15 Countries With The Smallest Proportions Of Female College Professors
Throughout much of Africa and the Middle East, finding a female college instructor is a rare sight indeed.
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12 Countries With The Highest Percentage Of Female High School Teachers
Opportunities for women abound in secondary education in former Soviet Republics and Western and Central Asia.
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Top 12 Countries For Coastline And Marine Conservation
Many countries have dedicated the majority of their marine, subtidal, and intertidal regions as protected areas.
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12 Countries With The Highest Payments Of External Long-Term Debt Service
External debt service is the total repayments of principal and interest actually made by one country's residents to nonresidents from abroad. India tops this list.
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20 Countries With The Best Acess To Nurses And Midwives
Nurse and midwife access is especially high across much of the European Union and other developed regions.
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12 Countries With The Best Access To Surgeons
In some wealthy countries, more than 1 in 1,000 people may be employed as specialist surgeons.
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15 Countries With The Worst Access To Surgeons
1 or fewer specialized surgical team members exist for every 100,000 people in Afghanistan and many developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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12 Countries With The Worst Access To Quality Shipping Ports
In this list, landlocked countries' access to other countries' ports are considered, in addition to coastal nations where ports of their own are inadequate.
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15 Countries With The Best Access To Quality Shipping Ports
Developed economies with navigable coastlines tend to have the best port infrastructures.
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12 Countries With The Lowest Rates Of Cell Phone Subscriptions
With cell phone subscriptions per person of 1 in 17 and 1 in 9, respectively, Eritrea and North Korea have the lowest mobile phone subscription rates.
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20 Countries Where Bribery In Business Is Common Practice
Public firms in each of these countries regularly report receiving bribe requests, with much of Asia and Africa and former Soviet states having particularly high incidence.
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20 Most Expensive Countries To Ship Exports From
On a standardized container basis, West and Central Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa experience the highest costs to export.
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10 Cheapest Countries To Ship Exports From
Southeast Asian, African, and island nations with quality ports reign supreme when it comes to low export costs.
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15 Countries Where It Takes The Longest To Prepare And Pay Taxes
In several South American and African nations, the tax-paying process takes residents hundreds of hours each year.
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12 Countries With The Shortest Tax Paying Processes
Relative to the rest of the world, tax season must feel like a breeze to those from wealthy nations of the Arabian Peninsula and elsewhere making this list.
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20 Countries Where It Takes The Least Time To Receive Imports
At a mere 4 days on average to complete imports, Singapore tops this list of developed countries.
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10 Countries With The Longest Wait Times For Imports
Importers in South Sudan and Uzbekistan on average must wait more than 100 days to be ready to receive goods from other countries.
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12 Countries With The Slowest Movements Of Exports
Security concerns and low access to ports and other infrastructure leave Afghani and Iraqi exporters lagging far behind global norms.
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15 Countries With The Worst Environmental Sustainability CPIA Ratings
Concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa, these countries fail to exhibit environmental sustainability in their policies.
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10 Countries With The Shortest Life Expectancies
Men and women in Sub-Saharan Africa live shorter lives than those from anywhere else on earth.
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