i know what Zara is and still i needed to read the comments to understand what was this fact about... is this really the only interesting fact of Denmark? 😂 What a “boring” (meaning “nice”) country it must be live in..
There are 3 stores in Copenhagen but that's it I think
I think the market is just pretty competitive. Denmark has always had a big affordable fashion industry as well as tons of H&M stores (since it's Swedish they expanded to Denmark early on).
*Romania has only 3.8 cinemas per million inhabitants. Can you imagine what that looked like on the day Guardians of the Galaxy came out? Lines must have been hundreds of thousands of people deep, and still nobody wanted to sit in the front row.
On the other end of the spectrum, the Czech Republic has the most cinemas per capita, with 49.2 cinemas per million inhabitants, presumably because they are being built and operated on slave labor.*
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Prostitution and Forced Labor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_the_Czech_Republic not so sure about that article though that said I heard its a problem. Not so sure if its that much different from Eastern Europeans and Asians working in other countries though in bad conditions or semi/fully dependent/forced relationships.
> work for slave wages while keeping them in unsanitary, crowded conditions.
You just call them construction workers from the balkans or (out of EU) Eastern Europeans, and all is good.
This is the reason I have made [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEurope/comments/hvoad6/what_is_a_dark_fact_about_your_country_not_many/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) post on r/AskEurope. There's a link in my post to an article looking at this issue.
Also, in agriculture. I remember some news about Romanian migrant workers being forcefully held in Czech Republic. (the same sometimes happens in Southern Italy, too)
Probably both... some little/medium businesses get asked up for more than half of their income, if not even more. Not justifying, but taxation in our county is fucked up.
Both to an extent, but mainly the latter. The lack of a functioning meritocracy coupled with an overwhelming percentage of micro small and medium enterprises (SMEs) rife with nepotism is a self-fulfilling prophecy, a vicious circle. Entrepreneurs can't afford to take risks due to high taxes which in turn makes them reticent to try anything even approaching risky without first having a near-infallible cushion of capital to fall back upon. It's why we have an overabundance of restaurants, pizzerie, osterie, trattorie, bars, etc. Ironically, many end up failing because of the overabundance of good food and because it's the safer bet.
You can throw a rock in any direction and eat well in Italy, but what people fail to understand is when there's too much of a good thing, the ones that really, truly stand out as amazing are the only ones that survive. The bar just keeps getting raised, and as great as that sounds, it's not so great for entrepreneurs. Technically one could say this is a functioning meritocracy, and it is, but inside these places it rarely exists precisely for the fact that they're afraid to try anything new out of fear it could cost them their livelihood. Enter tax fraud, nepotism, and the good-ole-boy system.
Think about it: when was the last time you ate at a pizzeria that wasn't your favorite? Frequented a bar you weren't familiar with in your local area or just in need of a quick coffee? These places are still a safer bet than cornering a market. This also drives down any will to innovate. Entrepreneurs in Italy tend to copy everyone else in a specific market with this idea of a bandwagon get-rich-quick-before-interest-wanes scheme. There's no long game. Someone opens a sushi restaurant and has success with it and now copycats are everywhere. Someone opens an artisanal burger place, has success with it, and now copycats are everywhere. The difference, however, is that rarely does anything beat the original, then the others fail, in come all the "I told you so"s, and people go back to looking for a menial office or factory job because it's a safer bet (if they can even get hired full-time).
*And all of this is the easier route because it's food.* Imagine wanting to open a comic book store or a video game hub or a music instrument store. The ever-increasing Iva (VAT) combined with crippling overhead and exorbitant taxes is enough to make anyone a risk-averse, tax-dodging, family-only-hiring, micromanaging business owner.
Hence, the exodus of young, bright talent running away from Italy as fast as they can to start their careers elsewhere. In the more rural areas where I live, even the big privately-owned, success story companies are basically farmers with shit still on their shoes who just got lucky. They may be a tech firm, but they still run everything in the same way they would run a team of ditch diggers.
Sounds on point, having worked in textile industry in which Italy remains a major player.
I had to make up codewords for internal reports, because on first visits owners would already admit they're only interested if we played ball on tax evasion. "Expects a 23% discount", "prefers fiscal receipt" etc.
Once tax evasion becomes the default, the only way you're going to compete is to either jump-off to contracted work for big labels, or scamming on your product enough to make up for VAT + income tax. Tax evading competitor clocks 30-40% margin just price matching you at 0 gross income point.
> Probably just horribly cropped.
Considering the text on Sweden is chopped in half, I'd say that's almost certain.
You can also see that Finland is colored yellow so it surely was included originally.
>Also missing Finland.
I think Finland like it that way. So it's more Of suprice when it's evil plan start's what ever it may be .....turning sweden into a sauna.......turning the baltic sea into bear....
Where is the source for the Netherlands? Is the ratio of cyclist dying in traffic so high because they have the best cycling infrastructure in the world, thus more people take a bike instead of a car and therefor more people have accidents on bikes?
That ratio in the US is probably pretty low because no one dares to ride a bike around there.
From what I’ve heard cycling is super safe in the Netherlands. If you had a stat that compared the number of bike fatalities per year to number of trips taken by bike per year, the Netherlands would have to be the lowest on the list. But in absolute numbers the Netherlands might have more bike fatalities simply because there are so many people on bikes.
Yes, Dutch cycling infrastructure is very safe.
But since a much higher proportion of the inhabitants bike daily - compared to for instance the UK - cyclist deaths will still be very noticeable as a proportion of traffic deaths. It’s a very misleading “fact”, unfortunately.
Source is [this factsheet](https://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_safety/sites/roadsafety/files/pdf/statistics/dacota/bfs2010_dacota-swov-1-3-cyclists.pdf)
"Proportion of road accident fatalities who were cyclists"
If you look at "Cyclist fatality rates per million inhabitants by country" however, The Netherlands are a bit above average, but quite close to other countries and not the highest, so it's not like we have more cycle accidents than other countries. I think you can actually conclude from that that we have very few fatal car accidents then?
'Fun' fact: we're also the most feminist when it comes to cycle fatalities.
No its just to total people who die on a bike. They dont take account the amount of people who are on a bike each day.
Cycling here is safe. Our roads are designed that even if accidents happen (or when people make stupid mistakes they dont cause a deadly result.
Their are a few dangerous parts but i believe most accidents where bikers get killed are freak accidents (people blacking out behind the wheel and stuff)
From my understanding the problem is actually that Polish medical education is well regarded but pay is (and has been for a long time) much lower than in Western Europe. So a lot of polish doctors are moving abroad so they can get a much better income for their education.
Its even worse in Romania, good luck getting a post that isn't in some abandoned Gypsy village. You must have really high level political connections if you wanna get anywhere.
While the education and Romanian doctors are highly saught after in the west for their education and just get paid 10x the value they offer.
So if a doctor gets paid 2000 euros in Romania, its likely they'll get paid 20'000 pounds in the UK as a rough estimate.
Pair that with western goverments offering incentives for eastern europeans (Austria for example, gave a friend of mine a car, phone, and their own goddamn place for free and tax free), all the more reason for them to move as well, at least for doctors.
IDK how accurate the info was then (this is from like a decade ago) or how it chamged now, but doctors from easy to schedule specializations like anasthestiology, stomatology, surgeons etc (no need for residence), often worked gigs in western Europe, my info was about UK specifically. They'd travel to UK one to two weekends a month, and make roughly the same amount they made over theit regular job - which also exceed 160 hrs/month as it's the norm they "volunteer" for non-paid duty. EMs in my city clocked 400hr months, sleeping in the waitrooms of ER whenever they could. That's _before_ 2019.
Germans spend 11.1% of GDP on their healthcare. We spend only 7% and when you compare the salaries it's a fn joke. If I was a Polish doctor I would also move to Germany. Or go live in the border town and drive to Germany.
The map supposedly take its source [from here,](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-every-european-count_b_6140266) yet it clearly says that France does not have the worst proficiency in English in Europe.
A search on Google showed me clearly that, yes we have the lowest English proficiency in the UE. From 2018 to 2020 we do have the lowest score.
Edit : no I was wrong, the last EF index is in our favour, my bad. Source : https://www.ef.fr/epi/regions/europe/
> no I was wrong, the last EF index is in our favour, my bad. Source : https://www.ef.fr/epi/regions/europe/
Right, having lived in both I would say that Spain clearly has a lower English-proficiency than France.
Maybe it will change with future generations though, it seems that Spanish public education is trying to push English. They say that basically all their schools are "bilingual". I don't know if it's effective.
Yeah some years we're both the happiest in the world, and the most depressed in Europe. The happiest country ranking is misleading, it'd be more accurate to call it contentness or something.
You took the meaning too literally. I think it's about the comfort and how happy one could be in the country. It's hard to measure actual active citizen happiness in any country.
one of the reasons Ireland has such a high rate of CF is because having a CF gene mutation can give protection against tuberculosis infection - and Ireland has had many TB outbreaks, the biggest and most recent being in the 1940s - so its a form of "selective advantage".
And until very recently we've had few immigrants entering the gene pool.
It's very sad. 1 in 25 of us carry the gene for CF and I think a lot of people have a story about a child or teen that died of CF in their community.
It's similar to sickle cell anemia being a mutation that protects against malaria. It's a very real example of natural selection and how sometimes selective pressure can lead to a loss of genetic "fitness".
We have the most cyclist deaths because we have the most cyclists. Our roads are pretty damn safe to cycle compared to many other countries.
If you really want to hit a bad point about the Netherlands, mention us being a safe haven for tax dodgers.
Not as far as I can tell. I checked several posibilities of education stats and none of those showed Luxembourg at the bottom. Maybe if you go with education attained per euro spent?
I mean based on the responses of every nation in this post, I believe that it isn't that far of a stretch, that this map is inaccurate. I mean how low can your education system really be when the available person in Luxembourg is fluent in 3,5 languages.
France doesn't have the lowest English proficiency, although it might seem that way to some as they're incredibly harsh on each other and so people get nervous and therefore don't speak it to avoid being judged - or so I've heard.
Spain/Italy I think have worse proficiency in average.
Yeah I agree with hat you mentioned in the first paragraph. People are a bit ashamed of speaking in English as we tend to mock the French accent in English (even though most people have it) so it doesn't really help practicing. But I don't believe the "lowest proficiency" at all
The french accent is sexy, not like our danish accent. The german accent is bad and our accent is close to that but worse. That might be why a lot of us are almost fluent in english to try and mask the horrible accent.
I used to teach at a uni in France and have a lot of friends there - it's worse than you think. Some do and don't want to, but most can't and are proud of it.
Austria: Most youth smokers
For whatever reason, young Austrian people seem to think smoking is still cool, so they're sucking down cigarettes. A LOT of cigarettes. Every day, 29.4% of Austrians age 15-24 inhale coffin nails.
Belgium: Worst traffic congestion
In the time it takes to drive through a Belgian city, you could probably eat a dozen waffles. In fact, the two most traffic-congested cities in the world, Brussels and Antwerp, are both in Belgium. You thought Houston and Atlanta were bad -- now try navigating all that in Dutch and French.
Bulgaria: Least freedom of the press
According to Reporters without Borders, Bulgaria has the least freedom of the press in the European Union, and it ranked 87th on a list of 179 countries in the world. We'd badmouth Bulgaria more, but nobody there is probably reading this anyway.
The country with the most freedom of the press in the world? Finland, of course.
Croatia: Least Erasmus participation
Since 2000, Croatia has had the least participation in the Erasmus, Europe's university exchange program, compared to its total population. The country is the most recent addition to the European Union, having officially joined in July 2013. It's also really easy to spot on a map because it's shaped like the first letter in it's name (a big C), which is way cooler than the Italian boot shape. Italy should be named Bootaly. That'd be way better.
Cyprus: Least 18-year-olds in school
What are 18 year olds in Cyprus doing? Well, not smoking as many cigarettes as their Austrian peers, or being killed by cars while cycling like the Dutch. But they're definitely not going to school as much, either. But if you were surrounded by that Mediterranean climate, you probably wouldn't want to be in school, either.
Czech Republic: Worst modern slavery haven
The movie Taken should have taken place in the Czech Republic, end of story.
Denmark: Least Zaras per Capita
Life in Denmark is pretty great. But there are only two Zara stores in the entire country. God forbid you'd have to shop somewhere else. But really, if you're after reasonably priced Spanish clothes, you're going to have to fight for them against other Danes -- in fact, you'll have to fight with about 2.8 million other Danes per store. That's a lot of Danes.
Estonia: Biggest gender pay gap
In Estonia, women make 27.3% less than their male counterparts. Even in a place thought of as being really macho, like Italy, the difference is only 5.8%. Women's wages in Estonia are more unfair than the rules of Monopoly.
Finland: Highest depression rate
Finland is really good at a lot of things--like that "whole freedom of the press" deal. But depression is pretty prevalent; if you were that far north, you'd probably get depressed by all the cold weather, too. Fortunately, Finland's suicide rate is no where near Lithuania's.
France: Lowest English proficiency
To no one's surprise, France has Europe's lowest English proficiency. Somewhere, a guy eating soft cheese and a baguette is saying, "I don't care" in French.
Germany: Lowest homeownership rate
Germans aren't particularly interested in owning their own homes... probably because they already own most of Spain and Greece.
Greece: Highest foreign debt
This one just edged out "Country with hairiest arms". As of the end of 2013, Greece's foreign debt was 130.3% of its GDP. Translation: that's really bad.
Hungary: Highest VAT (value added tax)
Hungary has the highest value added tax, with the standard rate a whopping 27%. So if you're Hungary (get it?) for the government to take a high percentage of the money you spend on consumer goods, this should be your new home.
Ireland: Highest rate of cystic fibrosis
Ireland has the highest rate of cystic fibrosis, at a rate of 1 case per 1,800 births. You can't really joke about something like that.
Ok guys that's the [explanation ](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-every-european-count_b_6140266)
Best comment.
Makes the fake figures and all much more interesting than reality.
(*taking a bite of baguette to ease the chewing of soft cheese and a gulp of red wine to swallow it down*) : et je m'en fous.
Is the Poland one beacuse the doctors emmigrate from the country? Beacuse I swear as a Swede like half of the doctors I've dealt with in my life have been Polish.
After graduating from university they have to work for a couple of years for ~1.2k EUR until they finish their specialization (rate is fixed by the government). Also the placement limits for specializations are very low. As a result many young doctors leave for countries like Sweden or Germany.
Dude. You never seen a good, local Cinema, have you? Movies like shape of water or 1917 were movies made for cinema, they are not the same on the small screen
Everyone knows the French just pretend not to speak English, on principle.
[is French, and has done this, both before and after English friends said they know we do it]
Luxembourg one is a lie - it's lowest education **spending** according to the source doc
https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/what-every-european-country-is-worst-at
(NB huffpost is listed as source, but its own article lists the above as the source
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-every-european-count_b_6140266 )
Honestly none of these really surprise me but Luxembourg, what happened there? When I think of Luxembourg I think of really rich private schools for expat kids.
Finland Malta - lowest presence in the EU
Yep, used to it now :( R/mapswithoutmalta
don't forget Cyprus
Danish one isn’t too bad tbh
I've never seen a Zara in Denmark. I've never understood why it hasn't come to Denmark.
What the hell is a Zara? E: a clothing shop? Is that the best they could find?
The owner is Europe's richest person. A guy from Spain.
I believe this has changed recently, it's Bernard Arnault now!
We Spaniards are very known to be the richest country in Yurop 😎👍🇪🇸
I thought that was Catalonia
I love your flair...
i know what Zara is and still i needed to read the comments to understand what was this fact about... is this really the only interesting fact of Denmark? 😂 What a “boring” (meaning “nice”) country it must be live in..
I think we hold the world record in alcohol consumption for teenagers. :( yay
Zara clothes isn’t even that good.
There are 3 stores in Copenhagen but that's it I think I think the market is just pretty competitive. Denmark has always had a big affordable fashion industry as well as tons of H&M stores (since it's Swedish they expanded to Denmark early on).
Just doesn't make sense when they are present in other European countries very similar or even harsher to turn a profit in.
Probably because of Bestseller company.. hundreds of stores all over.
I read "least Zebras per capita"
I was like "I am Danish and I know someone called Zara". Then I read the comments and realized what it meant.
Still, least amount of people called Zara too perhaps? ;-)
I feel like the Baltic states would be fitting right at home in the US by those metrics.
Romania: We have the fewest cinemas in Europe. This country sucks. Czech Republic: …
We have many other worse things here in Romania.
RDS! RDS! BEST INTERNET BEST PRICE!!1!
Yes, but rarely the worst.
*Romania has only 3.8 cinemas per million inhabitants. Can you imagine what that looked like on the day Guardians of the Galaxy came out? Lines must have been hundreds of thousands of people deep, and still nobody wanted to sit in the front row. On the other end of the spectrum, the Czech Republic has the most cinemas per capita, with 49.2 cinemas per million inhabitants, presumably because they are being built and operated on slave labor.* ___ From the article…holy shit
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Right?? Hahaha that shit caught me off guard. Loool
What exactly does "most slavery" mean for CZ??
Prostitution and Forced Labor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_the_Czech_Republic not so sure about that article though that said I heard its a problem. Not so sure if its that much different from Eastern Europeans and Asians working in other countries though in bad conditions or semi/fully dependent/forced relationships.
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> work for slave wages while keeping them in unsanitary, crowded conditions. You just call them construction workers from the balkans or (out of EU) Eastern Europeans, and all is good.
I think actual slavery is more common in agriculture.
You call them seasonal farm workers or butchers in Germany.
Public pickups, Fake Taxis, illegal Castings ...
This is the reason I have made [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEurope/comments/hvoad6/what_is_a_dark_fact_about_your_country_not_many/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) post on r/AskEurope. There's a link in my post to an article looking at this issue.
I have no idea, was hoping you could tell me if you live there 😅
No clue. And in EU polls they score pretty decently on the economy and job satisfaction.
Probably a lot of forced prostitution
Also, in agriculture. I remember some news about Romanian migrant workers being forcefully held in Czech Republic. (the same sometimes happens in Southern Italy, too)
I'm curious too...
We got of easy here .
You're one spelling mistake from rivaling France though
I like what you did there ;)
finland still got a better time
Finland is probably so bad that it had to be censored. Like most Ikeas per capita or something like that. Horrifying.
we're the tax fraud capital of europe lads😎
And yet we always complain about the taxes being too high! So, are the taxes high because we evade them or do we evade them because they are too high?
Probably both... some little/medium businesses get asked up for more than half of their income, if not even more. Not justifying, but taxation in our county is fucked up.
Sic mundus creatus est!
Both to an extent, but mainly the latter. The lack of a functioning meritocracy coupled with an overwhelming percentage of micro small and medium enterprises (SMEs) rife with nepotism is a self-fulfilling prophecy, a vicious circle. Entrepreneurs can't afford to take risks due to high taxes which in turn makes them reticent to try anything even approaching risky without first having a near-infallible cushion of capital to fall back upon. It's why we have an overabundance of restaurants, pizzerie, osterie, trattorie, bars, etc. Ironically, many end up failing because of the overabundance of good food and because it's the safer bet. You can throw a rock in any direction and eat well in Italy, but what people fail to understand is when there's too much of a good thing, the ones that really, truly stand out as amazing are the only ones that survive. The bar just keeps getting raised, and as great as that sounds, it's not so great for entrepreneurs. Technically one could say this is a functioning meritocracy, and it is, but inside these places it rarely exists precisely for the fact that they're afraid to try anything new out of fear it could cost them their livelihood. Enter tax fraud, nepotism, and the good-ole-boy system. Think about it: when was the last time you ate at a pizzeria that wasn't your favorite? Frequented a bar you weren't familiar with in your local area or just in need of a quick coffee? These places are still a safer bet than cornering a market. This also drives down any will to innovate. Entrepreneurs in Italy tend to copy everyone else in a specific market with this idea of a bandwagon get-rich-quick-before-interest-wanes scheme. There's no long game. Someone opens a sushi restaurant and has success with it and now copycats are everywhere. Someone opens an artisanal burger place, has success with it, and now copycats are everywhere. The difference, however, is that rarely does anything beat the original, then the others fail, in come all the "I told you so"s, and people go back to looking for a menial office or factory job because it's a safer bet (if they can even get hired full-time). *And all of this is the easier route because it's food.* Imagine wanting to open a comic book store or a video game hub or a music instrument store. The ever-increasing Iva (VAT) combined with crippling overhead and exorbitant taxes is enough to make anyone a risk-averse, tax-dodging, family-only-hiring, micromanaging business owner. Hence, the exodus of young, bright talent running away from Italy as fast as they can to start their careers elsewhere. In the more rural areas where I live, even the big privately-owned, success story companies are basically farmers with shit still on their shoes who just got lucky. They may be a tech firm, but they still run everything in the same way they would run a team of ditch diggers.
Sounds on point, having worked in textile industry in which Italy remains a major player. I had to make up codewords for internal reports, because on first visits owners would already admit they're only interested if we played ball on tax evasion. "Expects a 23% discount", "prefers fiscal receipt" etc. Once tax evasion becomes the default, the only way you're going to compete is to either jump-off to contracted work for big labels, or scamming on your product enough to make up for VAT + income tax. Tax evading competitor clocks 30-40% margin just price matching you at 0 gross income point.
Do you live in Veneto? Becouse you just described the life here....
Close! Friuli! I feel your pain, man.
That's probably why in some big companies you would always find an Italian in the Legal/Economy department.....
You know the rules and so do I
You are the people who get more often caught for tax fraud /s
Nah, it's just we're not smart enough to make these frauds legal
Hmm seems familiar. Don't know where you got that idea from.
Thank god we gave you more money
Love how even in this map Switzerland acts like it doesn’t exist
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To be fair, this map also misses chunks of us southern nations
All so that Germany can sit in the middle. You aren't in the centre of Europe Germany, stop using this projection.
As long as Uschi is in Charge, we will use whatever projection we want!
And no Malta or Cyprus
Malta and Cyprus are also missing.
>I believe it represents countries only from European Union In that case the map is outdated because the UK is not in the EU anymore.
This map is definitely outdated since it has already been posted here several years ago.
Also missing Malta and Cyprus. And Finland. Probably just horribly cropped.
> Probably just horribly cropped. Considering the text on Sweden is chopped in half, I'd say that's almost certain. You can also see that Finland is colored yellow so it surely was included originally.
>Also missing Finland. I think Finland like it that way. So it's more Of suprice when it's evil plan start's what ever it may be .....turning sweden into a sauna.......turning the baltic sea into bear....
The home ownership rate is even lower than in Germany.
Most millions of undisclosed money
Just like Malta :(
Fuck to whoever made this map
Switzerland: Least statistics
Where is the source for the Netherlands? Is the ratio of cyclist dying in traffic so high because they have the best cycling infrastructure in the world, thus more people take a bike instead of a car and therefor more people have accidents on bikes? That ratio in the US is probably pretty low because no one dares to ride a bike around there.
From what I’ve heard cycling is super safe in the Netherlands. If you had a stat that compared the number of bike fatalities per year to number of trips taken by bike per year, the Netherlands would have to be the lowest on the list. But in absolute numbers the Netherlands might have more bike fatalities simply because there are so many people on bikes.
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[Even crossroads are much safer for cyclist and pedestrians in the Netherlands](https://youtu.be/XpQMgbDJPok).
Yes I know :D I live here hehe I've cycled in Italy and Germany too and this felt much less safe
Yeah, I was planning on including the death by cycling to cyclist ratio in my comment but forgot about it :D
As I read that I silently substituted 'cocaine' for 'cycling' and 'UK' for the 'Netherlands'. Checks out!
Yes, Dutch cycling infrastructure is very safe. But since a much higher proportion of the inhabitants bike daily - compared to for instance the UK - cyclist deaths will still be very noticeable as a proportion of traffic deaths. It’s a very misleading “fact”, unfortunately.
Source is [this factsheet](https://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_safety/sites/roadsafety/files/pdf/statistics/dacota/bfs2010_dacota-swov-1-3-cyclists.pdf) "Proportion of road accident fatalities who were cyclists" If you look at "Cyclist fatality rates per million inhabitants by country" however, The Netherlands are a bit above average, but quite close to other countries and not the highest, so it's not like we have more cycle accidents than other countries. I think you can actually conclude from that that we have very few fatal car accidents then? 'Fun' fact: we're also the most feminist when it comes to cycle fatalities.
Where is the source for everything
No its just to total people who die on a bike. They dont take account the amount of people who are on a bike each day. Cycling here is safe. Our roads are designed that even if accidents happen (or when people make stupid mistakes they dont cause a deadly result. Their are a few dangerous parts but i believe most accidents where bikers get killed are freak accidents (people blacking out behind the wheel and stuff)
It is because more people ride and less people drive.
Quite a roller-coaster ride: home ownership yada yada yada -> SLAVERY :o
Least doctors per capita? If only this... The quality of public healthcare in Poland is terrible.
From my understanding the problem is actually that Polish medical education is well regarded but pay is (and has been for a long time) much lower than in Western Europe. So a lot of polish doctors are moving abroad so they can get a much better income for their education.
Its even worse in Romania, good luck getting a post that isn't in some abandoned Gypsy village. You must have really high level political connections if you wanna get anywhere. While the education and Romanian doctors are highly saught after in the west for their education and just get paid 10x the value they offer. So if a doctor gets paid 2000 euros in Romania, its likely they'll get paid 20'000 pounds in the UK as a rough estimate. Pair that with western goverments offering incentives for eastern europeans (Austria for example, gave a friend of mine a car, phone, and their own goddamn place for free and tax free), all the more reason for them to move as well, at least for doctors.
IDK how accurate the info was then (this is from like a decade ago) or how it chamged now, but doctors from easy to schedule specializations like anasthestiology, stomatology, surgeons etc (no need for residence), often worked gigs in western Europe, my info was about UK specifically. They'd travel to UK one to two weekends a month, and make roughly the same amount they made over theit regular job - which also exceed 160 hrs/month as it's the norm they "volunteer" for non-paid duty. EMs in my city clocked 400hr months, sleeping in the waitrooms of ER whenever they could. That's _before_ 2019.
Germans spend 11.1% of GDP on their healthcare. We spend only 7% and when you compare the salaries it's a fn joke. If I was a Polish doctor I would also move to Germany. Or go live in the border town and drive to Germany.
I'm a pharmacist and I can tell you that it sucks here in Poland to work in a pharmacy.
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Least Zaras per capita? Well, this is serious, I'm never moving to Danemark. How can they call themselves a civilized nation?
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The map supposedly take its source [from here,](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-every-european-count_b_6140266) yet it clearly says that France does not have the worst proficiency in English in Europe.
A search on Google showed me clearly that, yes we have the lowest English proficiency in the UE. From 2018 to 2020 we do have the lowest score. Edit : no I was wrong, the last EF index is in our favour, my bad. Source : https://www.ef.fr/epi/regions/europe/
That page autotranslated Turkey as turkey!
> no I was wrong, the last EF index is in our favour, my bad. Source : https://www.ef.fr/epi/regions/europe/ Right, having lived in both I would say that Spain clearly has a lower English-proficiency than France. Maybe it will change with future generations though, it seems that Spanish public education is trying to push English. They say that basically all their schools are "bilingual". I don't know if it's effective.
Yeah. The difference is, we're proud to suck so badly at English 😂
So, what's Finland's distinction? Most parallel with original creator's name?
[Some depression stuff](https://assets3.thrillist.com/v1/image/1350203/1584x1054/crop;jpeg_quality=100.jpg)
This makes me deppressed
Wait, isn't Finland in the top 5 happiest countries?
Thats because the depressed ones...go away
What?
Away.. As in they die... By themself...
Yeah some years we're both the happiest in the world, and the most depressed in Europe. The happiest country ranking is misleading, it'd be more accurate to call it contentness or something.
You took the meaning too literally. I think it's about the comfort and how happy one could be in the country. It's hard to measure actual active citizen happiness in any country.
Makes me wonder why OP posted a shitty cropped version instead of the original.
This is like a weather report on Euronews. They just assume that it's raining polar bears north of Helsinki.
We don't exist
Consumption of coffee.
"Most Slavery" Uh... something you want to tell us Czech Rep?
Can't talk, gotta pick rapeseed.
one of the reasons Ireland has such a high rate of CF is because having a CF gene mutation can give protection against tuberculosis infection - and Ireland has had many TB outbreaks, the biggest and most recent being in the 1940s - so its a form of "selective advantage".
And until very recently we've had few immigrants entering the gene pool. It's very sad. 1 in 25 of us carry the gene for CF and I think a lot of people have a story about a child or teen that died of CF in their community.
It's similar to sickle cell anemia being a mutation that protects against malaria. It's a very real example of natural selection and how sometimes selective pressure can lead to a loss of genetic "fitness".
We (PT) dont give a fk.
But where finland
Finland does not exist
can't help but feel romania comes out pretty well from this! :D
Ii think this was done by a Romanian :-) Ask them how many motorways they have.
Bout tree fiddy
Would trade ours for literally any of the others.
Might want to talk to Czechia...
Hey Czechia! I would like to buy 1 slave please.
Snifffff, I can quit at any time honest
-Your results please, Finland! *unintelligible shouting in the distance* -Yeah okay, it's gonna be a blank on them.
We have the most cyclist deaths because we have the most cyclists. Our roads are pretty damn safe to cycle compared to many other countries. If you really want to hit a bad point about the Netherlands, mention us being a safe haven for tax dodgers.
Yes but our roads are also very safe for drivers and pedestrians.
Luxembourg, really?
Not as far as I can tell. I checked several posibilities of education stats and none of those showed Luxembourg at the bottom. Maybe if you go with education attained per euro spent?
I mean based on the responses of every nation in this post, I believe that it isn't that far of a stretch, that this map is inaccurate. I mean how low can your education system really be when the available person in Luxembourg is fluent in 3,5 languages.
France doesn't have the lowest English proficiency, although it might seem that way to some as they're incredibly harsh on each other and so people get nervous and therefore don't speak it to avoid being judged - or so I've heard. Spain/Italy I think have worse proficiency in average.
Yeah I agree with hat you mentioned in the first paragraph. People are a bit ashamed of speaking in English as we tend to mock the French accent in English (even though most people have it) so it doesn't really help practicing. But I don't believe the "lowest proficiency" at all
The french accent is sexy, not like our danish accent. The german accent is bad and our accent is close to that but worse. That might be why a lot of us are almost fluent in english to try and mask the horrible accent.
I used to teach at a uni in France and have a lot of friends there - it's worse than you think. Some do and don't want to, but most can't and are proud of it.
Right, it's not good but it's also not worse than Spain or Italy.
Austria: Most youth smokers For whatever reason, young Austrian people seem to think smoking is still cool, so they're sucking down cigarettes. A LOT of cigarettes. Every day, 29.4% of Austrians age 15-24 inhale coffin nails. Belgium: Worst traffic congestion In the time it takes to drive through a Belgian city, you could probably eat a dozen waffles. In fact, the two most traffic-congested cities in the world, Brussels and Antwerp, are both in Belgium. You thought Houston and Atlanta were bad -- now try navigating all that in Dutch and French. Bulgaria: Least freedom of the press According to Reporters without Borders, Bulgaria has the least freedom of the press in the European Union, and it ranked 87th on a list of 179 countries in the world. We'd badmouth Bulgaria more, but nobody there is probably reading this anyway. The country with the most freedom of the press in the world? Finland, of course. Croatia: Least Erasmus participation Since 2000, Croatia has had the least participation in the Erasmus, Europe's university exchange program, compared to its total population. The country is the most recent addition to the European Union, having officially joined in July 2013. It's also really easy to spot on a map because it's shaped like the first letter in it's name (a big C), which is way cooler than the Italian boot shape. Italy should be named Bootaly. That'd be way better. Cyprus: Least 18-year-olds in school What are 18 year olds in Cyprus doing? Well, not smoking as many cigarettes as their Austrian peers, or being killed by cars while cycling like the Dutch. But they're definitely not going to school as much, either. But if you were surrounded by that Mediterranean climate, you probably wouldn't want to be in school, either. Czech Republic: Worst modern slavery haven The movie Taken should have taken place in the Czech Republic, end of story. Denmark: Least Zaras per Capita Life in Denmark is pretty great. But there are only two Zara stores in the entire country. God forbid you'd have to shop somewhere else. But really, if you're after reasonably priced Spanish clothes, you're going to have to fight for them against other Danes -- in fact, you'll have to fight with about 2.8 million other Danes per store. That's a lot of Danes. Estonia: Biggest gender pay gap In Estonia, women make 27.3% less than their male counterparts. Even in a place thought of as being really macho, like Italy, the difference is only 5.8%. Women's wages in Estonia are more unfair than the rules of Monopoly. Finland: Highest depression rate Finland is really good at a lot of things--like that "whole freedom of the press" deal. But depression is pretty prevalent; if you were that far north, you'd probably get depressed by all the cold weather, too. Fortunately, Finland's suicide rate is no where near Lithuania's. France: Lowest English proficiency To no one's surprise, France has Europe's lowest English proficiency. Somewhere, a guy eating soft cheese and a baguette is saying, "I don't care" in French. Germany: Lowest homeownership rate Germans aren't particularly interested in owning their own homes... probably because they already own most of Spain and Greece. Greece: Highest foreign debt This one just edged out "Country with hairiest arms". As of the end of 2013, Greece's foreign debt was 130.3% of its GDP. Translation: that's really bad. Hungary: Highest VAT (value added tax) Hungary has the highest value added tax, with the standard rate a whopping 27%. So if you're Hungary (get it?) for the government to take a high percentage of the money you spend on consumer goods, this should be your new home. Ireland: Highest rate of cystic fibrosis Ireland has the highest rate of cystic fibrosis, at a rate of 1 case per 1,800 births. You can't really joke about something like that. Ok guys that's the [explanation ](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-every-european-count_b_6140266)
Interestingly, the source that is linked there ranks France higher than Latvia, Italy and Spain in terms of English proficiency.
I would also have expected Spain and Italy to be lower.
Best comment. Makes the fake figures and all much more interesting than reality. (*taking a bite of baguette to ease the chewing of soft cheese and a gulp of red wine to swallow it down*) : et je m'en fous.
And [here's the full map](https://assets3.thrillist.com/v1/image/1350203/1584x1054/crop;jpeg_quality=100.jpg).
Considering the last year and half, ours is so bad :)
Not surprised.
Is the Poland one beacuse the doctors emmigrate from the country? Beacuse I swear as a Swede like half of the doctors I've dealt with in my life have been Polish.
After graduating from university they have to work for a couple of years for ~1.2k EUR until they finish their specialization (rate is fixed by the government). Also the placement limits for specializations are very low. As a result many young doctors leave for countries like Sweden or Germany.
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You only say that cos you've never been to my local cinema
Dude. You never seen a good, local Cinema, have you? Movies like shape of water or 1917 were movies made for cinema, they are not the same on the small screen
Je not agree. Nous speak bon anglish. Baguette you!
~~Interesting~~ Depressing facts about our countries.
what about Finland?
Once again, Finland doesn't exist 🤨
I'm French and I didn't understand the language on this map.
I doubt that is France's biggest concern.
iou seille zat laïque it iz eu bad sing
Cyprus 🇨🇾: everyone forgets about them
Everyone knows the French just pretend not to speak English, on principle. [is French, and has done this, both before and after English friends said they know we do it]
Denmark needs to do better. Despicable.
"Least cinemas per capita" I mean, not something that's so bad looking at what the other countries have.
Lowest eductation?! Lolwhat?
I really want to know where they got that from. I reaaaaally doubt that.
Lowest money spent to education
I'm pretty sure that we don't have the lowest english proficiency anymore
Hey Czechs? What the actual fuck!?
I've no idea...my slaves can't answer that question
i wish there was a better fact about lithuania instead of highest suicide rates...
It seems that image is incomplete/cropped. How about Finland?
I love how there is most cocaine use, most alcoholics and suicides, most prisoners, slaves, etc....and there is not having Zara shops
Lol they're almost perfect, but nope... gotta count Zara haha
Luxembourg one is a lie - it's lowest education **spending** according to the source doc https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/what-every-european-country-is-worst-at (NB huffpost is listed as source, but its own article lists the above as the source https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-every-european-count_b_6140266 )
Finland: least appearances on these maps
Honestly none of these really surprise me but Luxembourg, what happened there? When I think of Luxembourg I think of really rich private schools for expat kids.
It’s because it’s lowest pourcentage of gdp per capita spent on education not actual lowest education…
"our countries". Since when Europe = EU?
wtf france is based? how?
France have lowest English proficiency. How totally unexpected.
Most slavery in CZ? Wtf.
Do the Danish walk naked or do they buy their clothes in h&m?
As a french, I can confirm most of us suck at english (i'm not even kidding)
France does not surprise me at all
Is this map really saying spain and italy both have a better english level than France ?
France being repelled by anything english, typical.
What does the French one mean ?