The points system used to rank nations in this table is much different than the system used to rank the world cup nations.

The United Nations' annual Human Development Report ranks nations according to the availability of schools, clean water, medical care, life expectancy and political rights.

Monocle released its third annual Soft Power Survey in 2012, ranking nations according to their soft power; the amount of attractiveness and thus influence a country has within the world.

In 1999, Transparency International began publishing the Bribe Payers Index (BPI) which ranked nations according to the prevalence that a country's multinational corporations would offer bribes.

In contrast, Brazil, which was ranked eighth among 15 major developing nations for economic competitiveness five years ago, is burdened by an inflation rate of 1,800 percent and a tradition of political patronage.

Morocco's economy is the 61st largest in the world, according to the IMF, though its per-capita GDP is low compared to similarly ranked nations.

Exxon-Mobil alone can make more money than 2/3rd's of the World's Bank ranked nations.

Internationalization Index is a criterion used by the United Nations to rank nations and companies in evaluating their degree of integration with the world economy.

Like the HDI it can be used to rank nations in order of human welfare (development).

The Human Development Report 1998, like its predecessors, ranks nations according to the life they give their people rather than on the nation's traditional economic figures like per capita gross domestic product.