Monday, February 28, 2011

If It Were My Home: Comparing Sweden to the United States

In my final post about Sweden, I'd like to share a wonderful Internet site that appeals to the geeky librarian in me for its beautiful presentation of data and ease of understanding for the reader.  This site is called ''If It Were My Home.''  It allows readers to compare two countries side-by-side.  I'm glad to see the instincts telling me Sweden is outperforming the United States were correct.  I wish I was wrong, alas, no.

The only category where we are outperforming Sweden is in income.  Given that our wealth is at the top, and Sweden is 25% immigrants, it feels much wealthier than America when you're there.

 Click on my title to go to the real site with extensive informatıon. Compare any two countries you want! Wouldn't it be cool if our countries felt competitive with each other about their statistical performance and started to compete on performance on our behalf?

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There Is No Need to Save Face In Sweden

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The Swedish Tourist Attraction That Didn't Attract Me

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Such a great website!

Travel With Lulu said...

I've seen this before and spent a long time playing on it. Sooo cool!

Perhaps you would like to join me for my Expat Blog Linky Party on March 19th? Hope to see you then, if not sooner.

Sheila said...

very interesting...thanks for sharing Karen!

said...

Karen,
Sweden is one of the most beatifull countries. I have spent 7 years there. One night, I grabbed my children and my wife and I drove from that paradise and never came back. I could not take it anymore.

Vlastimil

 
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