Some of those countries in the bottom ten have quite large populations and land areas too. They are also desperately poor, with inadequate infrastructure, corru

Some of those countries in the bottom ten have quite large populations and land areas too. They are also desperately poor, with inadequate infrastructure, corrupt ineffectual governments, and lack a substantial civil society willing & able to put pressure on the government to implement the necessary developmental changes & reforms necessary for their country to develop and to bring up the necessary living standards.