Website If It Were My Home was originally set up in 2010 "as a way to show the magnitude of the BP Oil Spill," according to its creator.

Its creator, Andy Lintner, then said that after having conversations with visitors to the site, he realised that "representing large facts in relation to a person's own home is much more revealing than a simpler presentation of facts" and that was how the new concept of If It Were My Home was born.

The website allows you to compare countries on indicators such as life expectancy, healthcare cost per capita, oil consumption, murder rates, etc.

Indicators are taken from official sources such as the CIA World Factbook, World Health Organisation and United Nations.

Here is how the comparison works:

Red means the other country is worse off, Green means the other country is better off, Blue means neither better nor worse off.

Very simply put, the more green a country has, the better it is than Singapore.

So let's see how Singapore compares to other countries:

Singapore vs Germany

Singapore vs Norway:

The next are the top five countries young Singaporeans would like to migrate to based on a 2011 paper by the Institute of Policy Studies:

Singapore vs Australia

Singapore vs United States

Singapore vs United Kingdom

Singapore vs Canada

Singapore vs Japan

And here are the comparisons with our immediate neighbours:

Singapore vs Malaysia

Singapore vs Indonesia

One last comparison of Singapore with a war-torn region like Syria:

These comparisons between countries are by no means the best measure of countries. Things like culture, food, language, cost of living, lovely scenery, awesome weather, size of homes, how easy it is to dabao prata at night are not considered.

Indeed, even the comparison of money spent on healthcare does not reflect the quality of healthcare.

Does being more likely to be jailed mean a more efficient police force or a population with less criminals? The numbers don't tell the full story.

Just take these comparisons as a way to broaden your perspective on things and play around with the website to see how things are like for people in other countries.

Have fun.

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