1)
Colombia 7.45
2)
Portugal 7.30
3)
Serbia 7.22
4)
Russia 6.97
5)
Italy 6.90
6)
Croatia 6.82
7)
Venezuela 6.80
8)
Romania 6.70
9)
Dominican Republic 6.65
10) Moldova 6.65
11) Philippines 6.62
12) Macedonia 6.55
13) Thailand 6.47
14) Slovakia 6.45
15) Belarus 6.40
16) Greece 6.25
17) Czech Republic 6.25
18) Malaysia 6.25
19) Bulgaria 6.17
20) Argentina 6.12
21) Mexico 6.10
22) Ireland 6.10
23) Japan 6.10
24) Canada 6.10
25) New Zealand 6.07
26) Cuba 6.07
27) Ukraine 6.07
28) Poland 6.05
29) Brazil 6.02
30) Costa Rica 6.02
31) Taiwan 5.97
32) Qatar 5.92
33) China 5.85
34) Germany 5.80
35) UAE 5.70
36) Malta 5.65
37) Belgium 5.62
38) Latvia 5.57
39) Cape Verde 5.47
40) South Africa 5.47
41) Norway 5.45
42) Algeria 5.45
43) Singapore 5.45
44) Lithuania 5.42
45) France 5.35
46) Sweden 5.27
47) Hungary 5.27
48) Slovenia 5.22
49) Netherlands 5.20
50) Mongolia 5.17
51) Tunesia 5.15
52) Spain 5.12
53) Turkey 5.07
54) Switzerland 5.02
55) Hong Kong 5.00
56) Western Sahara 4.97
57) Dominica 4.97
58) USA 4.95
59) Montenegro 4.80
60) Austria 4.75
61) Jersey 4.62
62) Finland 4.52
63) Australia 4.50
64) Luxemburg 4.40
65) Chile 4.37
66) UK 4.32
67) Morocco 4.27
68) Vietnam 4.27
69) Gibraltar 4.27
70) Kenya 4.25
71) Honduras 4.10
72) Peru 4.10
73) Bolivia 3.90
74) Kyrgyzstan 3.82
75) Estonia 3.67
76) Namibia 3.62
77) Panama 3.57
78) Saint Kitts and Nevis 3.20
79) Ecuador 2.95
80) Vatican 2.40*
(40 women from each country; each woman
rated 1 to 10; country's score computed as the average of those)
* Vatican's score is based on 5 photos
only, because I couldn't find more.
Explanations
Background
It started as a part of another project but
soon acquired a life of its own. I mean, I was really curious to find out which
country in the world has the most beautiful women.
Method
How can one find out how beautiful is
an average woman in one or another country? It would seem that, short of
travelling to a country after country and checking out the women in person, the
most accurate means is by finding a number of photos of women on the Internet
and rating them.
As a matter of fact, there is an astounding
number of online discussions where one guy would post a couple of photos of,
say, Italian women, believing they will convince everyone that the Italian
women are the most beautiful in the world, and then another guy would say
"no, the Venezuelan women are the most beautiful in the world", and,
to "prove" it, post a couple of photos of Venezuelan women. That is
obviously not a way of getting anywhere. I tried to find something more
objective.
So I defined a certain search algorithm and
I defined requirements for picture quality, with the goal of finding photos of
40 women from each country without spending unreasonably much time.
Then I rated each woman with 1 to 10 points
and calculated the average for each country.
Choice of countries
My research includes only a minority of
the world's countries. That is because I only included countries that had at
least some interest for me as travel destinations. I mean, I couldn't care less if
Yemen, Guinea-Bissau or Suriname disappeared from the face of the Earth
tomorrow, so I would hardly have any motivation to search for photos of women
from there.
What is a country?
I count a territory as a country if it has
its own Internet domain suffix. Thus, Jersey, French Polynesia and Western
Sahara are countries; Martinique, Northern Cyprus and Kosovo aren't. That is
absolutely not to be interpreted as an expression of any political sympathies.
What is a woman?
Obviously, I discarded children. Whenever
the age was not indicated (and that was usually the case), I just looked at the
girl and if I even suspected that she might be a child, I discarded the photo.
I also discarded women who were clearly too
old to be considered sex objects.
Choice of photos
Admitting that a certain amount of
subconscious whoreness bias was probably just humanly unavoidable, I
consciously gave my best to discard photos only based on picture quality and
the woman's apparent age, rather than keep pretty ones and discard ugly ones.
I gave my best reasonable effort to
eliminate multiple photos of the same woman, but the Orientals were really
tough to tell apart, so I might have made some mistakes there.
I discarded celebrities, because I might
have been tempted to evaluate their reputation rather than beauty, and that
would have distorted the results. (By the way, it was weird how Google searches
for virtually any country's women kept turning out photos of Rihanna.)
In course of the selection process, I ended
up setting stricter quality standards for photos of professional models,
compared to regular people. There were two reasons to that. Firstly, the photos
of professional models were so numerous. Secondly, in some countries (most
strikingly, Thailand) the models you see on billboards and in magazines look
very different from the actual women you see on the street. So I didn't want
them to dominate too much.
The idea behind this survey was to give an
idea as to in which country a traveller or expat could hope to find the most
beautiful women. That's why, when a woman was from the country A and the photo
was taken in the country B, I counted the photo for the country B, even if the
woman was just travelling. By the way, I was amazed to notice how the Russian
whores seem to have found their way to most countries of the world. Well,
nothing doing. If Yekaterina lives in Malta, I count her as a woman in Malta.
Credibility
I gave my best reasonable effort to make
sure that the photos were actually from those countries. Of course, I had to
rely on the information provided on third party websites, so if they were
lying, that would have distorted the survey results, but there was nothing I
could do to avoid that. I believe it's reasonable to expect that most websites
don't lie about the origin of their photos. (I found several that do, and
blacklisted them, of course. Strangely enough, some websites that sell photos
lie shamelessly about the model's nationality.)
Obviously the ratings given to individual
women are totally subjective and reflect my personal taste only. I have seen
many astonishing examples of different men's having extremely different
preferences on women. There was no way to avoid this subjectivity, and I did
this for myself anyway. Should that be not good enough for someone, they are
welcome to conduct their own, more objective survey, if they so desire.
Comments on results
I rated the photos in random order, not
country by country, so when I began to add up the points, I had little idea of
what the outcome would be. Some results were quite surprising.
While wondering which country might turn out
to be the overall winner, I spent no thought at all on Colombia, but to think
of it, I've seen remarkably beautiful women from that country, so its victory
is not all that surprising.
What doesn't make sense at all, though, is
that Montenegro and Serbia should have so different results – or, for that
matter, Dominica and St. Kitts & Nevis. Or Australia and New Zealand.
The very low rankings of Bolivia, Peru and
Ecuador are not surprising, considering that they have large Amerind populations
and I find the Amerind women the least attractive of all. What doesn't fit in
at all, though, is Mexico scoring approximately as high as Cuba. The population
of Mexico is mostly Mediterranean-Amerind mix, and the one of Cuba is mostly
Mediterranean-Negro mix, and when I visited those two countries, I was amazed
at the ugliness of Mexican women compared to Cuban ones – or, for that matter,
to any other country where I've been. I mean, the German women just don't take
care of themselves, but the Mexican women are really ugly.
It might also rise an eyebrow or two that
Panama has scored so low, compared to Colombia and Costa Rica. That is
apparently because among the photos of Panamanian women on the Internet, too
many are pictures of Amerinds taken by the tourists, while the dominant group
in Colombia and Costa Rica are photos of chicks in search for US husbands. Well, can't be helped. I could hardly have begun to discard photos based on race, could
I?
(By the way, the tourists' obsession with
minority groups is probably also the reason why Namibia's score turned out so
much lower than South Africa's.)
I already mentioned Germany, the country full of ugly women, the country where people use in all seriousness the term
Schönheitswahn (beauty-mania), considering foreign women's pursuit of
beauty and foreign men's preference for beautiful women to be some sort of a
collective mental disease. So it's implausible that Germany would score clearly
higher than Austria and almost as high as the Czech Republic, whereas in the
real world the contrast between the Austrian and Czech women's beauty and the
German women's ugliness is striking. But again, nothing doing. I rated photos
individually and it would have been grossly unfair to penalise photos of German
women on the grounds that most German women are actually not that pretty.
Thailand and the Philippines scored almost
equally in this survey. In the real life, though, I assure you that the
Filipina women are very much more beautiful than the Thai women. There is
absolutely no comparison. Neither are Thai women any prettier than Vietnamese
women, it's rather the other way around. I also think that Mongolia should have
scored higher – at any rate, in the real world I've found Nothern Oriental
women clearly prettier on average than Southern Oriental ones. The reason to
those illogicalities is obvious – some Oriental countries are overflowing the
Internet with photos of hand-picked extraordinary beauties (often surgery-enhanced) who look nothing like the vast majority of the
women in those countries. So a random selection from Google search results is
not always a representative picture of a country's womanhood, especially so in
East Asia.
And last but not least, I was shocked by
the extremely low score of my native country, Estonia. I admit that I am thoroughly fed up
with the Estonian women's ever-increasing arrogance, but as to their physical beauty, I never
expected I would rate it so low
compared to that of Russian, Latvian and Swedish, and even Finnish women. Now, as I
mentioned, the German women look ugly because of their wide-spread disregard
and even contempt of personal style, but in Finland there seems to be an
outright feminist conspiracy with the aim of choosing one's clothes and
accessories so as to make oneself look as ugly as possible. There is no denying
that the Estonian women have gotten clearly uglier during the last decade or
two, obviously because they imitate the horrible personal style choices that
are fashionable in Finland. However, they are nowhere
near as ugly as the Finns themselves. This survey, though, says the opposite.
All in all, those illogical results suggest
that 40 women per country are too few. They also seem to suggest that an
Internet search engine is not the best means of acquiring women's photos for
such a purpose. Still, those results are better than nothing and they're the
best there are so far.
Future
I am planning to increase my database to
100 women from each country, and sooner or later I'm likely to add a couple
dozen more countries. I have ideas how to make sure the results won't be
dominated either by professional models or by minority groups fancied by
tourists.
However, I have many other things to do, so
I will only be spending a little time on this project occasionally when I feel
like it. Therefore, the new ratings won't be there any time soon.
I've been suggested that I sell my database
of photos. That is absolutely out of the question. The reason is very simple:
the photos are presumably copyrighted and it would be against the law for me to
distribute them. I would have to contact each photo's copyright owner and ask
him for a permission. That would obviously be a grossly unreasonable amount of
effort.
