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International Rankings 2009/2010

1. Index of Economic Freedom 2010
(Wall Street Journal & The Heritage Foundation)
Rankings out of 179 countries: Cyprus:24 Greece:73 Turkey:67
http://www.heritage.org/index/Ranking.aspx

2. Human Development Index 2009
(UNDP)
Rankings out of 182 countries: Cyprus:32 Greece:25 Turkey:79
http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/

3. Worldwide quality-of-life index, 2005
(The Economist)
Rankings out of 111 countries: Cyprus:23 Greece:22 Turkey:50
http://www.economist.com/media/pdf/QUALITY_OF_LIFE.PDF

4. Satisfaction with Life Index 2006
(University of Leicester)
Rankings out of 178 countries: Cyprus:49 Greece:84 Turkey:133
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisfacti ... Life_Index

5. Economic Freedom of the World 2009
(The Fraser Institute)
Rankings out of 141 countries: Cyprus:21 Greece:50 Turkey:82
http://www.freetheworld.com/2009/report ... 09_ch4.pdf

6. The State of World Liberty Project
(Libertarian activist Nick Wilson)
Rankings out of 159 countries: Cyprus:9 Greece:46 Turkey:84
http://www.stateofworldliberty.org/report/rankings.html

7. Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2009
(Reporters Without Borders)
Rankings out of 175 countries: Cyprus:25 Greece:35 Turkey:122
http://www.rsf.org/en-classement1001-2009.html

8. Corruption Perceptions Index 2009
(Transparency International)
Rankings out of 180 countries: Cyprus:27 Greece:71 Turkey:61
http://www.transparency.org/policy_rese ... 2009_table

9. Global Competitiveness Report 2009
(World Economic Forum)
Rankings out of 133 countries: Cyprus:34 Greece:71 Turkey:61
http://www.weforum.org/pdf/GCR09/GCR200 ... nkings.pdf

10. Environmental Performance Index 2010
(Yale University)
Rankings out of 163 countries: Cyprus:96 Greece:71 Turkey:77
http://epi.yale.edu/Countries/Cyprus

11. Globalization Index 2009
(KOF)
Rankings out of 156 countries: Cyprus:19 Greece:32 Turkey:57
http://globalization.kof.ethz.ch/

12. Happy Planet Index 2009
(NEF)
Rankings out of 143 countries: Cyprus:62 Greece:97 Turkey:83
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Plan ... l_rankings

13. Index of Democracy 2008
(The Economist Intelligence Unit)
Rankings out of 167 countries: Cyprus:36 Greece:22 Turkey:87
http://graphics.eiu.com/PDF/Democracy%2 ... 202008.pdf

14. The Sovereign Rating Measure
(The Economist Intelligence Unit)
Rankings out of 120 countries: Cyprus:A Greece:BB Turkey:B
http://www.eiu.com/site_info.asp?info_n ... gn_ratings


Putting it all together…

[Oracle]

13. Index of Democracy 2008
(The Economist Intelligence Unit)
Rankings out of 167 countries: Cyprus:36 Greece:22 Turkey:87
http://graphics.eiu.com/PDF/Democracy%2 ... 202008.pdf

Well seems like Greece and Cyprus are pretty similar then. Bearing in mind how much Greece has to fork out to protect EU borders against belligerent neighbours. Prime benefactor, Cyprus!

Cyprus and Greece ... Sisters together forever!

[Get Real!]

13. Index of Democracy 2008
(The Economist Intelligence Unit)
Rankings out of 167 countries: Cyprus:36 Greece:22 Turkey:87
http://graphics.eiu.com/PDF/Democracy%2 ... 202008.pdf

Well seems like Greece and Cyprus are pretty similar then. Bearing in mind how much Greece has to fork out to protect EU borders against belligerent neighbours. Prime benefactor, Cyprus!

Cyprus and Greece ... Sisters together forever!

Woman, what drugs are you on? Cyprus leaves Greece and Turkey for dead in 10 out 14 of those indexes, and that was before Greece’s financial scandals surfaced!

[Oracle]

13. Index of Democracy 2008
(The Economist Intelligence Unit)
Rankings out of 167 countries: Cyprus:36 Greece:22 Turkey:87
http://graphics.eiu.com/PDF/Democracy%2 ... 202008.pdf

Well seems like Greece and Cyprus are pretty similar then. Bearing in mind how much Greece has to fork out to protect EU borders against belligerent neighbours. Prime benefactor, Cyprus!

Cyprus and Greece ... Sisters together forever!

Woman, what drugs are you on? Cyprus leaves Greece and Turkey for dead in 10 out 14 of those indexes, and that was before Greece’s financial scandals surfaced!

You need to be more selective. Some of those rankings are meaningless!

[Get Real!]

13. Index of Democracy 2008
(The Economist Intelligence Unit)
Rankings out of 167 countries: Cyprus:36 Greece:22 Turkey:87
http://graphics.eiu.com/PDF/Democracy%2 ... 202008.pdf

Well seems like Greece and Cyprus are pretty similar then. Bearing in mind how much Greece has to fork out to protect EU borders against belligerent neighbours. Prime benefactor, Cyprus!

Cyprus and Greece ... Sisters together forever!

Woman, what drugs are you on? Cyprus leaves Greece and Turkey for dead in 10 out 14 of those indexes, and that was before Greece’s financial scandals surfaced!

You need to be more selective. Some of those rankings are meaningless!

Cypriots are obviously superior to Greeks and Turks and that’s something you’ve got to come to terms with!

Btw, you’re talking to a 100% Cypriot of ancient Choirokitian descent right now, so I hope you’re standing attention while posting!

[Malapapa]

Public expenditure on education as a percent of GDP

Rankings out of 182 countries: Cyprus:35 Greece:92 Turkey:102
https://www.cia.gov/library/publication ... 6rank.html

[Piratis]

Get Real, there can be a lot of "indexes" and the results you show will depend on what you choose.

Some of what you posted is based solely in perceptions of people, such as "Satisfaction with Life" and "Corruption Perceptions". Several other indexes are about how free the market is. A "Free Market" is not necessarily a good thing, as it tells you how capitalistic a country is. I would say that an "average" score in the "Free Market" indexes is better than being at the top of the table.

The important report is the Human Development Index, which measures a lot of factors before it comes to the final score.

[Bananiot]

3 - 0 to Cyprus, goals scored by Bengevencovic, Satiroglu and Ritsotakis. Bloody fools!

[Get Real!]

Public expenditure on education as a percent of GDP

Thanks for the link Malapapa! Three more extracted from it...


15. Unemployment rate 2009
(The CIA World Factbook)
Rankings out of 200 countries: Cyprus:43 Greece:98 Turkey:145
https://www.cia.gov/library/publication ... 9rank.html


16. Inflation rate (consumer prices) 2009
(The CIA World Factbook)
Rankings out of 222 countries: Cyprus:41 Greece:43 Turkey:162
https://www.cia.gov/library/publication ... 2rank.html


17. Current account balance 2009
(The CIA World Factbook)
Rankings out of 191 countries: Cyprus:145 Greece:187 Turkey:178
https://www.cia.gov/library/publication ... 7rank.html


“Mother” countries?

Greece and Turkey are 3rd world gypsies so stand up tall as a Cypriot and quit embarrassing yourself!

[miltiades]

13. Index of Democracy 2008
(The Economist Intelligence Unit)
Rankings out of 167 countries: Cyprus:36 Greece:22 Turkey:87
http://graphics.eiu.com/PDF/Democracy%2 ... 202008.pdf

Well seems like Greece and Cyprus are pretty similar then. Bearing in mind how much Greece has to fork out to protect EU borders against belligerent neighbours. Prime benefactor, Cyprus!

Cyprus and Greece ... Sisters together forever!

Woman, what drugs are you on? Cyprus leaves Greece and Turkey for dead in 10 out 14 of those indexes, and that was before Greece’s financial scandals surfaced!

You need to be more selective. Some of those rankings are meaningless!

Cypriots are obviously superior to Greeks and Turks and that’s something you’ve got to come to terms with!

Btw, you’re talking to a 100% Cypriot of ancient Choirokitian descent right now, so I hope you’re standing attention while posting!

We don't often see eye to eye but I have to say what on earth is it that makes Cypriots wanting to a part of these two nations that , as I have said many times before are far inferior to Cyprus .