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international rankings This is a list of international rankings. By category Agriculture *List of largest producing countries of agricultural commodities *List of countries by apple production * List of countries by apricot production * List of countries by artichoke p ...

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor ...

Communications

*Singapore has the world's fastest average peak Internet speed (Akamai, December, 2015). * Singapore ranked 2nd out of 144 countries in the Global Information Technology Report 2014 by the

World Economic Forum The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non-governmental and lobbying organisation based in Cologny, canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded on 24 January 1971 by German engineer and economist Klaus Schwab. The foundation, ...

Demographics

CIA The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ), known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gathering, processing, ...

World Factbook ''The World Factbook'', also known as the ''CIA World Factbook'', is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world. The official print version is available ...

Total fertility rate The total fertility rate (TFR) of a population is the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if: # she were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through her lifetime # she were t ...

2014 estimate, ranked 224 out of 224 countries (0.80) *

Population density Population density (in agriculture: Stock (disambiguation), standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geographical ...

ranked 3 out of 242 countries *

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmoniz ...

Population Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a ...

ranked 114 out of 233 countries *United Nations: World Population Policies 2005 number of immigrants, ranked 22 out of 192 countries *International Organization for Migration: 7th most cosmopolitan nation.

Economy

*Singapore is ranked first worldwide for the ease of doing business by the World Bank for 2012, consecutively for 7 years. *Singapore is ranked the #1 most competitive country in the world. *Singapore is the 14th most expensive city in the world to spend a night in. *

The Economist ''The Economist'' is a British weekly newspaper printed in demitab format and published digitally. It focuses on current affairs, international business, politics, technology, and culture. Based in London, the newspaper is owned by The Eco ...

Where-to-be-born Index The Economist Intelligence Unit’s where-to-be-born index (previously called the quality-of-life index, abbreviated QLI) attempts to measure which country will provide the best opportunities for a healthy, safe and prosperous life in the years ah ...

2013, ranked 6 out of 111 countries * , Singapore's

external debt A country's gross external debt (or foreign debt) is the liabilities that are owed to nonresidents by residents. The debtors can be governments, corporations or citizens. External debt may be denominated in domestic or foreign currency. It inclu ...

ranked 15 out of 202 countries. *

Foreign exchange reserves Foreign exchange reserves (also called forex reserves or FX reserves) are cash and other reserve assets such as gold held by a central bank or other monetary authority that are primarily available to balance payments of the country, influence ...

ranked 10 out of 121 countries *

Nominal GDP Gross domestic product (GDP) is a money, monetary Measurement in economics, measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and sold (not resold) in a specific time period by countries. Due to its complex and subjec ...

— ** IMF: ranked 36 out of 188 countries (2014) **

World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. The World Bank is the collective name for the Inte ...

: ranked 36 out of 189 countries (2014) * Nominal GDP growth rate 2014 estimate: ranked 99 out of 198 countries *

Nominal GDP per capita The figures presented here do not take into account differences in the cost of living in different countries, and the results vary greatly from one year to another based on fluctuations in the exchange rates of the country's currency. Such fluc ...

— ** IMF: ranked 6 out of 186 countries (2015) * GDP (PPP) per capita — ** IMF: ranked 3 out of 187 countries (2014) **

: ranked 3 out of 185 countries (2014) *

Human Development Index The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistic composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, wh ...

2014, ranked 9 out of 187 countries *

The Wall Street Journal ''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...

: Index of Economic Freedom 2021,

ranked A ranking is a relationship between a set of items such that, for any two items, the first is either "ranked higher than", "ranked lower than" or "ranked equal to" the second. In mathematics, this is known as a weak order or total preorder of ...

1 out of 178 countries *World Economic Forum: Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index 2013, ranked 10 out of 140 countries *

World Tourism Organization The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) is the United Nations specialized agency entrusted with the promotion of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism. Its headquarters are in Madrid, Spain. UNWTO is the leading internati ...

World Tourism rankings The World Tourism rankings are compiled by the United Nations World Tourism Organization as part of their ''World Tourism Barometer'' publication, which is released up to six times per year. In the publication, destinations are ranked by the num ...

, ranked 29 out of all countries

Education

*Ranked 1 in the 2015

OECD The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; french: Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, ''OCDE'') is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate e ...

global education report

Energy

*CIA World Factbook: refined petroleum consumption 2015, ranked 18 out of 215 countries *CIA World Factbook:

oil consumption Peak oil is the hypothetical point in time when the maximum rate of global oil production is reached, after which it is argued that production will begin an irreversible decline. It is related to the distinct concept of oil depletion; while ...

2012, ranked 78 out of 211 countries

Environment

: water resources (2011 figures), ranked 160 out of 172 countries *

New Economics Foundation The New Economics Foundation (NEF) is a British think-tank that promotes "social, economic and environmental justice". NEF was founded in 1986 by the leaders of The Other Economic Summit (TOES) with the aim of working for a "new model of wealth ...

Happy Planet Index The Happy Planet Index (HPI) is an index of human well-being and environmental impact that was introduced by the New Economics Foundation in 2006. Each country's HPI value is a function of its average subjective life satisfaction, life expectan ...

2012, ranked 90 out of 151 countries *

US Department of Energy The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government that oversees U.S. national energy policy and manages the research and development of nuclear power and nuclear weapons in the United States. ...

: CO₂ emissions per capita 2008, ranked 58 out of 214 countries *

Save The Children The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, is an international non-governmental organization established in the United Kingdom in 1919 to improve the lives of children through better education, health care, and economic ...

: End of Childhood report 2018, ranked 1 out of 175 countries

Geography

: Total area ranked 190 out of 249 countries and oceans

Labour

* Singapore is ranked 59 out of 142 countries on the

Global Gender Gap Report.

Military

List of countries by Global Militarization Index This list of countries by Global Militarization Index is based on the 2017 Global Militarization Index of the Bonn International Center for Conversion.__TOC__ Global Militarization Index The Global Militarization Index (GMI) depicts the relativ ...

: ranked 2 out of 152 countries

Politics and law

*In 2015, Singapore was ranked 9th in the world in the Rule of Law Index by the

World Justice Project The World Justice Project (WJP) is an international civil society organization with the stated mission of "working to advance the rule of law around the world". It produces the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index, a quantitative assessment ...

. *''The Economist'':

Democracy Index The ''Democracy Index'' is an index compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the research division of the Economist Group, a UK-based private company which publishes the weekly newspaper ''The Economist''. Akin to a Human Development I ...

2018, ranked 66 out of 167 countries * Reporters Without Borders: Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2017: ranked 151 out of 180 countries

Technology

* UN e-Government Readiness Index, Singapore ranks 3rd. * Singapore ranked 2nd out of 144 countries in the Global Information Technology Report 2014 by the

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Networked Readiness Index The Networked Readiness Index is an index published annually by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with INSEAD, as part of their annual ''Global Information Technology Report''. It aims to measure the degree of readiness of countries to expl ...

, Singapore ranks 1st out of 139 countries.

Transportation

Changi Airport Air Traffic Control (141922192)

Others

*Singapore is ranked third among Asian countries in 2014 on Gallup's Potential Net Migration Index. * Most expensive cities — **Economist Intelligence Unit: Cost of Living Survey 2014, ranked 1 out of 140 cities in the world **

Mercer Mercer may refer to: Business * Mercer (car), a defunct American automobile manufacturer (1909–1925) * Mercer (consulting firm), a large human resources consulting firm headquartered in New York City * Mercer (occupation), a merchant or trader, ...

: Worldwide Cost of Living Survey 2014, ranked 4 out of 211 cities; .

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