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The Czech republic has more Internet Service Providers than any other non-English speaking country.
Andorra has no unemployment, which is just as well because they have no broadcast TV channels either.
Andorrans live the longest, four years longer than in neighbouring France and Spain.
China's labor force stands at 706 million people, almost three times that of Europe and twice that of North and South America combined
China has the most workers, so it's a good thing they've also got the most TV's.
Clipperton Island wins our prize for the most unusual looking country.
Israel enjoys a GDP per capita 21 times that of the Palestinian West Bank and 33 times that of the Gaza Strip. Its military spending per capita tops the world.
North Korea spends the most of its GDP on its military.
Luxembourgers are the world's richest people - and also the most generous.
Indians go out to the movies 3 billion times a year.
The USA has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.
Americans and Icelanders go to the pictures on average 5 times a year, while Japanese go only once.
The United States spends more money on its military than the next 12 nations combined.
If you like kids, then Uganda might be the place for you. Half the population is under 15!
Most people live in poverty in most African countries.
Only two countries in the world are doubly landlocked: Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan.
Senior gentlemen might consider a trip to Russia, where there's two over 65 women for every man.
Sick of crowds? Try Greenland where there's 38 sq km per person.
Single guys should check out The Virgin Islands. Apart from sounding good, it has five women to every four men!
South Korea is the heliport capital of the world.
The United States has the most money, power, airports, cell phones, radios and ISP's.
The United States consumes more energy than India, the Middle East, South America, Africa, South East Asia and Oceania combined - which means more than 3.1 billion people.
The top 5 energy consumers are all cold countries. The next 6 are mostly oil producers.
Top per capita importing and exporting nations tend to be a little small.
In Australia, there's plenty of open road. Which is just as well, because you wouldn't want to park your car.
You're 66 times more likely to be prosecuted in the USA as in France.
Nearly 1% of Montserrations are police.
Most Zambians don't live to see their 40th birthday.
Want your kids to stay in school? Send them to Norway.
Mexico has the most Jehovah's Witnesses per capita in the OECD.
Guinea has the wettest capital on Earth with 3.7 metres of rain a year.
Qataris have lots and lots of gas.
Aussies picked up the most medals each at the Sydney Olympics, which brings them into the all time top 11.
Finns are perhaps the world's greatest athletes, ranked first at summer olympics and third in winter games.
Almost half of Ecuador is protected.
Guatamalan women work 11.5 hours a day, while South African men work only 4.5.
Kenyan women work 35% longer than their menfolk.
Ethopians are by far the most agricultural people on earth (both men and women)
Looking for Czech and Slovak men? Half are in factories.
Women are flooding into the workforce in many Muslim countries.
American women have the most powerful jobs.
Southern European women hugely outnumber their menfolk amongst the unemployed.
The top 8 most developed countries all speak Germanic languages. Every such country is in the top 20.
Belgium is the only country in the world where women dominate the ministry.
South America is unusual in that it is both urbanized and poor.
Swedes and Norweigans rank top 5 for both providing aid and exporting weapons.
On the probability of not reaching 40 graph, the top 34 countries are all African.
Former enemies, the Americans and Russians now have a great deal in common - they both lead the world in locking people up.
English speaking kids are the biggest novel readers but are the least enthusiastic comics readers.
Japanese and South Korean kids are the best at science and maths.
Three quarters of Japanese kids read comics.
American adults have been educated for the longest time.
Japan has 53 working nuclear reactors and is planning to build another 12.
Around 1992, Saudi Arabia overtook the United States as the world's largest oil producer.
Danish workers strike 150 times more than their German neighbours.
Many Americans live alone - America leads the world in one person households.
Hungarians die of cancer much, much more often than Finns.
Kazakhstan is the world's largest landlocked country.
Libya is the only country with a single-coloured flag.
Russia won the first World Air Games, held in Turkey in 1997. Events included hang-gliding, sky-surfing, and ballooning.
One in three adults aged 15-49 are infected with HIV/AIDS in Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Swaziland.
If you thought Antarctica was inhospitable, think again - its land area is only 98% ice. Reassuringly, the other 2% is categorised as 'barren rock'.
The Mall in Washington, D.C. is 1.4 times larger than Vatican City.
NationMaster.com is now 40 times the size of the CIA World Factbook!
Malaysia has the lowest rate of cinema attendance in the world.
In 2002, every 1000 Swedes made a bus.
Looking for geniuses? Head straight to Iceland. There are more than 3.5 Nobel Prize Winners for every million Icelanders.
People might eat oats when they're hungry, but people from Hungary don't eat oats.
Japan's water has a very high dissolved oxygen concentration - but not enough to prevent drowning in the bath.
Indonesia has the most known mammal species - and the most mammal species under threat.
The four largest nations are Russia, China, USA, and Canada.
Brazil takes up 47.8% of South America.
Sri Lanka has lowest divorce rate in the world - and the highest rate of female suicide.
Per capita, South Africa has the most assaults, rapes, and murders with firearms.
Australians have a huge 380,000 sq m of land per person - and yet 91% live in urban areas.
Nearly a quarter of people in Monaco are over 65.
Canada lays claim to more water than any other nation.
Almost the entire Cook Islands are covered by forest.
Contrary to the popular rhyme, the rain falls mainly on Guinea.
72% of people in Mali earn less than $1 per day.
There are 22 countries where more than half the population is illiterate. Fifteen of them are in Africa.
62% of Bulgarians describe themselves as either 'not very' or 'not at all' happy.
More than a third of the time, Icelanders don't show up for work. Perhaps that's why they're the world's happiest nation.
Two-thirds of the world's executions occur in China.
The fourteen unhappiest countries are all in Eastern Europe.
Moldova has one of the smallest artillery forces in Europe, and the highest rate in the world of death by powered lawnmower. Coincidence? Surely not.
22% of New Zealanders have used cannabis.
America puts many more of its citizens in prison than any other nation.
Two-thirds of the world's kidnappings occur in Colombia.
The women of Iceland earn two-thirds of their nation's university degrees.
Half of Indonesia's primary school teachers are under 30 years of age.
41% world's poor people live in India.
On average, women in New Zealand do not give birth until they are 30 years old.
Mexican women spend 15.3% of their life in ill health.
22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so.
Venezuela is one of the happiest and most murderous places in the world.
In the 1990's, nearly half of all arms exported to developing countries came from America.
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