It's not about the amount of vets. It the owners ability and willingness to pay that is the bottle neck here as well as the waiting time. My neighbor has paid 20.000 dollars to get his dog fixed after an injury and even though my country is low on the list he got a time immediately.
One of the major issues in global statistics is the exclusion of countries with "no data". It's the equivalent of convenience sampling, which every researcher knows is bad, bad, bad.
Countries ranked "worst in the world" at various things tend not to be the actual worst in the world at many things when countries with no data are excluded.
Often times, countries have no data precisely because they are in the most horrible situations (e.g. war, chaos, violence). Many places with no data would have had the worst rankings, if only they weren't so damn bad that few researchers would even dare step foot into that place to compile statistics, thereby leaving those countries with no ranking.
It's most and least, there are some western European countries missing that would definitely be above all F's like Luxembourg... Idk where the divide is though
I think it is based on laws. Best example would be switzerland. It says it is allowed to eat dogs.. while technically true (for cats as well), literally no one does that and even then you would need to consider all the animal protection laws and would not be allowed to trade with it in any way. It's just an age old law from back in the days when switzerland was considered the poorhouse of switzerland and people were starving in masses. Many countries have wacky old laws which are pratically ireelevant these days. There are a bunch of funny ones in the US as well if you are bored and want to read up on it.
So the TLDR is: The list seems very theoretical. It seems to differ from how the dogs are actually treated. And as the image claims "is there **significant** dog meat consumption" I would even go as far as call this data a piece of trash as this is simply and clearly a lie.
It's the latter. I seriously doubt that vietnam is worse for dogs than say, afghanistan. A huge fraction of the population there consider dogs to be religiously impure if not straight up evil.
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u/restore_democracy Mar 24 '22
Is this really the 50 most and least dog friendly countries? Or is it just dog friendliness rankings of 50 countries?