human rights, violence, equality, tolerance, freedom and effectiveness in climate change mitigation and environmentalism. 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" by Vexen Crabtree (2017).


	Country	Social & Moral Development Index₁Higher is better	Life Expectancy (2015) Higher is better₂	Gross National Income Per-Capita (2011) Higher is better₂	UN HDI (2016) Lower is better₃	Population	Land Areakm²	People Per km²Higher is worse
1	Monaco	77.3				35 444	2	17722
2	Spain	74.2	82.77	$32 779	27	46 771 596	498 800	94
3	France	73.7	82.36	$38 085	21	63 457 777	547 660	116
4	Slovenia	72.6	80.58	$28 664	25	2 040 057	20 140	101
5	Italy	71.6	83.34	$33 573	26	60 964 145	294 140	207
6	Israel	70.1	82.56	$31 215	19	7 694 670	21 640	356
7	Malta	68.5	80.73	$29 500	33	419 212	320	1310
8	Cyprus	67.2	80.33	$29 459	33	1 129 166	9 240	122
9	Albania	65.0	77.97	$10 252	75	3 227 373	27 400	118
10	Croatia	64.4	77.50	$20 291	45	4 387 376	55 960	78
11	Greece	63.2	81.07	$24 808	29	11 418 878	128 900	89
12	Montenegro	62.8	76.40	$15 410	48	632 796	13 450	47
13	Bosnia & Herzegovina	61.0	76.63	$10 091	81	3 744 235	51 000	73
14	Turkey	57.7	75.53	$18 705	71	74 508 771	769 630	97
15	Tunisia	57.0	74.98	$10 249	97	10 704 948	155 360	69
16	Lebanon	56.9	79.54	$13 312	76	4 291 719	10 230	420
17	Libya	55.7	71.76	$14 303	102	6 469 497	1 759 540	4
18	Morocco	54.1	74.31	$7 195	123	32 598 536	446 300	73
19	Algeria	51.7	75.03	$13 533	83	36 485 828	2 381 740	15
20	Egypt	50.7	71.33	$10 064	111	83 958 369	995 450	84
21	Palestine	50.0	73.07	$5 256	114	4 270 791
22	Syria	49.1	69.65	$2 441	149	21 117 690	183 630	115
World Average		57.5	71.27	$17 240	94.3	25.74m	536 254	48
Mediterranean Average		62.5	77.50	$19 009	66.1	21.83m	398 597	55
Data Source

2. Human Rights and Moral Development


	Country	Social & Moral Development Index₁Higher is better	Gender Inequality (2015)₄Lower is better	Nominal Commitment to HR (2009)₅Higher is better	Press Freedom (2013)₆Lower is better	LGBT Equality₇Higher is better
1	Monaco	77.3		16		110
2	Spain	74.2	0.08	23	2050	245
3	France	73.7	0.10	21	2160	195
4	Slovenia	72.6	0.05	23	2049	70
5	Italy	71.6	0.08	22	2611	115
6	Israel	70.1	0.10	12	3297	40
7	Malta	68.5	0.22	18	2330	25
8	Cyprus	67.2	0.12	20	1383	25
9	Albania	65.0	0.27	20	3088	30
10	Croatia	64.4	0.14	22	2661	90
11	Greece	63.2	0.12	19	2846	45
12	Montenegro	62.8	0.16	21	3297	30
13	Bosnia & Herzegovina	61.0	0.16	21	2686	25
14	Turkey	57.7	0.33	17	4656	100
15	Tunisia	57.0	0.29	18	3993	-50
16	Lebanon	56.9	0.38	12	3015	-30
17	Libya	55.7	0.17	15	3786	-70
18	Morocco	54.1	0.49	17	3904	-50
19	Algeria	51.7	0.43	18	3654	-40
20	Egypt	50.7	0.57	16	4866	-20
21	Palestine	50.0			4309
22	Syria	49.1	0.55	14	7853	-50
World Average		57.5	0.36	15.1	3249	-7
Mediterranean Average		62.5	0.24	18.3	3357	40

3. Religion and Beliefs

#buddhism #christianity #hinduism #islam #judaism

		Disbelief in God (2004)₈	Religiosity (2009)₉	Jews (2010)₁₀	Christians (2010)₁₀	Muslims (2010)₁₀	Hindus (2010)₁₀	Buddhists (2010)₁₀	Folk Religion (2010)₁₀	Unaffiliated (2010)₁₀
	Albania	8%	39%	0.1%	18.0%	80.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	1.4%
	Algeria	0%	95%	0.1%	0.2%	97.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	1.8%
	Bosnia & Herzegovina		77%	0.1%	52.3%	45.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	2.5%
	Croatia	7%	70%	0.1%	93.4%	1.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	5.1%
	Cyprus		75%	0.1%	73.2%	25.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	1.2%
	Egypt	0%	97%	0.1%	5.1%	94.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
	France	44%	30%	0.5%	63.0%	7.5%	0.1%	0.5%	0.3%	28.0%
	Greece	16%	71%	0.1%	88.1%	5.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	6.1%
	Israel	15%	51%	75.6%	2.0%	18.6%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%	3.1%
	Italy	6%	72%	0.1%	83.3%	3.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	12.4%
	Lebanon	3%	87%	0.1%	38.3%	61.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%
	Libya	0%		0.1%	2.7%	96.6%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%
	Malta		86%	0.1%	97.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	2.5%
	Monaco			1.7%	86.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	11.7%
	Montenegro		71%	0.1%	78.1%	18.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	3.2%
	Morocco	0%	97%	0.1%	0.1%	99.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
	Palestine		93%	0.1%	2.4%	97.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
	Slovenia	35%	47%	0.1%	78.4%	3.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	18.0%
	Spain	15%	49%	0.1%	78.6%	2.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	19.0%
	Syria	0%	89%	0.1%	5.2%	92.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	2.0%
	Tunisia	0%	93%	0.1%	0.2%	99.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
	Turkey		82%	0.1%	0.4%	98.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	1.2%
	World Averages	9.9%	75.1%	0.5%	60.6%	22.4%	2.0%	3.5%	2.7%	7.9%
	Mediterranean Averages	9.9%	73.6%	3.6%	43.0%	47.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	5.5%
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Parent page: Compare International Statistics by Region and Continent

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"What is the Best Country in the World? An Index of Morality, Conscience and Good Life" by Vexen Crabtree (2017)

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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 2017 Apr 26.

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 article "Average intelligence predicts atheism rates across 137 nations" 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. This edition had the theme of The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World. Published on the United Nation's HDR website at hdr.undp.org/.../hdr2013/ (accessed throughout 2013). UN Development Program: About the Human Development Index.
(2017) Human Development Report. Published by the UN Development Programme. Data for 2015. Analysis conducted by the UN Development Report Office. Available on hdr.undp.org/..

Footnotes

The Social and Moral Index by Vexen Crabtree (As of 2017 Apr 26).^^
UN (2017) Table 1. Higher is better.^
UN (2017) Table 1. Lower is better.^
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.^
LGBT sources:
- PF 2013: Pew Forum on pewforum.org/Gay-Marriage-and-Homosexuality/...-2013.aspx (page updated April 17, 2013, accessed on same date). (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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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).^
Gallup (2009).^
Pew Forum (2011) - data for 2010.^

Which are the Best Mediterranean Countries?

1. Social and Moral Development Index and Basic Demographics

2. Human Rights and Moral Development

3. Religion and Beliefs