I'm doing a report and need to find a place to compare stats on different country. Mostly things like education, health [and health care], average income, divorce rate, etc.
Also need a way to compare 'freedoms'... like Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Assemble/protest, etc.
and then basic information on their political system: Democrat, Republic, Dictator, etc.
I'm mostly concerned with "Western" Countries (USA, Europe, etc).
I found this info in the wiki (which is fine, I don't need 'hard' references); but can't find it anymore
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The UN's World Health program site might be good too.
But I download that book... it'll be good once I get a general idea of "rankings" between various categories.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Global_economic_classifications
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporters_Without_Borders
http://www.nationmaster.com/statistics
it even has a few freedom measurements
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
Also look up 'Professor Wilkinson". He gave a really interesting stat-heavy talk a few days ago here.