Freedom of the Press?
we're tied for 16
Privacy?
U.S. privacy protections rank among the worst in the democratic world, a London-based privacy organization said Wednesday.
Privacy International ranked 36 nations around the globe, including all European Union nations and other major democracies, and determined that in categories such as enforcement of privacy laws, the U.S. is on par with countries like China, Russia and Malaysia.
The U.S. ranks 1st in suspected drug criminals
The U.S. ranks 44th in women's pay
According to the Economist Intelligence Unit Democracy Index 2008, the United States is tied with Romania for forty-ninth in civil liberties. Several countriesAustralia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and Norwayare tied for first.
According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, the United States is the eighteenth most democratic country out of 167 countries indexed. Sweden is the most democratic.
According to worldaudit.org, the United States is the seventeenth least corrupt country out of 179 surveyed. Finland is the least corrupt.
According to the OECD, between 2003 and 2006, American students declined by nine points in their PISA mathematics performance scores, which made the United States rank thirty-fourth out of thirty nine countries in that category. Indonesia ranked first, with an increase of 31 points in the PISA score.
According to a 2006 study first published in the magazine, Science, the United States ranks thirty-third out of thirty four nations (32 in Europe plus Japan and the United States) in acceptance of evolution. Iceland ranks first. Only Turkey ranked lower than the United States in the acceptance of evolution.
According to the United Nations Children's Fund, in the United States, three percent of the central government budget is allotted to education, making the United States tied for one hundred and thirty-fourth (with Belgium, Guinea-Bissau, and Nigeria) in that category. Benin ranks first in that category, with 31% of the central government's budget allotted to education. The world average is five percent, and the average for industrialized nations is four percent.
According to the Programme for International Student Assessment, the United States ranks thirty-fifth in terms of the mean score for mathematics. Taiwan ranks first.
We rank 15th in literacy and 14th in college graduation
According to the OECD, the average American spends 24% of her or his day in leisure activities, which makes the United States rank twelfth out of eighteen OECD nations in that category. Belgium ranks first, at 27.7%, and Mexico ranks last, at 15.8%. The OECD average is 24.1%.
According to the OECD, 12% of American workers were union members in 2004, which made the United States rank twenty-seventh out of thirty OECD member nations. Sweden ranked first, with 77.3% of workers as union members.
