For my first data point i chose who has better personal hygeine.
first i found each country's total exports of deordorant and soap, then
divided both these numbers by the population of the respective country
and added them. then i multiplied them by the average liters of water
per day divided by 100. Thailand barely edges Argentina out in hygiene.
Argentinadollars per person (dpp) spent on deodorant- 1.9
dpp on soap- 2.6 liters of water used- 255 total hygiene rating= 11.25 |
Thailanddollars per person (dpp) spent on deodorant- .7
dpp on soap- 8.4 liters of water used- 165 total hygiene rating=14.56 |
snapshot analysis
it was hard to gauge how much money each country spent on certain products because the value of them is different. I decided to go with each country's total imports of each item. this could potentially not be a great way to measure if either my countries had a large personal hygiene business and didn't need to import as many things from other countries. Originally i thought that Argentina would be victorious, however the tides changed when i measured Thailands soap imports which were significantly higher than Argentina. if i had measured soap consumption instead of imports it would have been a more accurate graph because of how commodity chains sometimes manufacture in one place and then ship the manufactured good away to another.