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26th Oct 2016

Ireland is better than the rest of the world at one particular thing

Ireland surprised us

JOE

We’re calling bulls**t.

Hey look, everyone has something they’re good at and similarly every country in the world is renowned for being the best at something.

You might think that Irish people are the best at having the craic, being extremely nice and using our famous gift of the gab, but none of these ranked at the top of this graph.

Ireland tops the polls as the number one country for working conditions. Whoop-de-f**king-do!

The map was compiled by data journalist and information designer David McCandless and the results are very interesting, especially since our neighbours from across the Irish Sea are topping the charts for the most billionaires.

Sadly,  the US wins the award for the most amount of spam emails sent and China tops the polls for the most jailed journalists.

Sadly not every country made the list due to either space or the fact that they didn’t top the polls for anything.

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Check out all the data HERE.

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