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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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Nurse and midwife access is especially high across much of the European Union and other developed regions.
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In some wealthy countries, more than 1 in 1,000 people may be employed as specialist surgeons.
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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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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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Developed economies with navigable coastlines tend to have the best port infrastructures.
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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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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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On a standardized container basis, West and Central Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa experience the highest costs to export.
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Southeast Asian, African, and island nations with quality ports reign supreme when it comes to low export costs.
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In several South American and African nations, the tax-paying process takes residents hundreds of hours each year.
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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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At a mere 4 days on average to complete imports, Singapore tops this list of developed countries.
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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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Security concerns and low access to ports and other infrastructure leave Afghani and Iraqi exporters lagging far behind global norms.
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Concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa, these countries fail to exhibit environmental sustainability in their policies.
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Men and women in Sub-Saharan Africa live shorter lives than those from anywhere else on earth.
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The U.S. and China combine to produce more than 800,000 scientific and technical journal articles a year.
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Six Chinese ports are among the 10 busiest in the world, with Shanghai ranking the highest among them all in terms of container handling traffic.
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Several countries have part-time rates in excess of 20%, with more than 50% of Dutch workers classified as part-time.
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