Most Interesting Country (Statistically) Survey

Final Standings

Metrics

NUMBER	MONTH	DESCRIPTION
1	January	Total methane emissions	Results
2	January	Total petrol consumption	Results
3	February	Price of milk / income	Results
4	February	Tourists / population	Results
5	March	Urban growth rate	Results
6	March	Price of rice / income	Results
7	April	Price of wine	Results
8	April	Length of coastline	Results
9	May	Price of petrol / income	Results
10	May	Total workforce	Results
11	June	GDP growth rate	Results
12	June	Largest settlement % population	Results
13	July	Prisoners % population	Results
14	July	Living in slums % population	Results
15	August	Linguistic diversity index	Results
16	August	Murders	Results
17	September	Electricity production / consumption	Results
18	September	Birth rate	Results
19	October	Females % parliament	Results
20	October	Rents / income	Results
21	November	CO2 emissions per capita	Results
22	November	Elderly dependency ratio	Results
23	December	Military spending % GDP	Results
24	December	Male/female literacy rate comparison	Results

Most Consistent Scorers

The countries that have most consistently scored points. Shown here is the total number of metrics each country has scored points within.

COUNTRY	METRICS
Burundi	10
Cuba	8
Qatar	8
United Arab Emirates	8
Kuwait	7
United States	7
Andorra	6
Brunei	6
China	6
Democratic Republic of the Congo	6
India	6
Japan	6
Monaco	6
Oman	6
Papua New Guinea	6
Samoa	6
Saudi Arabia	6
Seychelles	6

Dullest countries

The dullest, or most mediocre, countries based on the least total points scored and the Average Distance from the Median Position (ADMP) for all metrics.

POS'N	+/-	COUNTRY	POINTS	+/-	ADMP
187	3	Egypt	0	+1.001	29.979
188	1	Ecuador	0	-0.809	29.604
189		Dominican Republic	0	+0.117	29.312
190	2	Albania	0	-1.251	28.771
191		Kazakhstan	0	+0.157	28.543
192		Peru	0	+0.427	27.188
193	2	Morocco	0	+2.023	26.479
194	2	Tunisia	0	+1.704	25.812
195	2	Kyrgyzstan	0	-0.331	25.283
196	2	Fiji	0	+0.307	24.938

How it works

Points are assigned to countries for being interesting. The country with the most points at the end of the year will be considered the most interesting country - statistically speaking.

Points will be assigned to countries based on metrics. Metrics are standard measures of the country such as population, size, growth rate etc.

A sample of 24 metrics will be chosen at random from a selection of interesting candidate metrics. 2 metrics will be scored each calendar month.

Countries will be assigned points on how interesting they are within each selected metric.

20 points will be assigned for the highest and lowest country within a selected metric.

15, 12, 9, 7, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 points will then be assigned respectively for the second to tenth highest and lowest.

In the event of a tie where metric values are identical, all tied countries will score the number of points of the lowest placed country in that range of countries.

Special considerations are made when the metric value is uncertain or there is not sufficient information about the metric for all countries involved.

Full details of the survey proposal can be seen here.