Life expectancy on average exceeds the regional and global averages for both genders.
Two-thirds of respondents believed that UK prices were higher than the global averages, and higher than other EU countries.
The rub is that climate models are very good at predicting the way greenhouse gas emissions will affect global averages.
When assessing where to focus sustainability efforts and defining success, it's important not to put too much emphasis into how performance compares to global averages.
About 2 to 3 percent of men in the region have sex with other men, consistent with global averages, the study found.
It only "seeks out countries where returns on groceries are significantly higher than global averages," explains Paul Foley, a former head of Aldi UK.
And will time moderate the disparities cloaked within global averages, in particular disparities of hunger and excess among regions and individuals?
Some parts of the world (Europe and North America in particular) have yielded much more data than others, so obtaining meaningful global averages is hard.
The challenge for climate scientists, and politicians seeking to drive climate policy, has often been linking changes in global averages to shifting weather patterns at home that may or may not appear to reflect the worldwide data.
Because the goals concentrate on global averages, China skews the statistics on earnings because its roaring economy has lifted millions out of poverty since 1990, the baseline year on which all the goals are set.
Dr Ramanathan has amassed a range of evidence that ABCs, the regional effects of which are far greater than global averages, have depressed rainfall in the Indian monsoon over the past decades.
