The 20 Most Miserable Countries In The World

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Eric Platt | Dec. 3, 2012, 9:19 AM | 354,756 |

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As the Greek economy deteriorates further, the country's people have grown despondent over a lack of leadership and failed austerity measures.But on a list of the most miserable countries in the world, Greece wouldn't even crack the worst 50.

The misery index, a crude economic theory created by Arthur Orkum, sums a country's unemployment and inflation rates to assess conditions on the ground (the higher the number, the worse off a country is).

The reasoning: you can tell a great deal about an economy by a soaring jobless rate and a population that can afford less and less of required goods.

Business Insider totaled the figures for 197 countries and territories - from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe - to compile the 2012 Misery Index.

Note: Results are based on CIA World Factbook data, which estimates figures for countries and territories that do not have reliable local reporting agencies.



#20: Iran

AP/Vahid Salemi

Misery index score: 37.8%
CPI inflation: 22.5%
Unemployment: 15.3%
Source: CIA Factbook


#19: Afghanistan

White House

Misery index score: 42.7%
CPI inflation: 7.7%
Unemployment: 35.0%
Source: CIA Factbook


#18: Gaza Strip

AP Photo/Hatem Moussa

Misery index score: 45.0%
CPI inflation: 5.0%
Unemployment: 40.0%
Source: CIA Factbook


#17: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Adam Jones via Flickr

Misery index score: 47.1%
CPI inflation: 3.8%
Unemployment: 43.3%
Source: CIA Factbook


#16: Swaziland

Swaziland landscape
Wikimedia Commons

Misery index score: 48.0%
CPI inflation: 8.0%
Unemployment: 40.0%
Source: CIA Factbook


#15: Marshall Islands

AP Photo/Richard Vogel

Misery index score: 48.9%
CPI inflation: 12.9%
Unemployment: 36.0%
Source: CIA Factbook


#14: Haiti

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Misery index score: 49.9%
CPI inflation: 9.3%
Unemployment: 40.6%
Source: CIA Factbook


#13: Kenya

Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Misery index score: 51.0%
CPI inflation: 11.0%
Unemployment: 40.0%
Source: CIA Factbook


#12: Senegal

Misery index score: 51.4%
CPI inflation: 3.4%
Unemployment: 48.0%
Source: CIA Factbook


#11: Lesotho

International Rivers on flickr

Misery index score: 52.2%
CPI inflation: 7.2%
Unemployment: 45.0%
Source: CIA Factbook


#10: Belarus

AP Images

Misery index score: 53.4%
CPI inflation: 52.4%
Unemployment: 1.0%
Source: CIA Factbook



#9: Kosovo

Getty Images

Misery index score: 53.6%
CPI inflation: 8.3%
Unemployment: 45.3%
Source: CIA Factbook


#8: Nepal

Taylor Weidman/The Vanishing Cultures Project

Misery index score: 53.8%
CPI inflation: 7.8%
Unemployment: 46.0%
Source: CIA Factbook


#7: Yemen

ap

Misery index score: 55.0%
CPI inflation: 20.0%
Unemployment: 35.0%
Source: CIA Factbook


#6: Namibia

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Misery index score: 56.5%
CPI inflation: 5.3%
Unemployment: 51.2%
Source: CIA Factbook


#5: Djibouti

AP Photo/Amal Ismail

Misery index score: 66.0%
CPI inflation: 7.0%
Unemployment: 59.0%
Source: CIA Factbook


#4 Turkmenistan

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Misery index score: 75.0%
CPI inflation: 15.0%
Unemployment: 60.0%
Source: CIA Factbook


#3: Burkina Faso

AP Photo/Brahima Ouedraogo

Misery index score: 80.6%
CPI inflation: 3.6%
Unemployment: 77.0%
Source: CIA Factbook


#2: Liberia

Getty Images

Misery index score: 95.0%
CPI inflation: 10.0%
Unemployment: 85.0%
Source: CIA Factbook


#1: Zimbabwe

AP Images

Misery index score: 100.6%
CPI inflation: 5.6%
Unemployment: 95.0%
Source: CIA Factbook

 

[nngu007]

I'm HAPPY we are not on the LIST of MISERABLE country in the WORLD... OH OH KENYA IN...

Kwahiyo SISI Karibuni tutaingia sababu ya KUPIGANA POLISI na CHADEMA; POLISI na PONDA; POLISI na UAMSHO...

Tutaanza kutokuwa NCHI isiyo SALAMA... SIJUI tutaficha WATOTO wetu wapi? Sababu TUNA CHUKI kati yetu...

 

[malivawan10]

I wonder tanzania it is not in

 

[imaney]

hawa uamusho hawakuwepo miaka ya nyuma,au akina al shababi wamejihifadhi sasa? nchi yetu ilikuwa salamaa/////

 

[Mwali]

wamejiandikia tuu! hivi hawa watu wamesha fika Congo?
Au the country was so miserable hapakua na means kufika?

 

[mwaxxxx]

CIA wala unga tu siku hizi

 

[Lukolo]

Duh, nilipoona Kenya tu nikawa najua inayofuata Tanzania, nimeitafuta wee, hadi mwisho sijaiona. Ni ajabu na kweli. Inawezekana sisi tunajiona tupo miserable kumbe wengine wanatuona tuna unafuu.
Ila naungana na Mwali, hawa jamaa hawana jipya inawezekanaje Kenya na Zimbabwe ziwemo kwenye hii list halafu Somalia ikosekane, Sudani kusini isiwemo, Syria nayo isiwemo. Au hii ni factbook ya mwaka gani?

 

[Tai Ngwilizi]

hii list bila Congo Republic, Somalia, Ethiopia, Mexico, Burma etc kuwemo ndani, mimi wala siichukulii serious

 

[Baba V]

Tanzagiza haipo!!!??? kweli ccm ni mabingwa wa kuchakachua, unaweza ukakuta tumo kwenye top 20 ya blessed countries in the world

 

[Watu8]

Hiyo list inabidi kuiongezea kidogo hadi 25 tu, nina uhakika hatutakosekana

 

[Capt Tamar]

Upuuzi mtupu!! Eti worldfactbook!!kwa hiyo kenya ni miserable zaidi kuliko syria?kuliko congo?somalia je? Waondoe togwa lao limechacha.

 

[PSM]

Naona tz imesahaulika!

 

[Fabolous]

CIA ni waongo wakubwa. Kuna nchi zimeonewa katika hii list mfano Namibia hata Swaziland.
India imeachwa kwa nini? Congo DRC je? Somalia, Sudan, Bangladesh, Iraq wameiharibu wao.

 

[Takalani Sesame]

Somalia haimo?!!!!! na DRC?

 

[the-true-wash]

Mbona zimbabwe pako poa sana... Wanafiki tu

 

[nngu007]

wamejiandikia tuu! hivi hawa watu wamesha fika Congo?
Au the country was so miserable hapakua na means kufika?

Hapana CONGO - KUNA MADINI kwahiyo kwanini waitaje? Watachotaje hayo MADINI?

 

[Ngongo]

Somalia na Congo hazimo hii list imechakachuliwa,ila nimecheka watani zetu wa jadi Kenya wamo ha ha ha ha wapi Nairoberry Kenyan livefire Mwali

 

[Mwali]

Somalia na Congo hazimo hii list imechakachuliwa,ila nimecheka watani zetu wa jadi Kenya wamo ha ha ha ha wapi Nairoberry Kenyan livefire Mwali

Lazima hii list imechakachuliwa.
Kenya iwemo Tanzania ikose?

 

[Godwishes]

Inawezekana,bt naona as if tZ imesahaulika.Ile Mungiki naic ndo imeingiza Kenya kwenye list

 

[Honolulu]

Kwa utawala huu wa Kikwete unaoendekeza udini, Tanzania hivi karibuni itaingia kwenye list!