Poll Shows Cambodia Ranks High in ‘Global Suffering’

Cambodia ranked third worst in “global suffering” last year—behind Bulgaria and Armenia—a significant increase from 2011, when it ranked 14th worst, ac-cording to the worldwide polling group Gallup. A poll released last week on Gallup’s website says 34 percent of Cambodian respondents rated their lives as poor enough to be considered suffering in 2012. In 2011, that number was at 26 percent. The ranking places Cambodia third from the bottom of a list of 143 countries polled last year. In 2011, 146 countries were polled. Gallup says it interviewed about 1,000 people aged 15 and older in each country via telephone and face-to-face. …

Joshua Wilwohl
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