RankinWorld
Compare countries in hundreds of indicators, map included
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Compare countries in hundreds of indicators, map included
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RankinWorld is an interactive country comparison tool. Compare countries worldwide across huge list of indicators using reliable sources like The World Bank. Select a pair of countries and see how exactly they compare against each other in every indicator you're interested in, or use the map tool for a view that can either show the best and worst countries in a single indicator or calculate the countries' average performances across any bigger subset to see which one is actually "better".
Hi all! This is my first project that actually made it to the public version (albeit still far from perfect technically and I'd like to expand it feature-wise even more, but anyway), so feel free to give the feedback and have fun!
I've decided to create this project because of two different things that more or less coincide with the two main parts of the website. I have been working with data in different ways for most of my adult life while constantly getting curious about random things, including variations of "how's life in [country_x]", probably more than usual due to my background in economics and pretty, uh, dynamic geolocation.
While googling things like that, I came to realize there seems to be no website that would satisfy me in everything - most websites either have a fixed small amount of statistics, take their numbers from unknown places, are just not great to use, or (usually) all of that. And while, for example, the World Bank (probably the best data source for such things) has its own website for analyzing its quite extensive data, it is unfortunately pretty inconvenient for random curiosities and is more of a tool for academic researchers. However, it also allows free commercial use of its datasets. So, I've realized that there is an opportunity and the overall idea was born where I take World Bank data and make it very convenient to explore specifically for country comparisons (though it's possible to check specific countries too, it's just not the focus), which is what I did. In the future I also want to use more sources of the same level, but for now it uses only World Bank (which also gets rid of possible inconsistencies to solve though).
The second idea I fulfilled was what actually started my work, because this was not even just about convenience. I have some obsession with combinatorics and I always wanted to get an answer to the question "yeah, but which country is better IN GENERAL". I do think it's actually impossible to objectively answer this, but I've decided to at least approach this question closer than coloring the world map based on just one or two indicators, which seemingly nobody does at all.
My tool allows to select any subset of indicators and calculates average rank per country, which it then converts into scores from 0 to 100, where top-1 in all selected indicators is 100 and last is 0, taking additional measures to account for missing data. As such, it ignores the amplitude of "by how much it's better", but it produces the more all-rounded view where the winning country is the one without drastically bad performances in anything, which is arguably close to how we perceive it. The same indicator selection customizability makes it so one can replicate their own judgement on what sides of living in a country they deem important enough to add to the comparison. I've also excluded indicators that can't be ranked top to bottom or vice versa and make sense, like inflation rate (both very high and very low inflation are bad for economy actually). I do want to add such indicators later in some other way, but it's a plan for the future.
So that's it, let me know what you think, thanks for checking it out!