Country Statistics at a Glance

Country rankings of the type presented below cannot pretend to be definitive; instead they aspire only to provide the reader with an approximation of the high and low ends on a particular scale. Country data vary enormously depending on the sources, and the absence of reliable data on some countries requires their omission, which further skews the results.

LARGEST COUNTRIES¹ (in sq mi):* 2007
1.	Russia	6,592,735
2.	Canada	3,855,081
3.	United States	3,718,691
4.	China	3,705,386
5.	Brazil	3,286,470
6.	Australia	2,967,893
7.	India	1,269,338
8.	Argentina	1,068,296
9.	Kazakhstan	1,049,150
10.	Sudan	967,493

SMALLEST COUNTRIES¹ (in sq mi):* 2007
1.	Vatican City	0.17
2.	Monaco	0.75
3.	Nauru	8.11
4.	Tuvalu	10.04
5.	San Marino	23.63
6.	Liechtenstein	61.78
7.	Saint Kitts and Nevis	100.77
8.	Maldives	115.83
9.	Malta	122.01
10.	Grenada	132.82

HIGHEST POPULATION DENSITY² (per sq mi): 2007†
1.	Monaco	42,143
2.	Singapore	18,645
3.	Malta	3,229
4.	Maldives	3,099
5.	Bahrain	2,923
6.	Bangladesh	2,850
7.	Taiwan	1,849
8.	Mauritius	1,738
9.	Barbados	1,686
10.	Nauru	1,639

LOWEST POPULATION DENSITY² (per sq mi): 2007†
1.	Western Sahara	2.7
2.	Mongolia	4.7
3.	Namibia	6.4
4.	Australia	6.9
5.	Suriname	7.0
6.	Botswana	7.3
7.	Iceland	7.7
8.	Mauritania	8.0
9.	Libya	8.7
10.	Canada	9.3

HIGHEST GDP PER CAPITA¹ (PPP in U.S. dollars): 2007
1.	Luxembourg	$71,400
2.	Equatorial Guinea	50,200
3.	United Arab Emirates	49,700
4.	Norway	46,300
5.	Ireland	44,500
6.	United States	43,800
7.	Andorra	38,800
8.	Iceland	38,000
8.	Denmark	37,100
9.	Canada	35,700
10.	Austria	34,700

LOWEST GDP PER CAPITA¹ (PPP in U.S. dollars): 2007
1.	Comoros	$600
	Somalia	600
	Malawi	600
4.	Burundi	700
	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	700
6.	East Timor	$800
	Tanzania	800
	Afghanistan	800
	Madagascar	900
	Guinea-Bissau	900
	Sierra Leone	900

HIGHEST INFLATION:¹ 2007
1.	Zimbabwe	1,033.5%
2.	Iraq	53.2
3.	Guinea	30.0
4.	San Tome and Principe	23.1
5.	Yemen	20.8
6.	Burma	20.0
7.	Uzbekistan	19.8
8.	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	18.2
9.	Afghanistan	16.3
10.	Serbia	15.5

LOWEST INFLATION:¹ 2007
1.	Nauru	–3.6%
2.	Vanuatu	–1.6
3.	San Marino	–1.5
4.	Barbados	–0.5
5.	Seychelles	-0.4
6.	Dominica	–0.1
7.	Japan	0.2
8.	Niger	0.2
9.	Kiribati	0.5
10.	Antigua and Barbuda	0.6

HIGHEST INFANT MORTALITY RATE² (deaths per 1,000 births): 2007
1.	Angola	184.4
2.	Sierra Leone	158.3
3.	Afghanistan	157.4
4.	Liberia	149.7
5.	Niger	116.8
6.	Somalia	113.1
7.	Mozambique	109.9
8.	Mali	105.6
9.	Guinea-Bissau	103.5
10.	Chad	102.1

LOWEST INFANT MORTALITY RATE² (deaths per 1,000 births): 2007
1.	Singapore	2.3
2.	Sweden	2.8
3.	Japan	2.8
4.	Iceland	3.2
5.	France	3.4
6.	Finland	3.5
7.	Norway	3.6
8	Malta	3.8
9.	Czech Republic	3.9
10.	Andorra	4.0

HIGHEST LIFE EXPECTANCY² (in years): 2007
1.	Andorra	83.5
2.	Japan	82.0
3.	San Marino	81.8
	Singapore	81.8
5.	Sweden	80.6
	Australia	80.6
	Switzerland	80.6
8	France	80.5
9.	Iceland	80.4
10.	Canada	80.3

LOWEST LIFE EXPECTANCY² (in years): 2007
1.	Swaziland	32.2
2.	Angola	37.6
3.	Zambia	38.4
4.	Zimbabwe	39.5
5.	Lesotho	39.9
6.	Liberia	40.4
7.	Sierra Leone	40.6
8.	Mozambique	40.9
9.	South Africa	42.5
10.	Malawi	42.9

LOWEST LITERACY RATES²: 2005
1.	Burkina Faso	12.8%
2.	Niger	14.4
3.	Mali	19.0
4.	Chad	25.5
5.	Sierra Leone	29.6
6.	Benin	33.6
7.	Afghanistan	36.0
8.	Gambia	37.8
9.	Senegal	39.3
10.	Guinea-Bissau	39.6

NOTE: Only countries for which statistics were available in sources 1 and 2 figure in these lists. *Size refers to the total area of a country, which includes the land area plus bodies of water. †Population density calculated using population and land area. Sources: 1. The World Factbook, 2007. 2. U.S. Census Bureau, International Database.

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