This paper includes information about the five best and five worst countries. It includes statistics to show where the country stands among the rest of the countries in the world and it also includes characteristics that support the reasoning of the five best and five worst countries that were selected. .
The criteria that is included in this research paper is five characteristics of the five best and five worst countries in the world. The characteristic that has the most utmost importance is education. Educations statistic is calculated by the average years attended in school in males, females and the average of both. Illiteracy is another characteristic that also is important, due to the link it has with education. This is calculated by a percentage of males and females that is illiterate in the population of the country. The next characteristic that was selected was the infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births. The fourth characteristic for this paper is life expectancy at birth. Which is measured by years in males, females and an average of both. Population below poverty line is the final characteristic that was chosen for this paper. This statistic is calculated as a percentage of total population below poverty line. These characteristics were selected because of their importance to each country.
The five countries that were researched and found to be to be the worst were Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, Mali and Niger. One of the worst countries was Chad. Chad's education is only given in a total of 3.9 years attended. In Chad, only one-half of the children actually attend school. The illiteracy rate in Chad is 48.4% in men and 66.0% in women. Illiteracy can be associated to education with the fact that without education there aren't any ways for the people to learn to read or write. Since education is low in Chad, the illiteracy rate is high. In Chad, the infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births is 93.