Most average country?

[Peravdia]

What is the most average country on the planet? I'm thinking turkey, but I'm not sure.

[Quartia and Karafuto]

My first choices would've been Pakistan or Romania. Or maybe one of the post-Soviet nations, those are all very average.

[Echo Chamber Thought Police]

Ukraine

[Destyntine]

I’m going to say Argentina or Chile. They seem very average.

[Barlyy]

What is the most average country on the planet? I'm thinking turkey, but I'm not sure.

Turk here, and Turkey is definitely not average. I'd say Belarus or maybe Kazakhstan.

[Quartia and Karafuto]

The reason I'd say not Turkey is because its timeline goes back over 5000 years - more than pretty much any other nation - and it's more ethnically and genetically diverse than most. Also being responsible for the third-largest genocide in history isn't average.

I’m going to say Argentina or Chile. They seem very average.

These aren't the best examples, they're more right-wing than most nations, also any post-colonial state won't be very average because they all have the "natives vs. settlers" conflict that Old World nations don't have in the same way.

Ukraine

I'd say Belarus or maybe Kazakhstan.

Yep, all the post-Soviet states, those were ones I was thinking of. Also the Baltic states, especially Lithuania.

[Chan Island]

That is an absurdly broad question that is impossible to narrow down without at least defining what you mean by 'average'.

What is average? Do you mean as in its population? Or the geography? Or the economy, history, ethnic group, weather, government system? Or are we asking what is the most centrist country, in which case we must ask what exactly the left-right spectrum is? And how are we looking into that?

Not to mention that all of the examples already listed in this thread have some extraordinary, unique feature to them. Ex-Soviet states in eastern Europe for example are majority white, which constitute less than a 7th of the world's actual population. That is unusual already. They also spent decades under communism and were in the Eastern Bloc, which had considerably fewer people and even land as compared to the west (and it would have been even more drastic if China wasn't there).

[Rusozak]

Well if you're going by the average human being as your measure of what country is the most "average", China or India just by population.

[Western Fardelshufflestein]

What is the most average country on the planet? I'm thinking turkey, but I'm not sure.

Turk here, and Turkey is definitely not average. I'd say Belarus or maybe Kazakhstan.

Can't be Belarus. I know very little about it, by I know they drink the most alcohol per capita. Definitely not average. (Belarus, are you guys okay?)

[Valentine Z]

I usually tend to think of Laos. Not a lot of seem to hear or talk about Laos that much in a relativistic sense when compared to other countries.

[Chan Island]

Well if you're going by the average human being as your measure of what country is the most "average", China or India just by population.

Well, if we were going for most average country by population, then it would be the country in the middle per population.

... Which, doing a bit of googling, appears to be Finland. 116th most population in the world, out of 233 listed countries on wikipedia.

[Western Fardelshufflestein]

Well if you're going by the average human being as your measure of what country is the most "average", China or India just by population.

Well, if we were going for most average country by population, then it would be the country in the middle per population.

... Which, doing a bit of googling, appears to be Finland. 116th most population in the world, out of 233 listed countries on wikipedia.

Perhaps, but the Finnish language is so distinctive and difficult that it is far beyond average. Linguistically, Finland cannot be average. An "average" country in terms of language would probably be one that speaks English.

[Arisyan]

I usually tend to think of Laos. Not a lot of seem to hear or talk about Laos that much in a relativistic sense when compared to other countries.

At first it does appear to be very "average", however when looked into it is actually secretly one of the five "communist" countries in the world (i.e. a country ruled by a communist party).

My personal opinion is that it is Luxembourg. Very average, small and not a lot goes on there, though its size can be considered to be "non average"

[Quartia and Karafuto]

Well, if we were going for most average country by population, then it would be the country in the middle per population.

... Which, doing a bit of googling, appears to be Finland. 116th most population in the world, out of 233 listed countries on wikipedia.

This calculation could be done a different way, which is dividing the world population by the number of countries, and seeing which country is closest to 40.2 million people, and it is...... Ukraine.

[Repubblica Fascista Sociale Italiana]

Slovakia

[Dogmeat]

Indonesia.

[Heloin]

I usually tend to think of Laos. Not a lot of seem to hear or talk about Laos that much in a relativistic sense when compared to other countries.

That's because most people know nothing about the country. Long ago like it's southern neighbour Cambodia it was a major power in the region before becoming a border region for the Vietnamese and Thai to fight over. It's currently a Marxist-Leninist one party state like Vietnam but even stricter and the most bombed country on earth. This bombing has left 80 million unexploded bombs throughout a country of only 7 million people, with another death from this every seven days.

[Farnhamia]

What is the most average country on the planet? I'm thinking turkey, but I'm not sure.

I'm thinking you need to do more than a question and a statement. Average, based on what? Why do you think maybe Turkey? Were you out sick when they covered capitalization? That's how we do Opening Posts. Read some of the handy posts glued to the top of this forum to see how to do it.