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Binary indicator: 1 indicates yes; 0 indicates no. World Bank indicator.

📅 2017📏 yes/no (1=yes)117 entries

Oceania · 4

Americas · 22

Asia · 34

Europe · 32

Africa · 25

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Every dot is one country, placed by its value (yes/no (1=yes)); the vertical bar marks each row’s median. Rows are world regions, ordered by their median. Hover a dot for its name.

🇦🇷Argentina

Yes

🇦🇲Armenia

Yes

🇧🇩Bangladesh

Yes

🇨🇴Colombia

Yes

🇨🇷Costa Rica

Yes

🇭🇷Croatia

Yes

🇪🇪Estonia

Yes

🇫🇯Fiji

Yes

🇫🇮Finland

Yes

🇬🇪Georgia

Yes

🇬🇹Guatemala

Yes

🇭🇳Honduras

Yes

🇭🇰Hong Kong

Yes

🇮🇩Indonesia

Yes

🇯🇵Japan

Yes

🇰🇿Kazakhstan

Yes

🇱🇻Latvia

Yes

🇱🇹Lithuania

Yes

🇱🇺Luxembourg

Yes

🇲🇾Malaysia

Yes

🇲🇻Maldives

Yes

🇲🇽Mexico

Yes

🇲🇩Moldova

Yes

🇲🇪Montenegro

Yes

🇳🇿New Zealand

Yes

🇵🇰Pakistan

Yes

🇵🇾Paraguay

Yes

🇵🇪Peru

Yes

🇷🇺Russia

Yes

🇰🇷South Korea

Yes

🇹🇷Türkiye

Yes

🇬🇧United Kingdom

Yes

🇺🇾Uruguay

Yes

🇿🇲Zambia

Yes

🇿🇼Zimbabwe

Yes

🇦🇫Afghanistan

🇦🇱Albania

🇦🇴Angola

🇦🇺Australia

🇦🇹Austria

🇦🇿Azerbaijan

🇧🇸Bahamas

🇧🇭Bahrain

🇧🇪Belgium

🇧🇹Bhutan

🇧🇴Bolivia

🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina

🇧🇼Botswana

🇧🇷Brazil

🇧🇬Bulgaria

Highlights

As of 2017, Argentina ranks first with Yes, followed by Armenia (Yes) and Bangladesh (Yes).

The top two are virtually level: Argentina and Armenia differ by less than 1%.

Across 117 countries and territories, values run from Yes (Argentina) to No (Vietnam), with a median of No.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 3 from the Americas, 3 from Asia, 3 from Europe and 1 from Oceania.

Source: World Bank Open Data, 2017. Unit: yes/no (1=yes).

Source: World Bank Open Data · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 17, 2026

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