Non-Competitive Elections [227]

Highlighted areas indicate those countries that are democratic in name only. Dictatorships, Communist states, and military states either ban popular elections, disregard their results, or hand-pick the candidates. Floundering or corrupt representative democracies often do no better at generating competitive elections.

Overseas Chinese Network [271]

Highlighted are countries that have a population of more than 500,000 ethnic Chinese. Outlined countries have more than 60,000 Chinese. The total number of overseas Chinese is estimated to be above 50 million.

Obesity [275]

Countries where 3% or more of preschool age children are overweight.

“Bad Carma” [211]

Traveling the roads of countries with a red cross is dangerous. The larger the cross, the higher the chance to continue any given trip in an ambulance and end up in a hospital or graveyard.