http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/03/us-index-global-progress-idUSBREA3203R20140403

http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/data/spi

I downloaded the data. Entered GDP per capita IMF12, LV's national IQs, Islam rate. They calculated a summed up score themselves, not sure how, but i ran a PCA and extracted the factors. There is a socioeconomic g factor at the world level too, 41.4% of variance.

Who wants to write this up with me?

I have expanded the project. There are many of these quality of country type indexes. I want to collect them all into one large dataset. This is not so easy to do manually as the datasets have nonperfect overlap. We (me and Bo) have written code that can merge such datasets automatically to ease the building of the megadataset.