Monday Trivia #144 [Randy Harris wins!]

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1. Should I do a Tuesday hint, or do people want to make an attempt first?Report

   1. Hint, please!Report

2. Tuesday Hint: above are the 34 OECD nations arranged in a certain order. If I were to include a few other countries, the list would look like this:

   Indonesia, South Korea, China, Turkey, India, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Portugal, Japan, Italy, Spain, Austria, Luxembourg, Germany, Finland, Switzerland, Australia, France, Slovenia, Greece, Belgium, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Canada, Iceland, Sweden, United States, Poland, Norway, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Hungary, Slovak Republic, South Africa, RussiaReport

3. Domesticity of the work force? That is to say, the number of employed workers who are natural-born citizens of the country?Report

   1. Or perhaps the other way, percent of the adult workforce working in other countries.Report

4. Renewable energy?Report

5. Thursday hint:

   The list represents a change in something over a certain time period.Report

   1. Does the delta involved include figures both above and below zero?

      Now I’m thinking it’s GDP growth, with economically growing countries listed first and recessionary countries listed towards the end; somewhere in between (not necessarily the middle!) would be countries that are roughly stagnant.Report

6. Increase in life expectancy?Report

   1. Well done. Here is the relevant source: http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/health_glance-2011-en/01/01/g1-01-01.html?contentType=&itemId=/content/chapter/health_glance-2011-4-en&containerItemId=/content/serial/19991312&accessItemIds=/content/book/health_glance-2011-en&mimeType=text/html

      There are a lot of interesting data in there!Report

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