Human Development Index 2011 Official Thread

[Anonymous No.3986352]

http://hdr.undp.org/en/
the new report has just been released.
oh wow

[Anonymous No.3986355]

so as you guys can see UK is a shithole

also

>USA
>poorness and unemployment everywhere
>4th

yeah as you wish

[Anonymous No.3986358]

this is flawed

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3986359]

>>3986355
It also calculates income when they're doing the HDI, so the top 1% would likely influence the final score.

[Anonymous No.3986367]

>>3986359
but if I'm not mistaken they also calculate the gap between rich and poor, wich would fuck us up in this ranking.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3986372]

>>3986367
I wish they did, but it doesn't seem like it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index#Dimensions_and_calculation

[Anonymous No.3986373]

>Czech Republic
>Average income - $12k
>Relatively low taxes
>Better than Britain

[Anonymous No.3986378]

gosh UK behind Czech republic

I call it silly billy bullshit

[Anonymous No.3986380]

>>3986372
http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/ihdi/

You have to pick this.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3986383]

>>3986373
>>3986378
I dunno guys, on the occasions I've heard of the Czech Republic it's been people praising them for fast cable internet and that sort of jazz. And the United Kingdom does appear to be going down the shitter, or at least London.

[Anonymous No.3986384]

fucking norway

[Anonymous No.3986385]

>>3986373
>>3986378

The average income is low, but it's not otherwise that bad here. Our low income is compensated by how cheap things are here.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3986388]

>>3986380
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Anonymous No.3986389]

oh zimbabue you guys are improving that's so cute

[Anonymous No.3986395]

>>3986388
fuck that

[Anonymous No.3986397]

>>3986383
Don't forget about good and FREE education, where the government also pays for most of your life expenses

[Anonymous No.3986398]

>>3986388
>US IHDI: 0.771
>Italy IHDI: 0.779

Worse than Italy. Are you even trying, America?

[Anonymous No.3986400]

I smell manipulation

[Anonymous No.3986403]

>UK
>first world

pick one

[Anonymous No.3986405]

>>3986400
I smell paranoia

[Anonymous No.3986408]

again australia is the second awww yeah

[Sheikah !NKCqu160yw No.3986412]

wooo go Australia

That's all I really have to contribute.

[Anonymous No.3986414]

>>3986408
forever the second, never the first

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3986415]

>>3986408
As an Australian, I don't feel proud of this fact, but rather wonder how badly the rest of the world is doing if our bullshit is 2nd in the world.

[Anonymous No.3986422]

>>3986415
I agree.

[Anonymous No.3986423]

Australia is second because of the fucking low internet

[Sheikah !NKCqu160yw No.3986424]

>>3986415

What would you suggest to improve Australia?

The Internet Censor has to be completely scrapped, and our enormous surplus of uranium should be put to good use, but I think that Australia's doing quite well for itself beyond those two criticisms.

[Anonymous No.3986429]

>china
>101th

and there it is, an enormous shithole being the dominant superpower in this planet within some years, great.
I think I prefer the fat americans, you guys gotta do something about it

[Anonymous No.3986430]

>>3986424
I know our education, especially higher education seems to be a lot better then most countries. Probably not the best, but it is good.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3986432]

>>3986424
- Cheaper electricity
- Cheaper petroleum or petroleum substitute for vehicles
- Nuclear energy (In the form of LFTRs)
- Vertical farms
- High-speed rail from Perth - Adelaide - Melbourne - Sydney - Brisbane (This is seriously being considered, fuck yes!)
- Lots of ambitious projects that will vacuum scientists and engineers from the rest of the world
- Tony Abbott to be fired on with paintball guns and no protection by anyone and everyone who hates him, to be broadcasted on national television.

So in short, LFTRs for Australia to improve it a whole lot more. And overhaul the education system, make it closer to the curriculum at the Australian Science and Mathematics School.

[Anonymous No.3986433]

Australian higher education is really cool. HECS is awesome and if you aren't silly its easy to get a scholarship.

[Anonymous No.3986440]

data/map/
Scroll time.
China no surprise they are racing up. Go Communism.
South Africa are stagnant as the rest of the world improves around them. Poor buggers.
United States is slowly rising but they are being overtaken. Meh

[Anonymous No.3986441]

>>3986432
>Tony Abbott to be fired on with paintball guns and no protection by anyone and everyone who hates him, to be broadcasted on national television.

I would PAY to shoot Tony Abbott in the nuts with a paintball gun

[Anonymous No.3986442]

>Education
>New Zealand
>Rank: 1

wat

[Anonymous No.3986443]

How does an Australian university education stack up against an American? It seems from the outside American universities are high pressure high competition.

[Anonymous No.3986450]

Australian seems to be on fire every other week.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3986452]

>>3986441
Fuck the carbon tax, we have a new way to raise the billions needed for renewable energy.

[Anonymous No.3986454]

>>3986443
I was talking more our payment. Majority of students get in on Commonwealth placements which are subsidized placements within university basically. Roughly $5,000 a year full time. On top of that you can HECS it meaning the government will pay your fees and you pay them back later. Generally only after you earn above $45,000 (cant remember exactly), and even then its apparently small payments. If you leave Australia, you don't have to pay at all.

[Sheikah !NKCqu160yw No.3986456]

>>3986432

>vertical farms

Aren't those incredibly inefficient? Amount of energy required is astronomical, though I suppose if energy was cheaper, that wouldn't be an issue.

I think most of those can be covered by extensive use of nuclear power, though. Fukushima put back nuclear power decades.

Not an expert, though, so I could be wrong.

[Anonymous No.3986459]

>>3986452
Definitely.

[Anonymous No.3986462]

well norway doesn't have our awesome climate

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3986465]

>>3986456
The only way vertical farming becomes commercially viable is if electricity is dirt-cheap.

As for inefficient, perhaps in the power requirements, but in terms of water and minerals used, they're far more efficient than normal farming as with hydroponics you can control exactly how much this or that nutrients or water you add to the mix, ensuring that every time you get exceptionally healthy, disease-free vegetables and fruits that can grow year-round and during the night. Since it's a skyscraper, it would be in a city centre, meaning that it would be right at home in the high CO2 atmospheric concentration, and clean the air for the surrounding metropolis.

[Anonymous No.3986466]

Feels good that Australia is 2nd
Wonder how long it lasts after the mining boom finishes

[Anonymous No.3986467]

>>3986440
> implying the US rise isn't fake and manipulated

[Anonymous No.3986470]

>>3986442
Endangered Species
Number one New Zealand.
Two Wins for N.Z.

[Sheikah !NKCqu160yw No.3986471]

I bet a payment scheme to hit pollies would go great. I would pay a great deal to hit Penny Wong. She drives me up the wall.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3986478]

>>3986471
What's so bad about Lesby Wong?

[Anonymous No.3986485]

>>3986466
there are several third world countries around that can be exploited

[Anonymous No.3986490]

>>3986485
If we send in our SAS we could.
If we gave our SAS PCP we could take South East Asia

[Anonymous No.3986492]

this is flawed and pure utter bullshit >:(

[Anonymous No.3986495]

>>3986492
mad butthurt british or third world citizen detected

[Sheikah !NKCqu160yw No.3986496]

>>3986478

She's so damn smug. When she was Climate Change minister she was so negative about nuclear power, while the Shadow Minister was open to the idea. Shame that neither of the major parties are open to it, but I'd imagine with how little this government is achieving, that a swing towards independants will be inevitable, especially considering how low approval ratings are for Gillard and Abbot.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3986500]

>>3986496
>Penny Wong
>anti-nuclear
Welp you've changed my opinion on her entirely with one post, seriously.

[Anonymous No.3986501]

>>3986492
Yarpie detected.

[Anonymous No.3986502]

>>3986478
She is a real politician.

[Anonymous No.3986506]

>>3986490
Implying you guys would be able to even take over a country like sri lanka haha
implying you guys actually have an army.

AMERIKA FUCK YEAHH

[Anonymous No.3986509]

Feels good man

[Anonymous No.3986513]

>>3986509
enjoy being frozen during summer

[Anonymous No.3986516]

>>3986501
>>3986495
fuck you

[Anonymous No.3986517]

>>3986506
Glad to see that American sense of humour.
Should google SAS training though it's interesting

[Anonymous No.3986519]

>>3986513
Enjoy sweating 24/7 during the winter

[Anonymous No.3986522]

>>3986506
oh americans you so silly

[Anonymous No.3986526]

>>3986490
the SAS are not a conquering force.

anyway if a join british and american task force cant conquer a bunch of sand niggers then they have no hope successfully of invading a country alone.

[Anonymous No.3986537]

>>3986519
>Implying we don't have the best climate ever
> implying my gigantic continental country only got one kind of climate, when actually it has almost every single kind of it

[Anonymous No.3986543]

>>3986526
we are talking about ching chong niggers, they're easier shit unless you're american.

[Anonymous No.3986556]

>>3986543
lol not really

[Anonymous No.3986572]

canada behind US eh?? something's wrong

[Anonymous No.3986612]

>>3986496
>swing to independants
>will probably also mean a swing to the Greens

Goddamn Greens, I like a lot of what you do but you need to stop being so afraid of the words "nuclear" and "uranium".

[Anonymous No.3986619]

>>3986526
You have to keep in mind, currently we're at least trying not to get too many civilians killed along the way. I suspect that and anything about installing an actual democratic government (as opposed to a puppet state) will go out the window once we invade Asia.

Not that China will be particularly happy about it, and we all know what happens in Asian land wars...

[Anonymous No.3986661]

>>3986432
>- High-speed rail from Perth - Adelaide - Melbourne - Sydney - Brisbane (This is seriously being considered, fuck yes!)

Whoa whoa seriously? Fuck I've wanted that for so long now.

[Liberty !!nQrIRh+JHbs No.3986678]

>>3986661

> high speed rail from perth to other side of country, 2500 miles
> not the dumbest idea ever

[Anonymous No.3986679]

Australia, New Zealand, Canada market economy god tier.
America corporatist shit hole

[Anonymous No.3986680]

>>3986454
>If you leave Australia, you don't have to pay at all.

Yeah, it's payed through the tax you pay on your paycheck so far as I know. -and yeah, tiny amounts really. Last time I checked it was <$50k

Not sure what it is now but I'm pretty sure it was raised again.

[Anonymous No.3986686]

> 21 Slovenia
> 22 Finland

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN

[Anonymous No.3986714]

>>3986465
>that pic
That is terrible. I want to backhand whoever shooped that image for making it so terrible.
It's like looking at a spongebob 'Last Supper' parody, but without it actually being a parody.

[Anonymous No.3986723]

>>3986678
>implying that transcontinental railways aren't the backbone of prosperity.

[Anonymous No.3986725]

>>3986432
>>3986661
>Wanting a clickity clackity train set
>Not taking a glorious fuel guzzling, oversized jet like a proper modern nation

Peasants.


It was hard to keep a straight face while writing this.

[Liberty !V1sPhobos. No.3986729]

>>3986678
*Greentexting part of post of another person*
*Variant of ISHYGDDT*
[Obama Reaction Image]

>>3986661
Err, I should've said that Melbourne - Sydney - Brisbane high-speed rail is being considered. Sorry.
Channel Nine News even did an internet poll on it, some exorbitantly high percentage of people wanted it, like 93%.

[Anonymous No.3986734]

>>3986723
where i'm from we don't need rails.

[Anonymous No.3986738]

>>3986734
Man, Australia is flatter than fucking Kansas!

[Anonymous No.3986748]

>>3986679
>New Zealand

Naw, don't lump them in with us. Also Canada/Australia are bros for life. Lets just ignore the rest of the world and share the love. You guys can come to Canada and go skiing, and we'll come down and chill on your beaches.

[Anonymous No.3986752]

Isn't America the largest federally unified nation in the world?

[Anonymous No.3986756]

>>3986738
flat land??
I've got a idea... GIANT HOVERCRAFT!

[Anonymous No.3986760]

>>3986738

There's stories of Truck drivers leaving the truck in cruise control, going to bed and then waking up the next morning still in going in the right direction

[Anonymous No.3986762]

>>3986752
isn't Russia a "federation" too? Going by its name, I mean

unless you mean population-wise

[Anonymous No.3986763]

>>3986756

But the scorpions man, they'll rip apart the skirt

[Anonymous No.3986768]

>>3986763
how big are the scorpions?

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3986770]

>>3986760
Really?

[Anonymous No.3986771]

>>3986763
Oh really?
I've got this image in my head, where we are sailing along the flat sands of Australia, catching the flora and fauna in protective nets around the hovercraft and enjoying a deliciously poisonous dinner each night.
How windy is australia?

[Anonymous No.3986772]

>>3986768

Their stingers could reach a foot off the ground, fully raised

[Anonymous No.3986774]

>>3986771

Pic related

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3986776]

>>3986774
Oh cool, I didn't know Mars had wheat, a blue sky and fences.

[Anonymous No.3986779]

>>3986770

Yeah, Adelaide to Perth. Or Adelaide to Darwin. Perfectly straight lines

[Anonymous No.3986780]

south american countries with high human development??
the fuck is going on??

[Anonymous No.3986783]

>>3986780

The developed people don't dare venture into the slums so nobody actually collects the data

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3986785]

>>3986780
Progress.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/143796-brazil-s-improving-economy-morgan-stanley-joins-the-bandwagon

>>3986779
Well I know I'll be terrified of semi-trailers on country highways until they make computer-navigated vehicles mandatory.

[Anonymous No.3986789]

>>3986779
i've driven the longest straight part of australian road. it's between perth and adelaide, and its about 150km

[Anonymous No.3986798]

>>3986785
You'll love to know that supposedly perfectly straight roads increase the chances of falling asleep at the wheel from boredom.

[Anonymous No.3986799]

>Melbourne-Sydney-Brisbane
Because fuck Canberra, right?

Anyway, adding Adelaide to that trifecta would probably be smarter than Canberra. There is a ridiculously high rate of trucks going between Adelaide and Melbourne carrying all sorts of shit, and there's nothing whatsoever anybody needs in Canberra, except maybe the ANU.

[Anonymous No.3986806]

>>3986785
isn't very high human development considered first world??
if so, then argentina and chile are first world countries. first world countries in South America!!
God fucking damn I'll start to believe in 2012

[Anonymous No.3986810]

>>3986799

A HSR from Adelaide to Melbourne would be great form developing the South East of South Australian and South West of Victoria

[Anonymous No.3986814]

>>3986806

No, it isn't considered First World, nobody can join the First World League. You're entries had to be in before 1991

[Anonymous No.3986817]

i don't think you can call it a high speed rail net work if it only goes to 3 places... thats more of a route.

[Anonymous No.3986821]

>>3986806
oh you silly prejudiced

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3986824]

>>3986810
This is exactly why I suggested it. I'm sure that if the United States decided to stick HSR in between New York - Chicago - Cheyenne, Wyoming - Portland that the latter two would experience massive amounts of growth and investment as millions of Americans go through the hubs every year.

[Anonymous No.3986830]

>>3986810

[Anonymous No.3986834]

just invest in the internet to remove the need to travel.
moving people more quickly doesn't help matters, as you'll end up with more people at the destination, waiting to use public transport, so you'll then haver to invest in the buses, underground etc.

if everyone worked from home, then there would be no demand for travel.

[Anonymous No.3986836]

>>3986824
Could you please not know where major cities outside of your country are, it makes my American heritage more painful.

[Anonymous No.3986837]

>>3986824
>implying that image isn't every political cartoon ever, but with art actually worth a damn.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3986842]

>>3986837
Hahahahaha! That's exactly what I was going for. I made it ages ago for /new/ to illustrate how it's basically every badly-caricatured political comic strip ever.

[Anonymous No.3986850]

what the fuck is happening with UK??
those damn alah akbar sand niggers

[Anonymous No.3986857]

>>3986850
you find its all those white working class bastards how live of benefits for generations.

if they actually did some work and educated their kids then there would be no need for those sand niggers and polls to come over her.

the lazy fucks.

[Anonymous No.3986872]

>>3986850
it's just the crisis, plus the al mustafakebabs everywhere

[Anonymous No.3986879]

haha look at Poortugal and laugh

[Anonymous No.3986883]

>>3986830
>over30secondsinmspaint.png

[Anonymous No.3986891]

>>3986883
In all seriousness, that is exactly what I was envisioning. I think it would be an excellent idea.

[Anonymous No.3986892]

>>3986883

Why not have both

[Anonymous No.3986897]

>>3986883
American here, what's wrong with whatever that place is?

[Anonymous No.3986900]

>>3986897

It's the Washington DC of Australia

[Anonymous No.3986905]

>>3986900
Ah.

[Anonymous No.3986906]

>>3986897
its where the queen of Australia lives.

[Anonymous No.3986921]

>>3986906
Oh that's right, you guys ARE a monarchy!
I've been sitting here in Texas thinking you guys where semi-anarchic because no one gave a damn to kill each other since the land was doing a good enough job of that, so no one gave a shit about the law as long as it wasn't something stupid like "Preserve the Funnel Web Spider!" or "No more internet!".

[Anonymous No.3986931]

>>3986921

We're going to leave the Monarchy when the queen dies

[Anonymous No.3986972]

Here we go, Maglev for Adelaide. 10km's longer than Shanghai's but 100x's as useful

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3986985]

>>3986972
>expensive maglev through Elizabeth
>expecting it not to be vandalized beyond usability within the week

Unless it's underground, very bad idea. I've lived there, the diesel trains that run past there go to shit.

[Anonymous No.3986987]

>>3986931
fair play, it is over rated... but i was kind of hopeing you'd guys take Charles and that horse of wife of his off are hands... maybe canada will take him?

[Anonymous No.3986990]

>>3986985

They'll be scared off by the technology.
I love Adelaide, but I fucking hate it's geography

[Anonymous No.3986999]

>>3986985

>Vandalism at 200kmh

ISHYDDT

[Anonymous No.3987005]

>>3986999
I would assume they'd have electric fences up.

[Anonymous No.3987034]

>>3987005

They need to have an entire powerplant dedicated to the fence just to fry the fuckers who try to touch it

[Anonymous No.3987053]

i am so proud iran is more developed than most in asia and south america and even some fully modernized European nations.

[Anonymous No.3987123]

>>3986999
THAT would be funny to watch, although getting the blood out of your clothes might be difficult.

[Anonymous No.3987198]

>>3987034
>7 million volt electric fence
I seriously hope you guys do this.