Country Profiles

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Country Profiles

The African Views framework is based on a host of relative performance indicators that are offered on its country profile page. It uses scores (attributed to each of these indicators) to gauge and compare favorable conditions for human development in all countries. The indicators are made up of vital statistics that reflect components of governance, economics, social and demographic conditions for each country worldwide.

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The indicators

The indicators include statistics and scores as well as comparative rankings, which have been sourced from organizations such as the United Nations, World Bank, IMF, US Census Bureau, CIA, World Economic Forum, and so on. The main objective in collecting these facts and figures is to allow experts and audiences to connect and interpret how those facts reflect Africans and African diaspora conditions, development and issues everywhere in the world.

African Views then converts the scores collected from these organizations into percentiles. The conversion makes it relatively easy to understand and aggregate into a standardized weighted average. Each indicator score represents a quantifiable hypothesis and serves as practical impetus for dialogue.

How it works

Participants can contribute experiential evidence and knowledge from any field or discipline in many ways. This helps interpret or distinguish empirical from normative statements and question arguments that rely on hidden or questionable empirical foundations. The accumulation of information can reveal patterns of ripeness in center areas or trends inciting collaboration on new ideas, think tanks, solutions, work and creative endeavors.

A country's score on each indicator is ranked within the index of listed countries. The scores and ranking serve as a hint for inquiry or a tool to construct deep understanding for culture performance assessment and classifying service-related activities for improvements or distribution of required resources.

These indicators also organize the information into meaningful repositories, and serve as guided inquiry for contributors and guided learning for audience. The scores and ranking results are open for interpretation and welcome discourse with supporting materials, discussions and viewpoints from all sides, including limiting factors or even conflicting data, or/and reasons why the given data may be skewed.

See a list of countries on the right column of this page to view a country's short overviews and in-depth profiles of its vital statistics. Note that countries are scored from a total score from 100% (best) to 0 (worst) and ranked from 1 (really good) to 236 (really bad)