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Denmark leads this board.

Denmark

0.98

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Ireland

0.97

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0.97

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Rank	Country	Value	Percentile
#1	Denmark	0.98	100%
#2	Ireland	0.97	99%
#3	Belgium	0.969	99%
#4	Estonia	0.969	98%
#5	Switzerland	0.967	98%
#6	France	0.959	97%
#7	Luxembourg	0.957	97%
#8	Norway	0.953	96%
#9	Czechia	0.947	95%
#10	Finland	0.946	95%
#11	Sweden	0.946	94%
#12	Canada	0.933	94%
#13	South Korea	0.933	93%
#14	Latvia	0.932	93%
#15	Uruguay	0.931	92%
#16	New Zealand	0.927	91%
#17	Chile	0.926	91%
#18	Jamaica	0.919	90%
#19	Austria	0.918	90%
#20	Lithuania	0.917	89%
#21	Poland	0.917	89%
#22	Australia	0.915	88%
#23	Costa Rica	0.915	87%
#24	Germany	0.914	87%
#25	Barbados	0.911	86%
#26	Brazil	0.91	86%
#27	Netherlands	0.91	85%
#28	Dominican Republic	0.901	85%
#29	Kenya	0.9	84%
#30	Portugal	0.899	83%
#31	Ghana	0.896	83%
#32	Suriname	0.891	82%
#33	Trinidad and Tobago	0.888	82%
#34	Mauritius	0.887	81%
#35	Seychelles	0.874	81%
#36	Sri Lanka	0.871	80%
#37	Honduras	0.861	79%
#38	Namibia	0.859	79%
#39	Cabo Verde	0.857	78%
#40	Montenegro	0.853	78%
#41	Nigeria	0.849	77%
#42	Vanuatu	0.848	77%
#43	Japan	0.847	76%
#44	Iceland	0.846	75%
#45	Spain	0.843	75%
#46	Solomon Islands	0.84	74%
#47	Guatemala	0.839	74%
#48	Papua New Guinea	0.839	73%
#49	Timor-Leste	0.838	73%
#50	Taiwan	0.838	72%
#51	South Africa	0.837	71%
#52	Liberia	0.836	71%
#53	United Kingdom	0.833	70%
#54	Malta	0.829	70%
#55	Sierra Leone	0.823	69%
#56	Israel	0.822	69%
#57	Senegal	0.82	68%
#58	Gambia	0.814	67%
#59	Nepal	0.813	67%
#60	Cyprus	0.812	66%
#61	Panama	0.812	66%
#62	Colombia	0.81	65%
#63	Greece	0.81	65%
#64	Haiti	0.799	64%
#65	Botswana	0.798	63%
#66	Sao Tome and Principe	0.793	63%
#67	Zambia	0.778	62%
#68	Romania	0.777	62%
#69	Guyana	0.771	61%
#70	Mongolia	0.771	61%
#71	Slovakia	0.765	60%
#72	Peru	0.763	59%
#73	Italy	0.756	59%
#74	Niger	0.756	58%
#75	Bulgaria	0.754	58%
#76	Malawi	0.754	57%
#77	Paraguay	0.751	57%
#78	Gabon	0.748	56%
#79	Lebanon	0.744	55%
#80	Croatia	0.743	55%
#81	Argentina	0.736	54%
#82	Armenia	0.732	54%
#83	United States	0.729	53%
#84	Lesotho	0.728	53%
#85	Fiji	0.724	52%
#86	Ecuador	0.706	51%
#87	Maldives	0.695	51%
#88	Slovenia	0.691	50%
#89	Indonesia	0.688	50%
#90	Georgia	0.687	49%
#91	Tunisia	0.687	49%
#92	Bhutan	0.682	48%
#93	Côte d'Ivoire	0.681	47%
#94	Bolivia	0.68	47%
#95	Benin	0.676	46%
#96	Philippines	0.676	46%
#97	Albania	0.673	45%
#98	North Macedonia	0.664	45%
#99	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.653	44%
#100	Moldova	0.652	43%
#101	Madagascar	0.635	43%
#102	Mauritania	0.628	42%
#103	Mexico	0.619	42%
#104	Somalia	0.619	41%
#105	Central African Republic	0.613	41%
#106	Congo, Democratic Republic	0.599	40%
#107	Thailand	0.587	39%
#108	Malaysia	0.586	39%
#109	Morocco	0.579	38%
#110	Togo	0.579	38%
#111	Iraq	0.571	37%
#112	Guinea	0.56	37%
#113	Pakistan	0.559	36%
#114	Jordan	0.556	35%
#115	Guinea-Bissau	0.552	35%
#116	Tanzania	0.552	34%
#117	Libya	0.536	34%
#118	Cameroon	0.532	33%
#119	Kuwait	0.532	33%
#120	Bangladesh	0.527	32%
#121	Mozambique	0.518	31%
#122	Comoros	0.498	31%
#123	Angola	0.497	30%
#124	Hungary	0.493	30%
#125	Mali	0.49	29%
#126	Kyrgyzstan	0.469	29%
#127	India	0.458	28%
#128	Uganda	0.432	27%
#129	Chad	0.427	27%
#130	Serbia	0.424	26%
#131	Ukraine	0.418	26%
#132	Zimbabwe	0.414	25%
#133	Singapore	0.4	25%
#134	Congo	0.373	24%
#135	Algeria	0.367	23%
#136	Syria	0.358	23%
#137	El Salvador	0.356	22%
#138	Palestine	0.353	22%
#139	Djibouti	0.336	21%
#140	Kazakhstan	0.329	21%
#141	Sudan	0.289	20%
#142	Ethiopia	0.285	19%
#143	Burkina Faso	0.261	19%
#144	Uzbekistan	0.234	18%
#145	Hong Kong	0.227	18%
#146	Yemen	0.219	17%
#147	Egypt	0.179	17%
#148	Turkey	0.179	16%
#149	Bahrain	0.172	15%
#150	Rwanda	0.17	15%
#151	Iran	0.166	14%
#152	Burundi	0.164	14%
#153	South Sudan	0.155	13%
#154	Cambodia	0.153	13%
#155	Oman	0.151	12%
#156	Venezuela	0.148	11%
#157	Eswatini	0.113	11%
#158	Equatorial Guinea	0.112	10%
#159	Vietnam	0.102	10%
#160	Azerbaijan	0.092	9%
#161	Saudi Arabia	0.092	9%
#162	Russia	0.08	8%
#163	Cuba	0.074	7%
#164	United Arab Emirates	0.063	7%
#165	Qatar	0.055	6%
#166	China	0.045	6%
#167	Tajikistan	0.043	5%
#168	Turkmenistan	0.038	5%
#169	Laos	0.032	4%
#170	Myanmar	0.026	3%
#171	Belarus	0.025	3%
#172	Eritrea	0.024	2%
#173	Afghanistan	0.022	2%
#174	Nicaragua	0.018	1%
#175	North Korea	0.013	1%