Guess the map 15: GDP or population?

[Kyriakos]

Estonia?
And would people air-travel that much within Brunei?

Estonia/Finland etc is also why I can't see the angle for (int) flights to capital.

 

[Akka]

Is white lowest or no data?

Lowest.

No right answer yet ^^

 

[Samson]

So Montenegro, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Moldova are all the lowest, and Serbia and Albania are the second highest. Interesting.

Is it geographical, like how mountainous or something.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Don't know the answer, but to me the key is UAE and French Guiana.

Something Western nations are strong in. China, Russia and Saudia Arabia are pretty strong in.

But UAE and FG are as strong as western nations in.

So, trolling around on Wiki, I learn the following (nothing to do with the map, just interesting in its own right):

The UAE is the only country in the world that has a Ministry of Tolerance,[114] a Ministry of Happiness,[115] and a Ministry of Artificial Intelligence.[116] The UAE also has a virtual ministry called the Ministry of Possibilities, designed to find solutions to challenges and improve quality of life.

Ministry of Possibilities!

Though for all that, there's this:

The annual Freedom House report on Freedom in the World has listed the United Arab Emirates as "Not Free" every year since 1999,

So maybe the Ministry needs to be a little more industrious!

 

[stfoskey12]

Oil consumption per capita?

 

[Akka]

Still not here yet.
And it's not about geographical features.

 

[Arakhor]

Random guess - is it about prize winning, such as Nobel laureates or Olympic medallists?

 

[Akka]

Nope, nothing about prizes.

 

[Tee Kay]

Malaysia seems to be leader in whatever this is. And interesting developments happening in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, South Korea, and Mexico.

I've got no clue, but all of them are upper middle income to lower high income newly industrialised or industrialising countries.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Could it be literacy rate? For a certain age group?

 

[Akka]

The idea is here, but nothing to do with literacy.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

So it's related to demographics?

 

[Tee Kay]

Engineering graduates per capita?

 

[Akka]

So it's related to demographics?

Yes.

Engineering graduates per capita?

No, but it's getting slightly closer (slightly).

 

[Samson]

Number of "good" universities, for some value of good.

 

[Qactus]

Pretty sure it's the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index. I picked up the lead of the previous posts and googled education together with countries that stood out. Education Index was not quite it, but from that Wikipedia article the HDI was linked, of which the Education Index (together with life expectancy and gross national income per capita) is one component.

 

[Arakhor]

It's called "guess the map" for a reason, Qactus.

 

[Qactus]

You're right, my bad, I was curious and getting ahead of myself. Shouldn't have posted. Open stage if it's correct

 

[Akka]

It's not that ^^
(neither the university)

Getting colder compared to previous guesses actually.

 

[lymond]

Is it related to the interwebs? Internet usage?