This, combined with a low ranking in the Gender Gap report (114th), puts it in the top 15 of Movehub's list. Iran Like Pakistan, Iran has a poor record in the Gender Gap Report, placing in the bottom six behind Chad, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. It is the little interior country in southern Africa, home to 1.1 million people, and the official languages are Swazi and English. The most liberal countries in the world proved to be Iceland, Finland, and Sweden. Tied with 91 - Bahamas, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Lithuania, and Taiwan The tenth spot on the world's most free countries includes a few entries from the Caribbean, as well as one in northern Europe and one in east Asia. The country has also experienced massive instability in the last three decades because of armed conflict. Benin Corruption is rife in Benin, which ranks among the world's poorest countries. NPR's Frank Langfitt reports from Dublin; there have been calls for this change for many years. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Social conservatism is a political philosophy and variety of conservatism which places emphasis on traditional power structures over social pluralism. Ethiopia has a population of 117 million people and is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa. While Scandinavian countries dominate the top 10, the results throw up some surprises. Put simply, conservativism is a way of thinking that seeks to maintain the status quo rather than attempting solutions that may or may not improve a situation. Turkey Unsurprisingly, Turkey is one of the least safe countries in the world right now, and received low scores for personal safety, political freedom and tolerance of immigrants in the Social Progress Index. Conservativism in the United States, for instance, appears quite different from conservativism in Afghanistan, where women are oppressed and Christians are persecuted, or Eswatini, where the king has more than a dozen wives. On economics, there are splits on whether corporations make a fair amount of profit and if taxes should be raised on the wealthy. Bunbury's the author of a series of books about the country's changing culture called "Vanishing Ireland." The researchers ranked 149 countries out of 100 in various categories, and discovered that New Zealand was the most sociable country.