World Indices

There are lots of global indices measuring all sorts of stuff. Local media has been smugly reporting the Global Peace Index and I see a number of people have been noting it on their blogs. These are the top 5 countries according to that index.

Global Peace Index
1 New Zealand
2 Iceland
3 Japan
4 Austria
5 Norway

But it did get me wondering about our place in the world, so a bit of wikipedia mining turned up a bunch of other indices. Not even close to a full set, just a few that caught my eye.

( behind cut because it is longish )