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Social & Moral Development Index Higher is better Points₁

1	Israel	67.0
2	Cyprus	62.1
3	Qatar	56.0
4	Turkey	55.6
5	Kuwait	55.0
6	Bahrain	53.6
7	Oman	53.1
8	Lebanon	52.2
9	UAE	51.9
10	Jordan	50.4
	Middle East Avg	50.2
	World Avg	54.5
q=17.

Almost exclusively dominated by Muslim countries, the Middle East in general has severe problems with human rights, gender equality and cultural misogyny, religious tolerance₂ and LGBT equality. It is the Arabian and Islamic countries in this region where human rights is poor₃. Acceptance of democratic and human-rights principles is largely impossible given the prominence of Islamic theocracy, and religion-based persecution is at its most severe in this area₂. The two countries that do not fit in this pattern bear these criticisms out: Cyprus and Israel are both non-Islamic states and they come 1st and 2nd on the Social and Moral Index for this region.

There are 17 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: 384.2m
Total Land Area: 7 242 420km²
Independent States: 16
Other Territories: 1

1. Social and Moral Development Index and Basic Demographics

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.

		Social & Moral Higher is better Points₁	Life Expectancy (2015) Higher is better Years₄	Gross National Income (2011) Higher is better PPP $₄	UN HDI (2016) Lower is better Rank₅	Population (2012)₆	Land Area (2011) km²₇	People Per km² Lower is better
1	Israel	67.0	82.56	$31 215	19	7.7m	21 640	356
2	Cyprus	62.1	80.33	$29 459	33	1.1m	9 240	122
3	Qatar	56.0	78.32	$129 916	33	1.9m	11 610	167
4	Turkey	55.6	75.53	$18 705	71	74.5m	769 630	97
5	Kuwait	55.0	74.55	$76 075	51	2.9m	17 820	162
6	Bahrain	53.6	76.72	$37 236	47	1.4m	760	1 789
7	Oman	53.1	76.97	$34 402	52	2.9m	309 500	9
8	Lebanon	52.2	79.54	$13 312	76	4.3m	10 230	420
9	UAE	51.9	77.12	$66 203	42	8.1m	83 600	97
10	Jordan	50.4	74.18	$10 111	86	6.5m	88 780	73
11	Iran	47.3	75.58	$16 395	69	75.6m	1 628 550	46
12	Egypt	47.1	71.33	$10 064	111	84.0m	995 450	84
13	Saudi Arabia	46.2	74.44	$51 320	38	28.7m	2 149 690	13
14	Syria	44.8	69.65	$2 441	149	21.1m	183 630	115
15	Palestine	38.9	73.07	$5 256	114	4.3m
16	Iraq	38.5	69.63	$11 608	121	33.7m	434 320	78
17	Yemen	32.8	64.05	$2 300	168	25.6m	527 970	48
	Middle East Avg	50.2	74.92	$32 119	75.3	22.6m	452 651	50
	World Avg	54.5	71.27	$17 240	94.3	36.0m	620 450	58
q=17.

2. Human Rights and Moral Development

		Social & Moral Higher is better Points₁	Gender Inequality (2015) Lower is better₈	Nominal Commitment to HR (2009) Higher is better Treaties₉	Press Freedom (2013) Lower is better₁₀	LGBT Equality (2013) Higher is better Score₁₁
1	Israel	67.0	0.10	12	3297	40
2	Cyprus	62.1	0.12	20	1383	25
3	Qatar	56.0	0.54	10	3286	-70
4	Turkey	55.6	0.33	17	4656	100
5	Kuwait	55.0	0.33	12	2828	-120
6	Bahrain	53.6	0.23	12	6275	-20
7	Oman	53.1	0.28	9	4151	-50
8	Lebanon	52.2	0.38	12	3015	-30
9	UAE	51.9	0.23	7	3349	-520
10	Jordan	50.4	0.48	14	3847	10
11	Iran	47.3	0.51	9	7340	-520
12	Egypt	47.1	0.57	16	4866	-20
13	Saudi Arabia	46.2	0.26	10	5688	-520
14	Syria	44.8	0.55	14	7853	-50
15	Palestine	38.9			4309
16	Iraq	38.5	0.53	9	4467	-10
17	Yemen	32.8	0.77	16	6922	-520
	Middle East Avg	50.2	0.39	12.4	4561	-142.2
	World Avg	54.5	0.36	15.1	3249	-07.3
q=17.

3. Religion and Beliefs

		Religiosity (2009) Lower is better %₁₂	Disbelief In God (2007) Higher is better₁₃	Jews (2010)₁₄	Christians (2010)₁₄	Muslims (2010)₁₄	Hindus (2010)₁₄	Buddhists (2010)₁₄	Folk Religion	Unaffiliated
1	Bahrain	94		0.6%	14.5%	70.3%	9.8%	2.5%	0.1%	1.9%
2	Cyprus	75		0.1%	73.2%	25.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	1.2%
3	Egypt	97	0	0.1%	5.1%	94.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
4	Iran		4	0.1%	0.2%	99.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
5	Iraq	84	0	0.1%	0.8%	99.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
6	Israel	51	15	75.6%	2.0%	18.6%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%	3.1%
7	Jordan		0	0.1%	2.2%	97.2%	0.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
8	Kuwait	91	0	0.1%	14.3%	74.1%	8.5%	2.8%	0.1%	0.1%
9	Lebanon	87	3	0.1%	38.3%	61.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%
10	Oman		0	0.1%	6.5%	85.9%	5.5%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%
11	Qatar	95		0.1%	13.8%	67.7%	13.8%	3.1%	0.1%	0.9%
12	Saudi Arabia	93	0	0.1%	4.4%	93.0%	1.1%	0.3%	0.3%	0.7%
13	Syria	89	0	0.1%	5.2%	92.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	2.0%
14	Turkey	82		0.1%	0.4%	98.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	1.2%
15	UAE	91	0	0.1%	12.6%	76.9%	6.6%	2.0%	0.1%	1.1%
16	Yemen	99	0	0.1%	0.2%	99.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
17	Palestine	93		0.1%	2.4%	97.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
	Middle East Avg	87.2	1.8	4.6%	11.5%	79.4%	2.8%	0.8%	0.1%	0.8%
	World Avg	75.1	9.9	0.5%	60.6%	22.4%	2.0%	3.5%	2.7%	7.9%
q=17.

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Footnotes

"What is the Best Country in the World? An Index of Morality, Conscience and Good Life" by Vexen Crabtree (2017)^^^
Grim (2011) digital location 573.^
Donnelly (2013) p178.^
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.^
Higher is better. 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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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).^
Pew Forum (2011) - data for 2010.^

Which are the Best Countries in the Middle East?

1. Social and Moral Development Index and Basic Demographics

2. Human Rights and Moral Development

3. Religion and Beliefs