International rankings of the United Kingdom

These are the international rankings of the United Kingdom.

Indexes grouped by topic

Index	Rank	Countries reviewed
Economy
Human Development Index 2023	13 2	192
Index of Economic Freedom 2023	28	167
Inequality adjusted Human Development Index 2023	13 1	169
OECD Better Life Index 2020	14	40 [ citation needed ]
Legatum Prosperity Index 2015 [1]	10	142
Index of Public Integrity 2016 [2]	6	105
Globalization Index 2015		207 [ citation needed ]
Gallup gross median household income 2013	19	131 [ citation needed ]
Median equivalent adult income 2009–2014	19	35 [ citation needed ]
International Property Rights Index 2015	13	129 [ citation needed ]
Logistics Performance Index 2014 [3]	4	160
Networked Readiness Index 2014 [4]	9	144
Household final consumption expenditure per capita 2016 [5]	8	221
Ease of doing business index 2017	7	185
World Economic Forum 2017	7	138
Number of billionaires 2016	7	74
Global Innovation Index 2024 [6]	5	133
Politics and liberties
V-Dem Democracy indices 2023 [7]	22	179
Democracy Index (The Economist) 2019 [8]	14	167
Freedom House ranking of political rights 2016 [3]	8	195
Freedom House ranking of civil liberties 2016 [3]		195
Fragile States Index (Reverse ranking) 2016 [2]	17	178
Press Freedom Index 2016	38	180
State of World Liberty Index 2020 [9] [10]	12	187
World Index of Moral Freedom 2020 [11]	38	160
Corruption Perceptions Index 2015	10	175
Military
Global Peace Index 2017 [12]	41 6	163
Merchant Navy	10	39
Healthcare
Total health expenditure per capita 2015	17	188
Euro health consumer index 2017 [13]	15	35
Other
Global Gender Gap Report 2015	20	144
World Happiness Report 2017 [14]	19 4	157
Save the Children State of the World's Mothers report 2015 [15]	24	179
Wikipedia page edits 2013	4	155+

Geographical rankings

Metric	Rank	Countries reviewed	Details
Total Area	78	233	242,495 km2 (93,628 sq mile) including land and water
Length of coastline	18	196	12,429 km.
List of countries by population (United Nations)	21	233	67,530,172

References

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5. "Household final consumption expenditure per capita (constant 2010 US$) - Data". World Bank Data.
6. World Intellectual Property Organization (2024). "Global Innovation Index 2024. Unlocking the Promise of Social Entrepreneurship" (PDF). www.wipo.int. Geneva. p. 18. doi:10.34667/tind.50062. ISBN   978-92-805-3681-2 . Retrieved 2024-10-01.
7. Coppedge, Michael, John Gerring, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Staffan I. Lindberg, Jan Teorell, Nazifa Alizada, David Altman, Michael Bernhard, Agnes Cornell, M. Steven Fish, Lisa Gastaldi, Haakon Gjerløw, Adam Glynn, Allen Hicken, Garry Hindle, Nina Ilchenko, Joshua Krusell, Anna Lührmann, Seraphine F. Maerz, Kyle L. Marquardt, Kelly McMann, Valeriya Mechkova, Juraj Medzihorsky, Pamela Paxton, Daniel Pemstein, Josefine Pernes, Johannes von Römer, Brigitte Seim, Rachel Sigman, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Jeffrey Staton, Aksel Sundström, Eitan Tzelgov, Yi-ting Wang, Tore Wig, Steven Wilson and Daniel Ziblatt. 2021. "V-Dem [Country–Year/Country–Date] Dataset v11.1" Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Project. https://doi.org/10.23696/vdemds21.
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11. Álvarez, Gloria; Kotera, Yasuhiro; Pina, Juan (July 2020). "World Index of Moral Freedom WIMF 2020" (PDF). www.fundalib.org. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
12. "Global Peace Index". Vision of Humanity. Institute for Economics and Peace. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
13. Professor Arne Björnberg, Ph.D (29 January 2018). "Euro Health Consumer Index 2017" (PDF). Health Consumer Powerhouse. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
14. Report, World Happiness (20 March 2017). "World Happiness Report 2017".
15. "Save the Children State of the World's Mothers report" (PDF). savethechildren.org.