According to data aggregated by the Global Equality Caucus and The International Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA), Conversion therapy is banned in several countries around the world, including Canada, Brazil, Ecuador, Spain, Germany, France, Malta and New Zealand.
Although most of Europe and North America condemns Russia because of its war in Ukraine, as far as politics goes, it is not a worldwide stance. Current analysis by the Economist Intelligence Unit has revealed that there is a slow growth in Russia’s support base in a few parts of the world. The number of countries leaning towards Russia has increased from 29 in 2022 to 35 in 2023. On the contrary, the number of countries either actively condemning Russia or West-leaning is still so far, the bigger group, but its figures have dropped from 131 to 122. The EIU says this fall is partly driven by the shift of a number of emerging economies into a more neutral position.
In a survey carried out by Statista Consumer Insights of 38 countries, only between 20 and 45 percent of respondents said that they considered environmental protection a major issue for their country. Respondents who belonged to Brazil were the most concerned about the environment, with those in Mexico, Peru and Colombia also rating environmental protection as more essential compared to most countries in the survey.
In comparison to buying new clothes, the second hand clothes market is still fairly small but, according to Statista’s Secondhand Apparel dossier, there has been growth in this business particularly in the regions of the United States and Europe.
Artificial intelligence has been a part of our everyday life for years in some shape or form, but the spectacular rise of ChatGPT and the resulting aggressive development pace of conversational and generative AI models is, for the first time ever, putting the core technology into the hands of the general public. Even though large language models currently in use are primarily able to guess the best-fitting next word in a sentence based on the corpus of content fed into them, CEOs, researchers and AI experts are now urging the industry to pump the brakes on training and developing models more capable than OpenAI's GPT-4. The latest large language model of the company is currently available in a limited capacity for ChatGPT Plus subscribers and will soon be integrated into Microsoft productivity and security products.
The reason behind setting up a limit of minimum wage is to
set a baseline income level for workers in a particular jurisdiction. Ideally the
amount is enough to cover basic needs like housing and food, but it is not
always guaranteed.
The data extracted from Picodi helps in analyzing how the
minimum wage differs around the world sand it includes values for 67 countries
as of January 2023.
According to the 2023 World Happiness Report released on
Monday, Finland once again leads the ranking of the world's happiest countries consecutively,
for the sixth year. Even though its score (7.80) is considerably higher than the
rest of the countries, a significant portion of the top ten roundup are also
Nordic, with Denmark in second place (7.59), Iceland in third (7.53), Sweden in
sixth (7.40) and Norway in seventh (7.32).
Graduates in STEM – acronym for fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics are in demand globally but often are in short supply. Many countries have tried to encourage their youth to enroll in STEM to facilitate important growth industries like medtech, digital services, mobility or computer sciences. However, countries have had varying success in the matter.
Air pollution is considered to be extreme environmental health hazard to humankind, becoming a reason for over six million deaths a year and an economic cost that is equal to over $8 trillion dollars. This analysis is according to the World Air Quality Report 2022 released on Tuesday by IQAir, a Swiss air quality technology company. The analysis revealed that out of a surveyed 131 countries, regions and territories, only 13 resulted in meeting World Health Organization air guidelines of annual PM2.5 concentrations at or below 5 μg/m3 in 2022, many of which were in Oceania.
According to the report Women, Business and the Law 2023, recently published by the World Bank, there are only 14 countries in the world which agree on full legal protections to women. Among them are Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain and Sweden, as well as Germany and the Netherlands are the nations offering full equal rights for men and women, at least from a legal perspective.
Russia has caused the most expensive internet blockage of
2022 by first controlling the access and then blocking it specifically to
social media sites and news outlets. This data is in accordance with tech
company Top 10 VPN. The service puts the economic cost at $21.6 billion in the
country between the attack of Ukraine in February and the end of the year.
Since the blockages are country-wide, the large number of people affected becomes
the reason of the high price tag.
Out of the world's 50 most violent cities, 38 are from Latin
America including 17 in Mexico. There is a release of findings on the homicide
rate in cities with populations over 300,000 around the world every year by The
Mexico Citizens Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice. The infographic
used here takes data from these findings and shows the world's top 10 most
violent cities. Mexican city Colima ranks at the first place and New Orleans in
the U.S. state of Louisiana ranks at eighth position. The capital of Venezuela,
Caracas, had ranked first in previous editions, but due to the situation in the
country, no current data is available. The majority of the violence in Latin
America can be attributed to drug trafficking, gang warfare and political
instability.
There are many ways through which one can obtain citizenship
of a country. Simplest ways are to be born in that country or being the
descendent of one of its citizens. Other ways to get a permit is through marriage,
adoption or naturalization - the latter of which is based on an application-related
executive decision. Before the outburst of the Ukraine war, additional
"citizenship by investment" (CBI) programs were also offered in the
three EU member states of Cyprus, Malta and Bulgaria. These are more commonly
referred to as "golden passports.” With investment of a certain amount of
money, it becomes possible to obtain citizenship without the bureaucratic
hurdles.
Travelling can be as simple as just booking flights, finding
a hotel, and, then simply flying, but it all depends on the passport you carry.
But for many people across the world, it is not that easy. A
number of passport holders need to get a travel/tourist visa before their
arrival. These visas normally require approval from the destination country’s
government that can take a few weeks or months.
For example, Japanese passport holders are able to visit 193
countries without pre-approval (nearly every country on Earth). Afghans, on the
other hand, can only visit 27 countries with the same level of ease.
The ranking shown here uses data from Henley & Partners,
which determines the number of countries to which a passport holder has
visa-free access.
When we talk about visa openness and easy travel for African
citizens, the most open countries in Africa to list are The Gambia, Benin, and
Seychelles. According to the 2022 Africa Visa Openness Report, the three countries
do not require a visa from citizens from any country on the continent. In contrast
to these countries are Egypt and Sudan, as they rank on the last spots of the
list and require a visa from citizens from all other countries.
Out of 54, 36 of African countries have improved or
maintained their visa openness score since 2016 making Intra-continental travel
an ease for African citizens. Partial appreciation is for the start of acceptance
of e-visas, growing from 9 countries offering the service in 2016 (when the
first report was published) to 24 nations, including South Africa and Morocco,
according to last years’ list.
The prime minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern announced
her resignation today for some personal reasons. The popular leader said that she
no more has the energy required to fulfil her duties as the prime minister. According
to a report by CNN, many citizens express shock and disbelief concerning
Ardern's decision.
The data acquired by the Council on Foreign Relations shows
that New Zealand is one such country which has had the most elected female
heads of state and/or government after 1946. Before Jacinda Ardern, Jenny
Shipley of the National Party led the country between 1997 and 1999, followed
by Helen Clark of the Labour between 1999 and 2008.
The amount spent on global investment in research and
development (R&D) has tripled to $2.4 trillion since 2000.
R&D spend is also casting a broader global net. The United
States made up nearly 70% of global R&D spending in 1960 and by 2020 this
figure had fallen to 30%. R&D plays an important role in a country’s
economic growth and innovation and impacts nearly every corner of the society
either in a direct or indirect manner. From public health and job creation to
industrial competitiveness and national security, R&D has a role to play.
Other key elements that play an important role in driving
progress and innovation, along with R&D include scientific research, technological
adoption, and venture capital activity, to name a few.
The infographic ranks the world’s most innovative economies
using data from the UN’s WIPO Global Innovation Index.
Many people around the world desire to move to the United States. For many people around the globe, living the American life is a dream and is worth permanent move. For this reason, hundreds of thousands of people apply for U.S. immigration visas every year.
The infographic uses annual data taken from the U.S.
Department of State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs to envision the countries
whose citizens are receiving the highest number of U.S. immigrant visas.
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