Which countries  are the  heavily indebted rich countries?
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United States, UK and Germany.
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I say Italy. Look at playes like Chovchenk, one of the richest playing in AC Milan. Italian Players are also the most expensive. Brazil sucks
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The poorest nations :\n \nTokelau  $ 1,500,000  1993 est.  \nNiue  $ 7,600,000  2000 est. \nTuvalu  $ 12,200,000  2000 est \n Saint Helena  $ 18,000,000  1998 est \nMontserrat  $ 29,000,000  2002 est. \nSaint Pierre and Miquelon  $ 48,300,000  2003 est.  \n\nThe porresrt people GDP/C (poorest is down) (this is average GDP/person)\n\nBurundi  $ 600  2005 est.   \nComoros  $ 600  2005 est.  \n Somalia  $ 600  2005 est.  \n Malawi  $ 600  2005 est.  \nGaza Strip  $ 600  2003 est.  \n East Timor  $ 400  2004 est.
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lack of will amongst the richest countries who use "corruption" as an excuse, though it is western corporations who are corrupting leaders abroad.\n\nthe biggest economy (US) only gives 0.13% of GDP as aid, despite all developed countries agreeing to give 0.7% (some european countries are on target, but not uk, france, germany or italy).
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Hi - you may have heard of the ONE campaign?  (go to www.one.org)  They have information & links to the following where you can find the figures you're looking for.\n\nTHE DEBT CRISIS\nwww.data.org\n\nFor decades, Sub-Saharan Africa, the poorest region of the world, was spending billions of dollars each year repaying debts to the world’s rich countries and international institutions such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. \n\nMany countries in Africa were spending more each year on debt than on health care and education combined. Why? Decades worth of loans had been given without much thought to how countries could pay them back. \n\nSome of the loans went to prop up bad governments or military regimes that are now long gone. Some of the loans were wasted by the governments that received them. Some were given by rich countries in ways that served their own self-interest. Skyrocketing interest rates and bad economic policies have multiplied these old debts over and over again. \n\nBetween 1970 and 2002 Africa received $540 billion in loans. Despite the fact that over that same period, African countries paid back $550 billion—$10 billion more than the original loans—at the end of 2002 they\nstill owed another $293 billion. Over the past few years, thanks to the efforts of those who contributed to the international Jubilee 2000 movement for debt relief, politicians have begun to respond to the debt crisis. \n\nIn 1999, the world’s richest countries came\ntogether to write off billions of dollars of poor countries’ debts through the World Bank and International Monetary Fund’s Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) program. The HIPC program provides debt relief to countries with good governments committed to fighting corruption and poverty and investing in the health and education of their people. \n\nThere are 38 countries currently enrolled in the HIPC initiative (32 of them in Africa) and so far 18 of them have completed the program have benefited from debt relief and have been able to channel that money into vertyreduction\nprograms; another 10 have begun the process and are receiving interim relief.\n\nThe problem is, though, that HIPC did not completely cancel countries’ debts and even after reaching their completion points, many countries were still spending too much money on debt, often taking on new loans to repay\nold loans. \n\nIn an effort to end this unending cycle of debt, the Finance Ministers of the world’s wealthiest countries agreed in June of 2005 to free the HIPC countries from 100% of their debts by canceling the debts owed to the\nWorld Bank, The IMF and the African Development Bank. \n\nIt also calls for a move from loans to grants for the poorest countries in the world in an effort to end to vicious cycle of debt in which they have been entrapped. It will\nimmediately cancel $40 billion of debt for the 18 countries that have already reached their completion point and will eventually result in $56 billion of debt cancellation once all 38 HIPC countries reach completion point. \n\nThe Finance Ministers also agreed to consider a debt deal for Nigeria even though it is not a HIPC country. Donors shortly thereafter announced a plan to use both donor resources and Nigeria’s own resources to cancel Nigeria’s outstanding debt; this is an important commitment because Nigeria has about $35b worth of debt and 95 million people living on less than $1 per day. \n\nThis debt deal is an important step in the fight against global poverty, but there are still other poor countries in need of debt cancellation so that they can better fight HIV/AIDS and extreme poverty.\n\nWhile debt cancellation alone will not generate all the resources needed by poor countries, the money freed up from\ndebt relief has consistently been put to good use; World Bank estimates show that poverty reducing expenditures will rise from previous levels of less than twice that of debt service to more than four tim
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Richest Countries in the World \nRank Country GDP - per capita \n1 Luxembourg $ 55,100 \n2 Norway $ 37,800 \n3 United States $ 37,800 \n4 San Marino $ 34,600 \n5 Switzerland $ 32,700 \n6 Denmark $ 31,100 \n7 Iceland $ 30,900 \n8 Austria $ 30,000 \n9 Canada $ 29,800 \n10 Ireland $ 29,600 \n11 Belgium $ 29,100 \n12 Australia $ 29,000 \n13 Netherlands $ 28,600 \n14 Japan $ 28,200 \n15 United Kingdom $ 27,700 \n16 France $ 27,600 \n17 Germany $ 27,600 \n18 Finland $ 27,400 \n19 Monaco $ 27,000 \n20 Sweden $ 26,800 \nhttp://www.aneki.com/richest.html\n\nPoorest Countries in the World \nRank Country GDP - per capita \n1 East Timor $ 500 \n2 Somalia $ 500 \n3 Sierra Leone $ 500 \n4 Malawi $ 600 \n5 Tanzania $ 600 \n6 Burundi $ 600 \n7 Congo, Republic of the $ 700 \n8 Congo, Democratic Republic of the $ 700 \n9 Comoros $ 700 \n10 Eritrea $ 700 \n11 Ethiopia $ 700 \n12 Afghanistan $ 700 \n13 Niger $ 800 \n14 Yemen $ 800 \n15 Madagascar $ 800 \n16 Guinea-Bissau $ 800 \n17 Zambia $ 800 \n18 Kiribati $ 800 \n19 Nigeria $ 900 \n20 Mali $ 900 \nhttp://www.aneki.com/poorest.html
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Well, it depends on how you define "wealthy"\n\nThere are several factors: Total GDP, Total GNP, GDP per capita, etc. that determine how "wealthy" a nation is...\n\nFor example, the United States of America might have the biggest GDP in the world, but a small country like Luxembourg might have the highest GDP per capita in the world.\n\nBut - recently - the United Nations ranked Norway is the world's richest nation.\n\nPersonally, taking an average of all the factors that make a country rich, I would say the USA is the richest country in the world.\n\n-Anand-
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None. Some, I think, are doing better than other...\nI would say Sweden, Norway, maybe Denmark and Iceland (they really give a lot of money per inhabitant to the rest of the world).\nBut even this attitude is selfish!
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why do you find it so surprising?  the US has over 30 million poor people....isnt it amazing?  the richest country in the world....
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10 Most Corrupt Countries in the World\n\nRank:\n1. Bangladesh  \n2. Chad  \n3. Haiti  \n4. Myanmar  \n5. Turkmenistan  \n6. Côte d'Ivoire  \n7. Equatorial Guinea  \n8. Nigeria  \n9. Angola  \n10. Democratic Republic of the Congo \n\n(3 Asian; 7 African)
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Years and years of borrowing massive amounts from the IMF and World Bank to build infrastructure (dams, power plants, schools, roads, etc.).  Decades of corrupt regimes that squandered and abscounded with billions upon billions.\n\nOnly recently, are many of these countries starting to get on their feet, but it took a great deal of political turmult to get there.  Uganda, for example, was a complete mess until Amin was overthrown and a new government installed.  They are prospering very nicely now.\n\nOther countries such as Ethopia, have been trashed by drought that killed their farming and rurual communities and plunged the cities into poverty.  That's a real mess.\n\nI could go on and on, but others are waiting.\n\nI hope this gives you some idea.
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France could be the richest.
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the previous answer misses out, Italy, Denmark, Austria,  Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Finland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Tunisia, and of course Russia. There's more, LIchtenstein, Luxembourg, San Marino, Serbia, Croatia, Albania, Macedonia, the list goes on. The Channel Islands, Sicily, Crete.
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Until you said indvidual freedom, I would have said China-- communism almost sounds nice. But no nation has all of those things except the Kingdom of Heaven, which is eternal.
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Richest Country Luxembourg\nPoorest Country East Timor\nNear near Abidjan of kenya aircraft crashed \nin 2012 solar eclipse appeared
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what about them? They're like the poor in any other country. And as pointed out by "blue", Iran isn't exactly the richest country.
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You can come to lots of different ways to answer this question.  I'll give in in GDP (Gross Domestic Product--the total economic output of a country in a year) divided by its population.  Using this formula, if we take the nominal GDP, the poorest country is Burundi, with a $90 per person GDP.  If we take the GDP adjusted for the cost of living in a country, it's East Timor, at $400 international dollars a person (an international dollar is how much a US dollar is worth scaled by its purchasing power)