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The 20 "Goodest" Countries

Can you name the countries that, according to the guy in the picture, contribute most to the common good of humanity relative to their population?
According to the Good Country Index by Simon Anholt: https://index.goodcountry.org/
Last updated 13.10.2024
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Rank
Country
1st
Sweden
2nd
Denmark
3rd
Germany
4th
Netherlands
5th
Finland
6th
Canada
7th
Belgium
8th
Ireland
9th
France
10th
Austria
Rank
Country
11th
Norway
12th
Luxembourg
13th
Spain
14th
United Kingdom
15th
Switzerland
16th
Cyprus
17th
Slovenia
18th
Australia
19th
New Zealand
20th
Iceland
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15 Comments
Eutychus
+1
Level 94
Feb 2, 2016
I wonder where the author of this list is from...
KoljiVriVoda
+1
Level 81
Feb 2, 2016
Me too.
Baalhammon
+1
Level 71
Feb 7, 2016
From the United Kingdom i believe, if that wasn't rhetorical.
cosmokim
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Level 70
Feb 2, 2016
I am sick of people not including the United States on these lists. Sure, it can be improved. Sure, it's not all that peaceful. But it has contributed to humanity more than, say, Iceland. So have South Korea, Japan, and China. Before you start complaining about China, it never said anything about bad governments, and think about what would be different if China was erased from the map. South Korea is a leading medical country and has probably saved millions of lives with vaccinations. Japan has all these wonderful technologically advanced inventions and without that many of our everyday appliances would be unusable. Back to the United States: I find it absurd that countries such as Cyprus and Luxembourg have contributed to humanity more than the States, and think that maybe we should be easier on the States.
Baalhammon
+2
Level 71
Feb 7, 2016
I understand your argument, but do check out the original list (http://www.goodcountry.org/overall). They specifically state why each country has the ranking they currently hold.
100Greats
+3
Level 56
Jan 27, 2019
https://www.goodcountryindex.org/results

This is the new ranking, released January 2019

Baalhammon
+1
Level 71
Feb 7, 2016
Also, the United States happens to be number 21 on the overall ranking list
LucaLucky
+2
Level 47
Oct 13, 2024
Just read the description: "relative to their population"
groanman
+1
Level 83
Feb 2, 2016
Tried U.S., Greece, China, Japan. Gave up.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Aug 15, 2016
It would seem that this list looks only at the current situation, and not at past events, which explains Germany's high rank, and the relatively low rank of the United States. Fair enough. But might want to change the caveats which imply that this takes history into account.
divantilya
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Level 36
Nov 3, 2016
It might also be that those countries had a longer time to accomplish what they have or have not. The USA, after all is only a couple hundred years old. Given the age of some of these other countries (where are Egypt and Iran?) they should actually have accomplished more.
100Greats
+2
Level 56
Jan 27, 2019
The new ranking is from January 2019, here:

https://www.goodcountryindex.org/results

InfiniteBulk
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Level 73
Jan 29, 2021
To be honest I would prefer this quiz didn't exist. The topic is extremely controversial and the title isn't capitalized correctly.
Baalhammon
+1
Level 71
Jan 31, 2021
I fixed the capitalization.

Regarding the topic, here's an excerpt from the site:

"The Good Country Index doesn’t make moral judgments: it simply reports on each country’s external impacts, positive and negative, outside its own borders, using the most reliable data available.

The Good Country Index is one of many projects Simon Anholt has devised to start a global debate about what countries are for. Should they exist only to serve their own interests, or do they have a wider responsibility to humanity and the planet?"

I'm not saying Anholt's claims here can't be disputed (positive and negative are very much debatable) or that the topic isn't controversial, but I do think that from a quiz perspective it's an interesting puzzle to think about. There's even room for debate in the comments if people have opinions.

JonOfKent
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Level 61
Oct 15, 2024
It's totally silly (as if any of us could have a half-adequate grasp of what even one country has done for the good of mankind, let alone all of them - and that's before you've even started to think about how any such list can even begin to be objective) but that is to my mind what makes it fun.
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