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Scoring the 10th place in a list of 104 nations covering 90% of the world’s population is something that deserves respect and recognition. And if we are talking about a tiny country with 4 million people then it gets even more interesting.

So New Zealand is officially the 10th most prosper country in the world:

http://media.nzherald.co.nz/webcontent/document/pdf/Successful.pdf

Well done, New Zealand.

Unfortunately I can’t celebrate my home country, Brazil’s situation. We are ranking at 41, which might not sound so bad until we compare the same country two years ago when it was ranking at 34.

That’s sad and shows how not well current government is doing over there. But much worse is Venezuela that managed to go down from 31 in 2007 to impressive 74 now. How stupid can people be to not see such a disaster happening before their eyes? How can people still approve someone as Hugo Chaves or Lula after so many obvious facts?

In Brazil it is easy to explain. People are too busy celebrating that Rio will be hosting the Olympics to worry about boring statistics and facts. Oh well, let’s hope things will change in the future over there…