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Country name 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
Afghanistan 14 14 13 13 14
Albania 52 51 51 51 50
Algeria 12 12 12 12 12
American Samoa
Andorra
Angola 68 68 67 67 66
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina 42 42 43 43 44
Armenia 58 58 58 58 56
Aruba
Australia 54 54 55 55 55
Austria 48 48 48 49 50
Azerbaijan 57 57 57 58 58
Bahamas, The 66 66 66 67 67
Bahrain 33 34 35 36 35
Bangladesh 56 55 54 55 55
Barbados 63 63 63 64 63
Belarus 54 53 53 52 52
Belgium 41 43 44 42 43
Belize 39 39 40 41 42
Benin 62 63 64 65 66
Bermuda
Bhutan 50 52 54 56 58
Bolivia 60 60 60 60 60
Bosnia and Herzegovina 34 34 33 33 33
Botswana 69 69 70 70 70
Brazil 54 55 55 55 56
Brunei Darussalam 53 54 55 56 56
Bulgaria 49 49 48 47 46
Burkina Faso 77 77 77 77 77
Burundi 86 86 86 85 85
Cambodia 76 76 77 76 76
Cameroon 61 62 62 62 62
Canada 58 58 59 59 60
Cape Verde 45 46 46 46 47
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic 71 71 71 71 71
Chad 65 65 65 65 65
Chile 35 36 35 35 35
China 72 71 71 71 70
Colombia 44 46 49 51 54
Comoros 30 30 30 31 31
Congo, Dem. Rep. 70 70 71 71 71
Congo, Rep. 64 65 65 66 66
Costa Rica 39 39 37 42 42
Cote d'Ivoire 48 49 49 49 49
Croatia 45 45 45 45 45
Cuba 38 38 38 38 38
Curacao
Cyprus 49 49 50 52 53
Czech Republic 52 52 52 51 51
Denmark 60 60 60 60 60
Djibouti 31 31 31 32 32
Dominica
Dominican Republic 46 46 46 47 47
Ecuador 47 49 50 57 55
Egypt, Arab Rep. 19 20 20 20 19
El Salvador 45 45 45 45 44
Equatorial Guinea 80 80 80 80 80
Eritrea 72 73 75 75 76
Estonia 53 52 52 52 51
Ethiopia 72 72 73 74 75
Faeroe Islands
Fiji 39 39 39 39 39
Finland 55 56 57 57 57
France 48 48 48 48 48
French Polynesia 49 48 48 48 48
Gabon 55 55 55 55 55
Gambia, The 71 71 71 71 72
Georgia 58 58 55 58 55
Germany 49 49 49 50 50
Ghana 72 72 73 72 71
Greece 40 40 40 40 40
Greenland
Grenada
Guam 50 50 50 50 49
Guatemala 42 42 42 42 42
Guinea 63 63 63 63 63
Guinea-Bissau 63 63 63 64 65
Guyana 39 39 39 39 39
Haiti 57 57 57 57 57
Honduras 42 46 44 42 39
Hong Kong SAR, China 48 49 49 50 51
Hungary 40 41 41 41 41
Iceland 70 71 72 72 71
India 35 35 34 35 35
Indonesia 50 51 50 50 49
Iran, Islamic Rep. 12 13 14 15 16
Iraq 12 12 13 13 13
Ireland 44 46 47 48 49
Isle of Man
Israel 46 47 48 48 48
Italy 35 35 35 36 37
Jamaica 61 60 59 59 58
Japan 50 50 49 49 49
Jordan 12 12 13 12 13
Kazakhstan 64 64 65 65 65
Kenya 65 64 63 62 62
Kiribati
Korea, Dem. Rep. 74 74 74 74 73
Korea, Rep. 47 48 49 49 50
Kosovo
Kuwait 42 43 44 45 45
Kyrgyz Republic 57 57 56 56 55
Lao PDR 79 79 79 79 79
Latvia 51 50 49 50 52
Lebanon 19 19 19 20 20
Lesotho 68 69 68 66 65
Liberia 58 58 58 58 58
Libya 25 27 27 28 29
Liechtenstein
Lithuania 53 55 55 53 52
Luxembourg 38 40 42 41 43
Macao SAR, China 55 56 56 58 57
Macedonia, FYR 41 41 41 41 42
Madagascar 84 84 84 84 84
Malawi 76 77 77 78 78
Malaysia 42 43 45 45 44
Maldives 34 36 37 40 42
Mali 37 37 37 37 37
Malta 29 30 30 30 31
Marshall Islands
Mauritania 22 22 23 24 25
Mauritius 40 41 41 42 41
Mexico 39 39 39 38 39
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.
Moldova 57 56 55 55 54
Monaco
Mongolia 55 56 56 56 56
Montenegro
Morocco 30 30 29 25 25
Mozambique 87 88 88 88 88
Myanmar 74 74 74 74 74
Namibia 48 49 49 50 52
Nepal 82 82 82 82 82
Netherlands 51 52 53 54 55
New Caledonia 49 48 48 48 48
New Zealand 56 57 57 58 59
Nicaragua 36 37 38 39 40
Niger 35 37 38 40 39
Nigeria 44 44 45 46 46
Northern Mariana Islands
Norway 60 60 60 60 61
Oman 21 22 23 23 24
Pakistan 15 16 16 16 16
Palau
Panama 45 45 45 46 47
Papua New Guinea 70 70 71 71 71
Paraguay 48 50 51 52 53
Peru 58 61 58 62 60
Philippines 50 50 49 53 52
Poland 50 49 49 49 48
Portugal 52 52 53 54 54
Puerto Rico 35 36 35 36 37
Qatar 40 40 39 40 41
Romania 59 59 58 57 51
Russian Federation 50 55 55 54 55
Rwanda 86 86 86 86 86
Samoa 42 43 43 43 43
San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe 38 38 38 39 39
Saudi Arabia 16 17 16 16 16
Senegal 64 64 64 64 65
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone 67 67 67 67 66
Singapore 51 52 53 53 53
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
Slovak Republic 52 52 53 53 53
Slovenia 53 52 51 51 51
Solomon Islands 53 53 53 53 53
Somalia 36 36 37 37 37
South Africa 42 43 44 45 45
South Sudan
Spain 39 39 41 40 41
Sri Lanka 42 38 37 37 36
St. Kitts and Nevis
St. Lucia 61 62 62 63 64
St. Martin (French part)
St. Vincent and the Grenadines 49 50 50 51 52
Sudan 29 29 29 29 29
Suriname 35 36 36 37 37
Swaziland 43 43 43 43 43
Sweden 57 57 58 59 59
Switzerland 58 58 58 59 59
Syrian Arab Republic 22 21 20 20 19
Tajikistan 58 58 58 58 58
Tanzania 87 87 87 87 87
Thailand 66 64 65 65 65
Timor-Leste 39 39 38 39 39
Togo 74 75 76 77 78
Tonga 48 49 49 50 51
Trinidad and Tobago 48 48 47 48 48
Tunisia 24 24 24 24 24
Turkey 29 30 27 27 28
Turkmenistan 48 48 48 48 48
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
Uganda 81 81 81 81 81
Ukraine 53 52 52 51 52
United Arab Emirates 33 33 34 34 35
United Kingdom 53 54 54 54 54
United States 59 59 59 59 59
Uruguay 51 52 52 54 53
Uzbekistan 47 47 48 48 48
Vanuatu 72 71 70 69 68
Venezuela, RB 47 48 48 53 55
Vietnam 75 75 74 74 74
Virgin Islands (U.S.) 53 53 53 53 54
West Bank and Gaza 10 11 11 11 11
Yemen, Rep. 21 22 22 22 23
Zambia 75 75 75 75 75
Zimbabwe 66 64 69 73 77

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