Education Rankings

Japan is ranked first with an educated population percentage of 99.97%. A few rankings lower than
Japan is Sri Lanka who has a percentage of 96.17%, followed by Kuwait at 95.36%, then finally in 47th
place comes the United States of America at 95.33%.

There is what may appear a small gap between Kuwait and America of .03%; however, it is a little percentage that will suffer from lack of an education that would unlock incredible potential that could push development to a whole new level. These disappointing rankings show Americans how urgent it is to put more of an emphasis of budget on education and maybe a little less on military funding.

Studies groups that classify the level of freedom in a country rank them on subcategories like access to contraceptives, religious freedom, corruption rates, marriage age, and percentage of people who report being unable to reach their dreams. The highest freedom ranking is in Finland with a whopping percentage of 91.54%, which is way less than the top education ranking which exemplifies the lesser push governments have towards freedom and rights than education.

Continuing down the list, one can find Germany at 84.85% and in 15th place. Then finally, we get to the 16th ranking which enlists the US at a percentage of 82.64%. Imagine that. Americans, who brag excessively about the ample amount of freedom that can be found in the US, is 20% less free than they are presumed to have.

One of the other factors calculated into the formula of coming up with the percentages of freedom  is crime rates against minorities per 1000 people. If anyone has seen the news within the past 3 months, the hate crimes towards minorities in the US has gone up due to neglect for other cultures and stereotypes.

Because of these past few months, it is not  a surprise that America comes in 40th with 4.5 crimes per 1000 people. To some these statistics may look not all that bad, but when put into perspective, they appear a lot worse.

Think about it in terms of a medium sized high school with roughly 3000 students. This means if the percentage of students that were minorities was the same as the US population in 2012, only 1,500 students would qualify as a minority. Then from that pool of people, approximately 14 people will be victims of hate crimes which could include shootings, false accusations, or illegal stereotyping. That number of people that will be affected is fourteen times too high for the 21st century.