Poor, Indebted, Yet Free
Nations That Should Be Most Open To Unitism
The Unidex of Poor, Indebted, Yet Free Nations
These Are the Nations That Should be Most Open to Unitism
Are you an Upraiser, Uniraiser, or just a general Uniter who’d like to know in what countries non-nationals (foreigners) can donate to political parties and/or candidates, and thus make a direct and positive impact for a better world through Unitism? You’re in the right place! Indicated below are countries that allow foreign contributions (political donations to that country’s politicians from non-citizens), along with rankings in terms human development, national debt, freedom of expression and political organization (check out these UN, IMF and Freedom House links for most of the data we’re using to compile these lists):
To the point: while currently we’re cobbling together a list of all countries where we can directly foster and fund the founding and development of local, home-grown Unity Parties, at some point we’ll more laser-focus our efforts on such countries that are poor, heavily indebted (at least at the national government level), yet free (i.e., most in need of and most open to [at least in theory] our Unitist message).
Let us know if your own country would be a great candidate for our message, and check back frequently!
See also: OECD Members and their bans on anonymous donations and donations by foreign states and foreign enterrpises (the OECD is the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
The Unidex (UN HDI ranking + IMF CGD ranking + FH FITW ranking):
South Sudan, Republic of: 2+2+12=14
Sri Lanka: 3+1+10=14
Japan: 17+1+2=20
Liberia: 9+3+9=21
Sudan: 1+1+19=21
*Australia: 16+9+2=27
*Germany: 17+7+6=30
Morocco: 10+3+17=30
Canada: 19+11+1=31
*Israel: 16+6+10=32
United Kingdom: 19+5+8=32
Serbia: 14+6+13=33
United States: 18+4+11=33
Egypt: 11+3+20=34
Greece: 16+2+16=34
Bosnia and Herzegovina: 12+8+15=35
Türkiye: 13+8+18=39
*Netherlands: 23+12+5=40
*Sweden: 23+15+2=40
Norway: 24+18+2=44
Denmark: 23+18+4=45
*Switzerland: 28+21+8=57
*Political donations by foreigners allowed (with restrictions, of course) in Australia, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland
United Nations Human Development Index (HDI) (2022 Values):
Sudan: 0.380
South Sudan, Republic of: 0.381
Central African Republic: 0.387
Chad: 0.394
Niger: 0.394
Mali: 0.410
Burundi: 0.420
Yemen: 0.424
Liberia: 0.487
Morocco: 0.698
Egypt: 0.728
Bosnia and Herzegovina: 0.779
Sri Lanka: 0.780
Serbia: 0.805
Türkiye: 0.855
Greece: 0.893
Israel: 0.915
Japan: 0.920
United States: 0.927
Canada: 0.935
United Kingdom: 0.940
Australia: 0.946
Netherlands: 0.946
Germany: 0.950
Denmark: 0.952
Sweden: 0.952
Norway: 0.966
Switzerland: 0.967
The International Monetary Fund’s Central Government Debt List (2022 Values):
Japan: 214.27%
Greece: 192.41%
Sudan: 127.55%
Sri Lanka: 117.66%
United States: 110.15%
United Kingdom: 100.75%
*Egypt: 88.5%
Morocco: 68.79%
Israel: 59.23%
Liberia: 55.37%
Serbia: 50.81%
*Netherlands: 50.1%
Canada: 49.83%
Germany: 45.95%
South Sudan, Republic of: 39.64%
Australia: 38.63%
Sweden: 37.03%
Bosnia and Herzegovina: 29.56%
Türkiye: 26.88%
Denmark: 23.1%
Switzerland: 14.4%
Norway: 13.17%
*Note that the IMF doesn’t list all national debts on its site. Asterisks in this section indicate debt percentage was obtained from a different source (which is linked to as appropriate).
Freedom House’s Freedom in the World Report (2024 Values):
Sweden: 99
Norway: 98
Canada: 97
Denmark: 97
Netherlands: 97
Belgium: 96
Japan: 96
Switzerland: 96
Australia: 95
Barbados: 94
Andorra: 93
Austria: 93
Germany: 93
United Kingdom: 91
Belize: 87
Antigua and Barbuda: 85
Argentina: 85
Greece: 85
United States: 83
Israel: 74
Albania: 68
Liberia: 64
Bhutan: 63
Benin: 61
Serbia: 57
Armenia: 54
Sri Lanka: 54
Bosnia and Herzegovina: 51
Bangladesh: 40
Abkhazia: 39
Morocco: 37
Türkiye: 33
Algeria: 32
Angola: 28
Egypt: 18
Bahrain: 12
Belaurs: 8
Azerbaijan: 7
Afghanistan: 6
Sudan: 6
South Sudan, Republic of: 1
Header photo credit: W.R. Hammons