International rankings of Burma
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The following are international rankings of Burma (Myanmar).

Demographics

  • Population: 24/223
  • Population density: 127/239
  • Total fertility rate
    Total Fertility Rate
    The total fertility rate of a population is the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if she were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates through her lifetime, and she...

    : 148/223 (1.89)
  • Death rate:
    • CIA World Factbook: 78/192
    • United Nations: 69/195

Economy

  • GDP per capita: 208/227
  • Nominal GDP:
    • International Monetary Fund
      International Monetary Fund
      The International Monetary Fund is an organization of 187 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world...

       (2009): 86/181
    • CIA World Factbook (2009): 89/190
  • GDP (nominal) per capita:
    • International Monetary Fund: 165/180
    • CIA World Factbook: 166/191
  • GDP (PPP) (2009):
    • International Monetary Fund: 78/180
    • CIA World Factbook: 83/193
  • GDP (PPP) per capita:
    • International Monetary Fund: 161/181
    • CIA World Factbook: 175/194
  • Real GDP growth rate: 82/213
  • External debt (2002): 123/202
  • Foreign exchange reserves: 93/156
  • Index of Economic Freedom (2010): 175/179
  • Economic Freedom of the World rankings (2009): 140/141

Energy


Environment

  • Environmental Performance Index
    Environmental Performance Index
    The Environmental Performance Index is a method of quantifying and numerically benchmarking the environmental performance of a country's policies. This index was developed from the Pilot Environmental Performance Index, first published in 2002, and designed to supplement the environmental targets...

     (2010): 110/163
  • Happy Planet Index
    Happy Planet Index
    The Happy Planet Index is an index of human well-being and environmental impact that was introduced by the New Economics Foundation in July 2006. The index is designed to challenge well-established indices of countries’ development, such as Gross Domestic Product and the Human Development Index...

     (2009): 39/143

Geography


Health

  • Cigarette consumption per capita (2007): 105/121
  • Life expectancy (2009):
    • CIA World Factbook: 171/223
    • United Nations: 148/194
  • HIV/AIDS adult prevalence rate: 22/160
  • HIV/AIDS death rate: 18/153
  • Undernourishment levels: 44/76
  • Infant mortality rate:
    • CIA World Factbook: 172/224
    • United Nations
      United Nations
      The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...

      : 158/195
  • WHO
    Who
    Who may refer to:* Who , an English-language pronoun* who , a Unix command* Who?, one of the Five Ws in journalism- Art and entertainment :* Who? , a 1958 novel by Algis Budrys...

     Total health expenditure (PPP) per capita: 189/194
  • Child Development Index
    Child Development Index
    The Child Development Index is an index combining performance measures specific to children - education, health and nutrition - to produce a score on a scale of 0 to 100. A zero score would be the best...

     (2000-2006): 93/137

Military

  • Total number of troops: 24/172
  • Number of active troops per 1000 capita: 22/172
  • Global Peace Index
    Global Peace Index
    The Global Peace Index is an attempt to measure the relative position of nations' and regions' peacefulness. It is the product of Institute for Economics and Peace and developed in consultation with an international panel of peace experts from peace institutes and think tanks with data collected...

     (2010): 132/149

Politics and governance

  • Democracy Index
    Democracy Index
    The Democracy Index is an index compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit that claims to measure the state of democracy in 167 countries, of which 166 are sovereign states and 165 are UN member states...

     (2008): 163/167
  • Failed States Index: 16/37
  • Reporters Without Borders
    Reporters Without Borders
    Reporters Without Borders is a France-based international non-governmental organization that advocates freedom of the press. It was founded in 1985, by Robert Ménard, Rony Brauman and the journalist Jean-Claude Guillebaud. Jean-François Julliard has served as Secretary General since 2008...

     Press Freedom Index
    Press Freedom Index
    The Press Freedom Index is an annual ranking of countries compiled and published by Reporters Without Borders based upon the organization's assessment of their press freedom records. Small countries, such as Andorra, are excluded from this report...

     (2009): 171/175
  • Global Press Freedom Rankings
    Freedom of the press
    Freedom of the press or freedom of the media is the freedom of communication and expression through vehicles including various electronic media and published materials...

     (2009): 193/195 (39/40 in Asia-Pacific)
  • Corruption Perceptions Index
    Corruption Perceptions Index
    Since 1995, Transparency International publishes the Corruption Perceptions Index annually ranking countries "by their perceived levels of corruption, as determined by expert assessments and opinion surveys." The CPI generally defines corruption as "the misuse of public power for private...

     (2009): 178/180
  • Composite Index of National Capability
    Composite Index of National Capability
    The Composite Index of National Capability is a statistical measure of national power created by J. David Singer for the Correlates of War project in 1963. It uses an average of percentages of world totals in six different components. The components represent demographic, economic, and military...

     (2007): 30/193

Society

  • Caux Round Table
    Caux Round Table
    The Caux Round Table is an international organization of senior business executives aiming to promote ethical business practice. It was founded in 1986 by Frits Philips, president of Philips, and Olivier Giscard d'Estaing, along with Ryuzaburo Kaku, president of Canon...

     Social Achievement Capital 2009: 166/199)
  • Education Index
    Education Index
    This article contains information based on the pre-2010 Human Development Reports. The HDI and its education component have changed in 2010.The United Nations publishes a Human Development Index every year, which consists of the Education index, GDP Index and Life Expectancy Index...

    : 120/179
  • Education expenditures: 178/182
  • World Giving Index
    World Giving Index
    The World Giving Index was compiled by the Charities Aid Foundation, using data gathered by Gallup, and ranks 153 countries in the World according to how charitable their populations are. The Charities Aid Foundation claims that WGI is the largest study ever carried out into charitable behaviour...

     (2010): 22/153
  • Population of Buddhists
    Buddhism by country
    Obtaining exact numbers of practicing Buddhists can be difficult and may be reliant on the definition used. Adherents of Eastern religions such as Buddhism with local Animism, Chinese folk religion, Confucianism, Shinto, and Taoism often have beliefs composed of a mix of religious ideas...

    : 5th in the world
  • Proportion of Buddhists
    Buddhism by country
    Obtaining exact numbers of practicing Buddhists can be difficult and may be reliant on the definition used. Adherents of Eastern religions such as Buddhism with local Animism, Chinese folk religion, Confucianism, Shinto, and Taoism often have beliefs composed of a mix of religious ideas...

    : 3rd in the world
  • Human Development Index (2007): 138/182
  • Nonlinear quality of life index (2007): 127/171
  • Satisfaction with Life Index
    Satisfaction with Life Index
    The Satisfaction with Life Index was created by Adrian G. White, an Analytic Social Psychologist at the University of Leicester, using data from a metastudy. It is an attempt to show life satisfaction in different nations....

     (2006): 130/178

Technology

  • Brown University
    Brown University
    Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...

     Taubman Center for Public Policy e-Governance (2006): 119/198
  • Number of mobile phones in use: 163/222
  • Number of Internet users: 148/195
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