Let us take a moment and explain why combining multiple measurements into a single “consensus” estimate produces better results. Based on our calculations the list of the 25 most racist countries in the world are presented below. It is highly likely that the rankings would be different if these and other excluded countries were part of the survey. To be fair, the dataset covers only 61 countries and countries like Israel, Syria, or Austria weren’t part of the original survey. We ranked each country based on each of these questions and calculated the average rankings. The second question was more direct: how frequently do racist behavior occur in your neighborhood? Obviously the responses are subjective but we calculated the percentage of people who didn’t say “not frequently at all” and used it as an indicator of racism. A “no” answer is assumed to indicate racist feelings. In the first questions respondents were asked whether they would like having people from another race as neighbors. In order to calculate the most racist countries in the World we calculated rankings based on two questions. The database contains survey results from 60 countries and covered nearly 85,000 respondents. This is the same data (and survey) you may find on other websites, however, we have the latest updated version of it which includes several other countries that weren’t in the database in 20. We downloaded the raw data from The World Values Survey covering the years 2010-2014.
