More Interesting Facts about Lebanon

In this post, we mention more interesting facts about Lebanon.

1- According to Sc Imago Journal and country rank, Lebanon is ranked as the 68th nation in terms of the number of publications in the year 2011 with 1,446 publications in all subjects.  Although, the number one is the US with 519,573 publications but the comparison here is invalid due to different factors (population size, educational standards, wealth, etc...).  One good relative measure would be Switzerland whose population is as twice as it is in Lebanon with 33,272 publications and ranked at the 18th position.  Moreover there are only 12 higher educational institutions in Switzerland compared to 32 in Lebanon.

2- A Gallup poll made in 2009 about the importance of religion in the daily life of people, 89.5% of people in Lebanon answered positively compared to 65% in USA, 40.5% in Germany, 29.5% in France and 26.5% in UK.  Needless to say that all Arab countries scored in the 90's with 100% in Bangladesh.

3- Lebanon is ranked as the 128th nation in terms of corruption along with Togo with a score of 30/100 where 0 is perceived as highly corrupt.   The corruption perception index ranks countries based the level of corruption in their public sector.

4- In the global competitiveness report 2012-2013 published by the World Economic Forum, Lebanon is ranked as the 127th from 144 for infrastructure global competitiveness with a score of 2.5/7 where infrastructure is defined as a basic requirement in that report.