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The most bicycle friendly city in the world:
Groningen
,
Netherlands
By comparing cities along the criterion of average number of bicycle
trips made daily, one city reigns supreme:
Groningen
in the
Netherlands
. In
Groningen about 50 percent of the population
commute via bike daily, making it the city with the greatest proportion of
cyclists on the planet.
World's
most energy efficient city:
Reykjavik
,
Iceland
All of the energy and heat used by the citizens of
Reykjavik
Iceland
come from geothermal plants
and renewable hydropower, making it
the most sustainable and energy efficient city in the On their mission to be
completely free of fossil fuels by 2050, the city has also been replacing
traditional buses with hydrogen-fueled buses, from which the only emissions are
water.
Most
cat friendly country: United States
With a pet cat population of 76.43 million feline friends, the
United States dominates the world stage for most cat friendly country in the
world.
Most dog friendly country: United States
Similarly,
America
more than doubles the amount of pet dogs any other country has, with a dog population of 61.1
million.
Most sexually satisfied country: Switzerland
Switzerland
might just be the most progressive and least sexually repressed country in
the world. Between liberal views on pornography
and prostitution, and sex ed that starts in Kindergarten, over a fifth of the
population consider their sex-lives "excellent." They even recently
opened a very successful array of tax-funded drive-in sex boxes in
Zurich
. Bonus, despite all this,
Switzerland also holds
the title as one of the lowest teen birth rates in the world.
Least sexually satisfied country: Japan
With its extreme conservatism,
Japan
is the country with the least sexual satisfaction, as only 15% of individuals reported
having a fulfilling sex life. Furthermore, over 45% of Japanese women report
being either uninterested in, or despising, sexual contact
Most
emotional country in the world: Philippines
Polling citizens in 150 countries
over the years of 2009-2011, researchers found that the people of the
Philippines
were the most likely to respond emotionally to simple questions about
their day.
Least
emotional country in the world: Singapore
That same study revealed that
Singaporeans experience the least emotion on the day-to-day. Only 3 out of every
10 reported having any emotional reactions to basic scenarios or when describing
their days.
Country with the longest life expectancy in the world:
Monaco
According to the World Health
Organization's study from 2013,
Monaco
tops the charts for longest living
citizens, with an average life expectancy of 87.2 years. Men in
Monaco
live an average
85.3 years and women live to an average of 89 years.
Country with the shortest life expectancy:
Sierra Leone
On the other side of that coin, the population of
Sierra Leone
live to an average of 47 years. The men of
Sierra Leone
live to an average of 47 years old, whereas women live an average of 48
years.
Sexiest
country in the world: Brazil and Australia
There will always be a debate about which countries are home to the
mostattractive people, in part because who's to say what is objectively
attractive? Though the means are hardly scientific, a
recent poll found quite a disparity between which countries men believe are the
sexiest, and which countries women find the sexiest. For men,
Brazil
tops the charts for the most attractive people. For women, it's about the thunder down under in
Australia
.
Most stressed-out country in the world:
Nigeria
By looking at the dimensions of Homicide Rate, GDP per capita, Income inequality, Corruption, and
Unemployment, one thing is clear:
Nigeria
is hands-down the most stressed out country
in the world.
Least
stressed-out country in the world: Norway
Along the same dimensions,
Norway
was at the far-end of the other side of the spectrum and is deemed the least
stressed-out country in the world.
Country
with the highest average IQ: Hong Kong
There are a lot of factors that can affect an IQ score, ranging from national
and personal wealth to simply who makes the test.
As a result, these findings are highly controversial, but seem to suggest that
Hong Kong
is the country* with the highest IQ, at an average of 107 points. *Hong Kong is a
special administrative region of
China
meaning that it falls within the sovereignty of the
People's Republic of
China
, yet does not form part of Mainland
China
, and has it's own government.
Country
with the lowest average IQ: Equatorial Guinea
According to "IQ and the Wealth of Nations,"
Equatorial Guinea
caps the low End of the global IQ range, with a national
average of 59 points.
World's
most well-connected city (for internet):
Seoul
,
South Korea
Surprisingly, despite it's 618 million internet users spending an average
of 18.7 hours a week surfing the net,
China
did not even make the top 10. Along the dimensions of average connection speed,
availability (weighted towards free access), openness to innovation, support of
public data, and privacy/security,
Seoul
in
South Korea
is the champion of
internet-connectedness. With 10,000 government supported free Wi-Fi spots
dotting the city, and an internet speed that goes unchallenged globally,
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