Top Five Countries By Category #1

It's plenty of time as is. There are so many categories that if you just start typing in random countries you'll get most of them.

Most of them yes but to get all needs something special, especially on the mobile version. I think we can have an extra minute.

And British Columbia in Canada :)

And Columbia, MO home of Mizzou.

And Columbia from the Rocky Horror Show.

In Finnish Colombia is Kolumbia so they have to come to punch us all :)

Don't do a quiz in Colombia

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Definately is definitely incorrect as well.

No it isn't.

You've already been told. Move on.

Why should we "trust" you?

In the world, Colombia is spelled with an O

In US states, colombia is spelled with a U

or read this comment

Or knows things about Suriname.

Or was just frantically trying to type every country in the world and started with South America.

I Just Know things about Suriname, it was the second one I typed after Papua New Guinea...

I was just trying to get low density countries and I remembered Guyana and Suriname from the lowest population density countries quiz.

Not really

id say its still looking better

It probably used to be.

I find it a bit disturbing that people always assume that having children ought to be a priority for everyone.

Also, on these lists that I'm referencing, the differences in infant mortality that separate out winners from losers is often just a percent or two. Sometimes a fraction of a percent. For example the "under 5" mortality rate in Finland is 2.3. Among the lowest in the world. (and Norway's is 2.6) However, in Estonia it is only 2.9. In the Czech Republic it's 3.4. In Greece it's only 4.6. It's a pretty small difference. And of course to anyone who has the presence of mind to not be actively reproducing themselves those numbers will affect their quality of life precisely nil.

Anyway the point was 1. Norway is damned expensive. 2. This negatively impacts my quality of life there far more than a 1% greater chance that the kids I will never have might die.

If you *were* going to spend time contributing to the overpopulation of the planet, yes, I could see how this would be something you'd want to consider. But... aren't you a grandmother? I'd think that this wouldn't be high on your list of priorities, either. And that was also part of the point, that these lists have a very narrow focus and don't apply to most people. If you are a young 20-something fertile couple, educated, well-to-do, actively part of the work force and looking to start a family, the common critieria on these lists applies somewhat. But... for single travelers? Retired grandmothers? Anti-natalists? People with seasonal affective disorder? Not so much. And... if you have a fixed income or no income the cost of living is such a huge factor but doesn't usually factor in these lists. Lower infant mortality rate doesn't matter so much if you are forced to live in effective poverty.

and, finally, yes, dating IS important. So sick of judgmental sex-negative people always saying such condescending things toward anyone who would prioritize this. As if it's frivolous or immoral. It makes an enormous difference in your quality of life if you can regularly find physical affection, whether people are comfortable admitting that this is something we are biologically hard-wired to need or not.

I need to make a highest KDI countries quiz.

Sex-negative? Me? Ha, ha, ha. I wasn't trying to get in your business - I don't care with whom or where you find your pleasure, and I know companionship is important. You said you "didn't give a flying rat's patoot" about infant mortality rates. That hit me hard. All I'm saying is that to me, lowering the number of parents who have to bury an infant is more important than improving the nightlife. Even one percent is important if it is your child who falls in that one percent. I stand guilty as charged for hoping everyone can find their perfect mate and have a chance for healthy children if that is what they want because that path has given me a very happy life, but I accept that is not what everyone wants from life. I'm far out of the dating scene so I don't know how hard it is to find someone these days, but I still stand by my original opinion on the importance of infant mortality rates. Issues of poverty and overpopulation, though they tie in, I think could be a separate discussion.

ander: virtually everyone alive on planet Earth today is deeply sex-negative. They can't really help it. It's embedded in every culture in the world. And part of that general commonplace sex-negativity is that most people have internalized the belief that it's somehow unseemly to place any value on this or, especially, to prioritize it over other things that are deemed more socially acceptable to view as important, or really, to prioritize it at all. Even for someone like me, who never wants to have children and so when I'm looking at places I personally might like to live... infant mortality rates would factor in exactly 0% because this will have no bearing on my own quality of life whatsoever. But still this is seen as somehow wrong by anyone who has taken society's lessons about sex to heart. And my sharing that I might feel differently because I'm not as detached from reality as everyone else gets me labeled a bad person. generally. Didn't mean you specifically.

and if this somehow still isn't clear... I'm not saying and never said or implied that lowering infant mortality rates isn't worthwhile or good or important. Just that there do exist people for whom this will not affect their quality of life and lists that include this data point as one of only 3 or 4 criteria for an authoritative list on "best places to live" or "highest quality of life countries" etc, as many such lists do, while simultaneously neglecting so many other things that would be just as or more important to a good chunk of the population, are at best myopic. Particularly when you consider that we're talking fractions of a percent with the mortality question between countries that are on or off such lists - something that is statistically very unlikely to affect you even if you are a young married couple planning to have kids, while other differences like climate could be incredibly substantial and affect virtually everyone.