The Henry Jackson Society in U.K. is a thinktank research about foreign countries problem. According to them, the world’s most influential countries are ranked like this, 1st US, 2nd UK, 3rd China, 4th France, 5th Germany, 6th Japan, 7th Canada, 8th Australia, 9th India and 10th Russia. An interesting point is this announcement was Australia takes higher rank than Russia, one of the G8 countries.
The Henry Jackson Society use 33 indicators and 1,240 datasets to evaluate the nation’s performance. James Rogers, the study’s chief analyst, said that Australia has several merits, such as, solve the international conflict, cultural assets, level of democracy, technology lever, and national system. To be specific, Australia stays in Anglosphere and representative of south hemisphere area. And, a stable economic system and political system makes Australia strong and safe. The cultural asset also has a good score.
Australia population in 2018 is 25 million, ranked 54th in the world. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is 132 million US dollar, ranked 13th in the world and per capita is 53,700 US dollar. During this period, Globalfirepower.com, one of the army power estimating institute, evaluate that Australia has 21st army power in the world.
Top 20 countries of ‘World’s most influential countries’ are;
11st South Korea, 12nd Italy, 13rd Brazil, 14th South Africa, 15th Argentina, 16th Indonesia, 17th Turkey, 18th Mexico, 19th Saudi Arabia, and 20th Nigeria.
