religious driven
I sent this to my friend Julen, who runs a pretty cool blog in Spanish about poverty and the third world and I actually want to post it here as well.
The most developer countries, with highest standards of living are less religious. The poll taken by Gallup indicates that people living in richest countries care less or almost nothing about religion hence the affluence is a extraordinary indicator (ie. Sweden, Japan).
Sub-Saharan countries and less developed ones such as Indonesia and part of South America are very religious. In many of these countries the fact that they have to cling on something plays a fundamental role. They have no money, no food and and the education they receive does not reach a minimum standard at all.
However, there is another reading about the influence of religion. In the US 65% of their citizens think it is relatively important. Southern states are very religious. West Coast and North-Atlantic areas are less.
Since I am not that clever and have no time to study all theories about God (absolutely not interested), I would rather say I am agnostic, so I actually like this graph. It does explain many of the problems in the modern World. Some of them inherently related to the clumsiness of the governments running the countries marked in green.
