Then you have pure islamic countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE which is the heaven for materialism and capitalism.
those are fake-muslim states and therefore, as you said, are heavens for materialism and capitalism.
And if it is ideal, why has all communist states failed and China turned into state capitalism (but communism for the people) and survived.
i can quote libya as being a most comfortable states, where either things were provided for free or at the lowest price.
i can quote syria, cuba... venezuela is progressing... ussr seems to have comfortable.
china is a sad case where materialism has taken over people's minds... the latest cell phone or video game machine is all it seems the youngsters want there... there was a recent pdf thread about video games started by a chinese member... this going away from socialism and into nationalism has led to inequalities in china, one hint of which is corruption.
china may be a superpower but it was nothing compared to the welfare state that was libyan jamahiriya.
And about the statistics, those are the latest census info. Maybe I am mistaken but its quite latest data.
the "professional" census methods are wrong and are tweaked to present lower numbers of the wrong things which really should have been highlighted.
for example, when have they ever made known to the world that indian male population is the highest of any society in history of the world... or, how many million female foetuses went missing since the americans introduced ultra sound scanners into india, or how many million went missing in the two millenia before that.