Sentence examples for ranking countries from inspiring English sources

What if we actually started ranking countries in measures such as wellbeing or happiness?

And it came in dead last in a new analysis ranking countries by their environmental trajectory.

For the first time, Unctad introduces a matrix ranking countries on how well their FDI inflows contribute to development.

On March 31st HSBC, a big bank, published a report ranking countries by how green their economic-stimulus packages were.

When ranking countries by the sheer number of people living without access to safe water, India comes out worst – 75.8 million people have no access to safe water, followed by China, Nigeria and Ethiopia.

Some recent data suggest it is hard to deliver.The OECD's latest "Education at a Glance" report compares how well rich countries are faring in spreading educational opportunity, by ranking countries according to the proportion of 25- to 64-year-olds who are better educated than their parents.

These were mainly from the top-ranking countries ranked by the total number of articles produced during the past 12 years.

By 2012 Britain remained among the average, middle-ranking countries, in 23rd place for reading, 28th for maths and slipping in science to 21st.If class sizes compare favourably with other countries and teachers are relatively well paid, something else must be amiss.

The UK remains stuck among the average, middle-ranking countries, in 26th place for maths and 23rd for reading, broadly similar to three years ago.

The UK has made little progress and remains among the average, middle-ranking countries, in 26th place for maths and 23rd for reading, broadly similar to three years ago.

Using the ISI database, we analyzed the total number of citations and the average citation rate from China and other top-ranking countries.