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Originally Posted by CreatineGuy
Now, let's see all those US guys who will start feeding this thread with hate.  |
SOME FACTS ABOUT THE USA
Ranked 3rd in total land
Ranked 3rd in total population
Largest GDP in the world (the value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year)
Largest GDP (nominal) which is the GDP nominalized based on currency exchange rates
the United States was ranked as the third most visited tourist destination in the world
IMD International: World Competitiveness Yearbook 2004 (
http://www01.imd.ch/wcy/), Rank 1 out of 60 economies (countries and regions)
World Economic Forum: Global Competitiveness Report 2004-2005 (
http://www.weforum.org/site/homepubl...iveness+Report) - Growth Competitiveness Index Ranking, Rank 2 out of 104 countries
UNDP: Human Development Index 2004 (
http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2004/), Rank 8 out of 177 countries
Save the Children: State of the World?s Mothers 2004 (
http://www.savethechildren.org/mothe...004_final.pdf), Rank 10 out of 119 countries
Transparency International: Corruption Perceptions Index 2004 (
http://www.transparency.org/pressrel...0.cpi.en.html), Rank 17 out of 146 countries (tied with Belgium and Ireland)
Reporters without borders: Third annual worldwide press freedom index (2004) (
http://www.rsf.fr/article.php3?id_article=11715), Rank 22 (American territory; tied with Belgium) & 108 (in Iraq) out of 167 countries
97% literacy rate
4th largest labor force
2nd largest exports ? $714,500,000,000
Largest imports - $ 1,260,000,000,000
Largest donor of economic aid throughout the world $6.9 billion
Largest number of internet hosts, 115,311,958 more than quadrupling that of the 2nd place European Union
2nd largest number of internet users 159,000,000 (206,032,067 for the whole European Union)
Largest total military expenditures, but we?re 37th per capita
269 billionaires ? close to 10x that of #2 Japan
11th ?cleanest countries?
#1 country with the most computers ? almost 4x that of #2 Japan
#1 nobel prize winners (270), more than 2.5x that of #2 UK
Athletes with the most Olympic Medals ? almost 2x that of USSR, almost 4x that of #3 UK
6th highest quality of life
#2 highest per-capita income
#1 most university students, almost 3x that of #2 India, almost 5x that of #3 Japan
#2 most universities
#2 most visited by tourists
#3 country with most workers
The world?s largest source of humanitarian aid ? 15.8billion ? almost 2x as much as #2 Japan (These figures do not include aid to Afghanistan, Iraq or world food aid, which the United States is the largest contributor.)
When your piddly shit little country can beat all of these statistics, you can come back and post your Anti-USA bullshit.