OVERALL RANKING: (TOTAL 142)

LEGATUM INSTITUTE | THE 2013 LEGATUM PROSPERITY INDEX COUNTRY FACTSHEET

DATA IN FOCUS:

110
ASIA PACIFIC RANKING
New Zealand 5 1 36 71 107 142
2009 2010 2011 2012

CAMBODIA
PERFORMANCE
Cambodia has risen ve places on the Prosperity Index, to 110th, since 2009. The country fell one place on the Social Capital sub-index to 135th because of a decrease in the number of people reporting that they trusted others and could rely on other people.
2013

SUB-INDICES

78

ECONOMY
5 year growth rate Condence in nancial institutions?* (% yes) Satisfaction with living standards?* (% yes)

Year

Data

Global Av.

2011 2012

4.4% 91.1%

2.7% 59.5% 58.2%

Australia 7 Singapore 18 Hong Kong 19 Japan 21 Taiwan 22 South Korea 26 Malaysia 44 Kazakhstan 47 China 51 Thailand 52 Mongolia 57 Sri Lanka 60 Vietnam 62 Uzbekistan 63 Philippines 66 Indonesia 69 Kyrgyzstan 80 Laos 92 Tajikistan 94 Nepal 102 Bangladesh 103 India 106 Cambodia 110 Pakistan 132

2012 48.9%

105

ENTREPRENEURSHIP & OPPORTUNITY

R&D expenditure (% of GDP) Mobile phones (per 100 ppl) Will working hard get you ahead?* (% yes) 2011 2012 2012 0% 132 97.1% 0.8% 103.9 81.0%

However, the country rose ten places on the Economy subindex, rising to 78th. This was the result of a fall in the number of non-performing loans and a decrease in ination.

This decline over ve years is, in part, due to the addition of 32 new countries in the 2012 Prosperity Index. In this instance, 14 of these new countries placed above Cambodia.

75

GOVERNANCE
Condence in the government?* (% yes) Condence in the judiciary?* (% yes) Government effectiveness 1 2012 86.6% 2012 2011 67.9% -0.75 51.5% 52.1% 0.04

57 100.5
%
BUSINESS START-UP COSTS (% OF GNI PER CAPITA)

106

EDUCATION
Gross secondary enrolment rate Satisfaction with education quality?* (% yes) Perception children are learning?* (% yes) 2008 44.4% 2012 92.0% 2012 95.1% 79.3% 66.3% 70.2%

THINKS ITS A GOOD TIME TO FIND A JOB

107

HEALTH
Self-reported health problems?* (% yes) 2012 38.8% 2011 2012 0.7 67.5% 23.9% 3.1 78.2% Hospital beds* (per 1000 people) Satisfaction with health?* (% yes)

27 61
%

BELIEVE ITS A GOOD PLACE TO LIVE FOR IMMIGRANTS

90

SAFETY & SECURITY

Human ight 2 Safe walking alone at night?* (% yes) Property stolen in past 12 months?* (% yes) 2012 2012 2012 7.7 63.7% 18.2% 5.3 62.8% 16.5%

SAY THEY CAN RELY ON OTHERS IN TIMES OF NEED

118

PERSONAL FREEDOM
Civil liberties 3 Tolerance for ethnic groups?* (% yes) Satisfaction with freedom of choice?* (% yes) 2012 2012 3 50.9% 4.7 68.0% 71.7%

78

BELIEVE BUSINESS/ GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION IS WIDESPREAD

2012 95.6%

135

SOCIAL CAPITAL
Volunteered time in past month?* (% yes) Donated to charity in past month?* (% yes) Helped strangers in past month?* (% yes) 2012 8.6% 20.1% 28.3% 47.9% 2012 44.7% 2012 20.9%

1:47
TEACHER TO PUPIL RATIO

NOTES: 1Gov. effectiveness: values range from -1.66 to 2.25, higher values indicate higher effectiveness. 2Human ight: values range from 1 to 10, higher values indicate higher levels of human ight. 3Civil liberties: values range from 1 to 7, lower values indicate lack of civil liberties. *Survey data are taken from Gallup World Poll .