Sentences with phrase «to rank countries»

A new report ranks countries by their green investments, and also compares performance to our perceptions.

The survey also amazingly revealed that the dollar volume of sales from Chinese buyers exceeded the total dollar sales figure of the next top - four ranked countries combined.

For context, you can view a map of all 136 ranked countries here.

Value - rotation strategies (for example, ranking countries by dividend yield) have historically offered up higher returns than the broad benchmarks.

A new index which ranks countries on how likely their firms are to pay bribes abroad has put the UK eighth.

One report suggested Spanish women were the «greatest flirts», based on an unofficial study by a dating website which ranked countries based on initiations of contact.

Today marks the release of Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) which ranks countries based on how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be.

USA managed to lose to the lowest ranked country in the group while both Honduras and Panama beat the number 1 and 2.

The Global Innovation Index ranked countries by measuring seven key metrics that enable innovation in each territory:

The United States is among the lowest ranking countries when it comes to preventing fatality and sickness during birth.

Ghana is among the top ranked countries in the world with strong anti-homosexuality sentiments.

Meanwhile, Rwanda was the highest ranked country worldwide with the most female parliamentarians with 64 percent of seats.

Companies in Ireland pay low corporate taxes — 12.5 percent — which is part of the reason the World Bank Group recently ranked the country as the No. 13 best place to start a business in the world.

Standards of reading and maths have fallen to such an extent that the UK has fallen out of the top - ten of ranked countries, making it the only country previously ranked above - average to drop out of the top performing group.

The Business Software Alliance recently ranked countries for «cloud preparedness,» based on factors such as broadband penetration, free trade, copyright and cybercrime law.

The Ease of Doing Business index ranks countries against one another based on how the regulatory environment is conducive to business operations.

The Index put together by Transparency International ranks countries annually by their perceived levels of corruption, as determined by expert assessments and opinion surveys.

And according to London - based think tank Demos, Sweden leads the Euro - Creativity Index, which ranks countries according to talent, technology, and tolerance — three factors supposed to indicate a country's creative potential.

Earlier this year the OECD released data ranking countries by the value of their cultural production.

The Conference Board of Canada ranked the country 14 out of 16 nations in terms of the number of patents per capita.

Symantec, in its 2016 Internet Security Threat Report, ranked the country eighth in the world for bot - based cybercrime (a bot is a device that lives on a user's PC and provides a wide variety of automated tasks for hackers).

I know what you're thinking — how do I get a job at the UN ranking countries based on happiness?

The latest index records only modest gains of 2.6 % in Australian house prices over the past year to March (using ABS data), ranking the country 10th best performing global housing markets out of 18 over 2012 with the top performing market being Hong Kong (24.5 %) followed by Brazil (12.8 %), South Africa (11.1 %) and India (10.7 %).

Sri Lanka developed a distinctive economy that for a while led to ranking this country quite high in terms of life expectancy and general wellbeing while still quite low in per capita income.

Here is one study that adjusted the rates and found the US ranked 11th in neonatal mortality — with very little difference (less than 1 in a thousand babies) between the US and the first ranked country.

In a paper last year in Science, Gelfand ranked countries on a tightness scale; Israel came in at 3.1, the United States at 5.1, and Pakistan at 12.3.

Lelo crunched the numbers and released a list this week that ranked the countries where people orgasm the most and most intensely, as well as nations where citizens might want to amp up the bedroom action and increase their weekly orgasm count.

The World Economic Forum ranks the country 146 of 148 countries for educational quality.

Similarly, the recent TIMSS data show the United States to be the middle - ranked country among the 11 for which the organization could fully track student performance since 1995.

«A single person can live very comfortably here for about $ 1,000 a month,» says David Morrill, the Ecuador correspondent for International Living, which ranked the country No. 2 on its list of desirable retirement locales.

The leaderboards rank countries by how many «Virus Cycles» they have cleared (or zombies killed) and also rank you individually compared to other players from your country.

After ranking countries by the size of their demand for natural resources and the size of the country's ability to produce and replenish those resources, we wanted to know which countries live within their ecological means, and which countries rack up ecological debt.

We filtered out warnings that had been issued for natural disasters, then ranked countries based on the number of Travel Warnings issued against them in an 8 - year period between 2009 and 2017.

A new report on Innovation for Development out of the European Business School ranks countries» ability to propel innovation in ways that advance societies.

The Capital Access Index ranks countries around the world in terms of the financial infrastructures that support entrepreneurial activity by providing access to capital.

Indonesia had 69 million monthly active Facebook users as of the first quarter of 2014, ranking the country fourth globally after the United States, India and Brazil, company data showed.

Each Report Card includes a league table ranking the countries of the OECD according to their record on the subject under discussion.

MarketWatch ranks the country's top real estate markets.

Nationally, the Miami - Fort Lauderdale area is consistently one of the top markets for most of the highest ranking countries searching for property in the U.S..

According to the report: «Our data team ranked the country's 300 largest markets in terms of housing supply (measured by days on market) and demand (measured by listing views on our site) to come up with the top 20 hottest markets in the U.S. for this month.»

Belize also made the list that U.S. News & World Report published on «Best Affordable Vacations in Central and South America,» ranking the country as number eight.

Because of that, they tend to celebrate second and third place finishers more — and to prefer the «total - medal method» for ranking countries in the Olympics, rather than the «gold - first method.»

In Singapore, the top ranked country on the index, it takes 150 days on average to enforce a similar contract.

As the newest addition to their EdPolicy Leaders online course portfolio, this free, self - paced course takes a deep dive into the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a global survey that ranks countries against one another based on educational achievement.