LINKS

[1] https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-disposable-income.htm

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income

[3] http://www.hdr.undp.org/en/data

[4] United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Austria, United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.

[5] https://data.oecd.org/inequality/income-inequality.htm#indicator-chart

https://ballotpedia.org/Fact_check/Does_half_of_the_U.S._live_%22in_or_near_poverty%22%3F

[6] https://data.oecd.org/inequality/income-inequality.htm#indicator-chart

[7]  http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264261488-en

[8] https://www.epi.org/publication/usa-lags-peer-countries-mobility/  (15 country comparison)

[9] https://www.epi.org/publication/ib339-us-poverty-higher-safety-net-weaker/  (18 country comparison)

[10] https://data.oecd.org/socialexp/social-spending.htm#indicator-chart  (as a % of GDP)

[11] http://hdr.undp.org/en/composite/GII

[12] www.oecd.org/governance; https://doi.org/10.1787/gov_glance-2017-en

[13]  https://data.oecd.org/earnwage/gender-wage-gap.htm

[14] https://data.oecd.org/inequality/violence-against-women.htm

[15] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/28/15881246/drug-overdose-deaths-world

[16] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/28/15881246/drug-overdose-deaths-world,

http://www.unodc.org/wdr2017/en/maps-and-graphs.html

[17] https://www.businessinsider.com/countries-largest-antidepressant-drug-users-2016-11 (15 countries in sample)

[18] https://www.economist.com/united-states/2014/12/11/dont-shoot

[19] https://data.oecd.org/healthstat/suicide-rates.htm

[20] https://www.businessinsider.com/oecd-homicide-rates-chart-2015-6, https://www.economist.com/united-states/2014/12/11/dont-shoot

[21]  http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264261488-en, https://www.economist.com/united-states/2014/12/11/dont-shoot

[22] http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264261488-en

[23] https://epi.envirocenter.yale.edu/2018/report/category/hlt

[24] http://data.footprintnetwork.org/#/

[25] https://data.oecd.org/air/air-and-ghg-emissions.htm

[26] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenhouse_gas_emissions_per_capita

[27] https://data.oecd.org/agroutput/meat-consumption.htm

[28]  https://www.statista.com/statistics/263156/water-consumption-in-selected-countries/ (10 country comparison)

[29] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/04/18/unicef-u-s-kids-worse-off-than-many-of-their-western-counterparts/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6813a812f657

[30] https://data.oecd.org/healthstat/infant-mortality-rates.htm#indicator-chart

[31] https://data.oecd.org/pisa/mathematics-performance-pisa.htm

[32]  https://data.oecd.org/healthstat/life-expectancy-at-birth.htm

[33] https://ourworldindata.org/mental-health

[34] https://doi.org/10.1787/health_glance-2017-en

[35]  https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm

[36] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index

[37] https://read.oecd-ilibrary.org/governance/government-at-a-glance-2017_gov_glance-2017-en#page221

[38] http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264261488-en

[39] http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264261488-en

[40] https://doi.org/10.1787/gov_glance-2017-en

[41] https://data.oecd.org/oda/net-oda.htm#indicator-chart

[42] http://internationalcomparisons.org/political/treaties.html (12 countries in comparison)

[43]https://www.sipri.org/media/press-release/2018/global-military-spending-remains-high-17-trillion

[44] https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2018-03/fssipri_at2017_0.pdf