The News You Missed in 2021, From Every Country in the World (Part 2)

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[@Xathal]

Timestamps, part 2: 00:44 - Suriname 🇸🇷 01:10 - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 🇻🇨 01:40 - Tunisia 🇹🇳 02:05 - Maldives 🇲🇻 02:29 - Dominica 🇩🇲 02:57 - Fiji 🇫🇯 03:22 - Lebanon 🇱🇧 03:44 - Algeria 🇩🇿 04:07 - Moldova 🇲🇩 04:35 - Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 04:59 - Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 05:21 - Saint Lucia 🇱🇨 05:45 - Ecuador 🇪🇨 06:10 - China 🇨🇳 06:38 - Brazil 🇧🇷 07:09 - Colombia 🇨🇴 07:38 - North Macedonia 🇲🇰 08:03 - Armenia 🇦🇲 08:29 - Thailand 🇹🇭 08:52 - Peru 🇵🇪 09:20 - Antigua and Barbuda 🇦🇬 09:44 - Ukraine 🇺🇦 10:08 - Saint Kitts and Nevis 🇰🇳 10:34 - Mexico 🇲🇽 11:01 - Grenada 🇬🇩 11:27 - Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦 11:54 - Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 12:21 - Iran 🇮🇷 12:49 - Cuba 🇨🇺 13:12 - Albania 🇦🇱 13:39 - Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 14:03 - Seychelles 🇸🇨 14:36 - Mauritius 🇲🇺 15:03 - Serbia 🇷🇸 15:30 - Kuwait 🇰🇼 15:53 - Malaysia 🇲🇾 16:16 - Costa Rica 🇨🇷 16:48 - Georgia 🇬🇪 17:12 - Oman 🇴🇲 17:38 - Barbados 🇧🇧 18:08 - Bahamas 🇧🇸 18:40 - Panama 🇵🇦 19:09 - Bulgaria 🇧🇬 19:38 - Uruguay 🇺🇾 20:00 - Turkey 🇹🇷 20:29 - Belarus 🇧🇾 21:01 - Russia 🇷🇺 21:27 - Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 21:56 - Palau 🇵🇼 22:29 - Romania 🇷🇴 22:52 - Montenegro 🇲🇪 23:20 - Brunei 🇧🇳 23:45 - Argentina 🇦🇷 24:17 - Qatar 🇶🇦 24:49 - Croatia 🇭🇷 25:13 - Chile 🇨🇱 25:42 - Bahrain 🇧🇭 26:04 - Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 26:33 - Hungary 🇭🇺 26:55 - Slovakia 🇸🇰 27:21 - Portugal 🇵🇹 27:47 - Latvia 🇱🇻 28:15 - Andorra 🇦🇩 28:43 - Poland 🇵🇱 29:10 - Lithuania 🇱🇹 29:35 - Cyprus 🇨🇾 30:04 - Greece 🇬🇷 30:27 - United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪 30:54 - Italy 🇮🇹 31:17 - Estonia 🇪🇪 31:40 - Malta 🇲🇹 32:06 - Czech Republic 🇨🇿 32:27 - France 🇨🇵 32:51 - Spain 🇪🇸 33:14 - South Korea 🇰🇷 33:39 - Luxembourg 🇱🇺 34:04 - Slovenia 🇸🇮 34:32 - Liechtenstein 🇱🇮 35:00 - Japan 🇯🇵 35:24 - Israel 🇮🇱 35:50 - Austria 🇦🇹 36:14 - United States 🇺🇲 36:45 - Canada 🇨🇦 37:10 - New Zealand 🇳🇿 37:37 - Belgium 🇧🇪 38:00 - United Kingdom 🇬🇧 38:26 - Singapore 🇸🇬 38:58 - Finland 🇫🇮 39:22 - Denmark 🇩🇰 39:46 - Netherlands 🇳🇱 40:14 - Australia 🇦🇺 40:36 - Sweden 🇸🇪 40:56 - Germany 🇩🇪 41:21 - Iceland 🇮🇸 42:12 - Hong Kong 🇭🇰 42:40 - Switzerland 🇨🇭 43:03 - Ireland 🇮🇪 43:29 - Norway 🇳🇴 Happy new year, everyone. Be good. EDITS: - Thanks to: @TheAbele992 for pointing out a timestamp error for Ireland; @Fantomapp for pointing out the misspelling of Kazakhstan; @a sheep for the misspelling of Luxembourg @Patja for the wrong flag placement for Liechtenstein As ever, any and all corrections are welcome.

[@brookejon3695]

You're the hero we needed.

[@Raj-gr6dy]

Thanks man

[@SamiiRSMT]

@mr nobody Doing that is just going to get dislikes... oh wait. F**k YT for removing dislikes amount.

[@tanjoy0205]

Your the best !

[@TheAbele992]

Ireland is 43:03

[@unculturedswine7993]

Local news for me is my small US rural town installed two EV charging stations and a big commercial building that has been sitting vacant for a while has recently been bought by a semiconductor company to renovate the building into a CNC manufacturing building. It's expected to create a lot of jobs and put a lot of needed revenue into the city. Like many other small rural towns, when the mill shut down almost 15 years ago, it changed things economically and socially at a very rapid pace that we are only just recently beginning to heal from.

[@JaquaviousDamian]

Nice

[@mogradme8535]

Which semiconductor company?

[@op_s_lead]

But old people don’t want their “little” town to get big, even though that’s how our economy grows!!

[@evenfisher0188]

Nice

[@nathanlee6654]

In my small town, about as many businesses closed as opened, and our town is still in dept because we built a golf course. BUT OUR TOWN HAS A TESLA!!

[@aidanw9378]

Okay but Austria having an Only Fans for its nude sculptures might be my favourite news story ever

[@danielmcallahan]

For Austria I would’ve picked all the corruption in the ÖVP party and how there were 3 different prime ministers between October and December of 2021

[@Gizfreek]

@@danielmcallahan But that wouldn't be news we missed so I'm glad they went with the OnlyFans Story

[@danielmcallahan]

@@Gizfreek yeah you’re right

[@sebastiangorka200]

@@Gizfreek more like wendover being biased western countries get le quirky epeck reddit gold story, "bad guy countries" get some mumbo jumbo about le regime bad >:((( backed up by fucking nothing

[@efulmer8675]

Again, Western countries being corrupt was not a news story we were likely to have missed. I, for one, did not miss that story, so Wendover going with the OnlyFans story was more faithful to his own rules than going with the high profile story of Austrian corruption.

[@Danielisak]

Correction. The first ever double arm and shoulder transplant was performed in France, it is the patient who is Icelandic.

[@amitoj]

why bother, this channel spreads misinformation without understanding or source reviews. He just want views with catchy titles

[@aronseptianto8142]

@@amitoj my man, there's 189 news piece here

[@qaiser648]

@Mck Idyl dumb comment

[@lucasg6703]

@@amitoj examples?

[@wecare838]

@@amitoj every entity is biased. But calling out/amplifying a relatively neutral channel's supposed bias may, in turn, indicate the accuser's own (greater) ideological bias.

[@KinnyRiddle]

The strict adherence to the "UN-recognized countries" criteria means for the second year in a row, Taiwan is completely neglected. Even though you've bent them this year to include Hong Kong. Next year please adjust your criteria, Sam, as Taiwan is surely to appear more in the news this year and more difficult to ignore.

[@matiassanchez9251]

completely agree

[@Brenosakaguti]

The channel has a lot of videos about China, including "Why Chinese manufactory wins" and "Why China is so good at building railways", I guess he doesn't want to be on their bad side

[@Boringpenguin]

Even the disclaimer before the Hong Kong section is interesting enough. Just imagine if he didn't include that bit, how many wumao would appear from nowhere and destroy the comment section.

[@TheAltSter]

Same for Kosovo

[@biponacci]

If we’re doing territories I’d think Macau, Greenland, the Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau, French Polynesia, New Caledonia and far more should also be included

[@lolmaker777]

You should stop saying "A dutch court ruled" when you are talking about international law. Yes the international court is in the netherlands, but it is misleading to say that it is a dutch court as they are not ruling based on dutch laws.

[@danielheckel2755]

Are you sure it wasn't a dutch court judging Royal Dutch Shell?

[@wecare838]

I wonder how the tradition of international court in dutch arose and how every other country recognise that? Doesnt other countries challenge its legitimacy?

[@lolmaker777]

@@wecare838 it is an UN institution.

[@FATTYBONGRIPS]

@@wecare838 the hague

[@wecare838]

@@FATTYBONGRIPS hague what?

[@tung-hsinliu861]

As a Taiwanese not seeing Taiwan, kinda saw that coming but still disappointed. Social credit jokes aside, we should have been recognized years ago if China is not a superpower that chokes most nations' economies. We have an HDI of about 9.15~9.2 if anyone's curious, and should be well in the top 20~25. Edit: If Taiwan counts as a province of China, we have the highest HDI among all provinces. Even higher than Beijing and Shanghai, only lower than Hong Kong and Macao.

[@KinnyRiddle]

It's even weirder when Sam bent his own selection criteria so that Hong Kong could be mentioned this year.

[@Lighthammer18]

I'm glad to see there are a lot of people asking about Taiwan in the comments.

[@xorv9284]

"erratic buoy behaviour" is probably one of my favorite phrases now

[@2712animefreak]

The reason Switzerland is "late on inclusivity issues" stems simply from the fact that there is a very high threshold to legislative change. For example, giving women the right to vote required a constitutional amendment, and thus a referendum, on which only men could vote. That referendum needed not only the majority nationwide, but the majority in at least half of the cantons (states, Switzerland is a federal country) as well. That being said, the fact that the same-sex marriage was approved by a majority in every single canton is rather remarkable.

[@theosandell3972]

Correction for Sweden: Magdalena Andersson resigned after just 7 hours, not 12 :)

[@eken1725]

And she was inly elected. She wasn't officially pm then.

[@justsomeguy5103]

You could say she was the second person to become prime minister of Sweden for the second time this year!

[@gabrielzapata1813]

i can’t help but appreciate your transitions between stories. The word play is so smooth sometimes I miss that you changed countries!

[@tung-hsinliu861]

Funny that he includes Hong Kong but not Taiwan. Kinda interested in his political view points. Edit: Found out that it comes from the UN list. Still sad to see that they can include HK but not Taiwan. In reality China controls HK much more than Taiwan, but here we are.

[@bestduckyrblx2944]

as soon as hong kong finishes losing its sovereignty status you won´t see it here anymore.

[@youtubebrowsingaccount131]

it's based on HDI not something he made himself

[@anonymousanonymous31]

Based on the UN list, the UN doesn't recognise Taiwan

[@AshrakAhmed]

Well you can find so many issues if you want to, like how 9 out of top 10 country in the list is white majority too! Sam followed HDI from UN list, he didn't made it up! if you have problem go complaint to UN.

[@lucasaguilera24]

These videos are the best as I look forward to them at the end of each year. Thanks Sam from Wendover!

[@Dofri98]

The part about Iceland isn't really true, we didn't perform that surgery. He got that surgery in Lyon, France

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

He was Icelandic though, wasn't he?

[@Dofri98]

@@OtakuUnitedStudio The patient is Icelandic, the surgeon French. The way it's represented in this video it makes it sound like we are responsible for the surgery, which we aren't.

[@TheHylianBatman]

I always appreciate this series for keeping me updated on the world. I like to learn about things going on in other places.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

"A rare case of singularity in an ever-individual world" was the most beautiful way you could've ended this video. That sounds like it could be a John Green quote.

[@lucaswalcher8498]

22:45 Emanuel von und zu Lichtenstein is NOT "of Austria". Austria by law does not recognize any form of nobility. He is, as the name suggests, from Lichtenstein.

[@virtualtools_3021]

Poor Lichtenstein, always being forgotten by everyone else, and accidently invaded by Switzerland

[@virtualtools_3021]

@@jackback70 very very tiny landlocked country in Europe, tax haven

[@artisticbuilding6852]

While HDI is a very skewed way of looking at things, and it's annoying how Hong Kong was mentioned but not Kosovo, this yearly video series is so interesting and fun. I'm always happy to see it pop up!

[@notchhill9884]

Kosovo is not generally a recognized nation.

[@w.t.5136]

they mentioned fucking transnistria but not kosovo lol

[@notchhill9884]

@@w.t.5136 No, pridnestrovia didn't get an entry, it appeared in the Moldavia entry.

[@Luka-cu8ep]

What are you talking about, Serbia was mentioned.

[@notchhill9884]

@@Luka-cu8ep based

[@konstagold]

Should have included Taiwan

[@quack_og2639]

Based

[@SevenandForty]

Though I acknowledge your reasoning for not including Taiwan on this list, including Hong Kong while excluding Taiwan is really kind of a low blow. It is factually incorrect that Hong Kong is a sovereign state, and I don't see Hong Kong anywhere on the list of UN-recognized member nations. If you want to include them, include both or neither, if you're using your kind of reasoning.

[@aidenbooksmith2351]

Agreed. When I heard he's doing 196, I figured so: 193 members + the 2 observers and 1 more, I expected Taiwan or at least Kosovo But Hong Kong? Never in any list

[@Tenatic-X]

Kind of disappointed that Taiwan is not included in the 2021 or 2020 news you missed videos, yet Hong Kong is in these videos (counted as an autonomous region, like greenland). Will you be able to include Taiwan next year?

[@heisen-bones]

i'm pretty sure he included Taiwan in part 1

[@Tenatic-X]

@@heisen-bones it's not in the 2020 part 1 video. Country's population is around 23 million, close to Australia and North Korea. Taiwan's HDI is very high, ranking amongst the developed western countries but is not in 2021 part 2.

[@heisen-bones]

@@Tenatic-X oh damn. I assmued since it's not internationally recognized, he put it in part 1 along with Vatican and Nauru

[@Tenatic-X]

@@heisen-bones ah I see. The Vatican is internationally recognised as a country, since its recognised in the UN. Also it probably wouldn't make sense to put Taiwan there, given it has an hdi to rank it on the list.

[@heisen-bones]

@@Tenatic-X yeah he messed up big time there.

[@simplyepic3258]

I know you’re just going off of the official UN recognized countries, but I think you should include Taiwan separate from China next year.

[@kevinw4267]

I was waiting on Taiwan as well,

[@fierzo9152]

TAIWAN IS NOT A COUNTRY ❗❗❗❗❗

[@filip9564]

-1000 social credit score. Whatch out from John Xena when your sleeping. Especially if youre a billionaire

[@filip9564]

@@fierzo9152 +1000 credit score. Also daily reminder that nothing happend at tianamen square.

[@-TheLynx-]

@@fierzo9152 But it is a country, and the better China. :)

[@GeorgeLe]

No Taiwan? How disappointing

[@masonsarchivedchannel]

I no

[@Xike]

Once again, for yet another year, the 23+ million people on the island nation of Taiwan cease to exist. more like *every country in the world

[@Rowboo]

As a Pole I can confirm theres coal EVERYWHERE. Trucks with coal, piles of coal in front of houses, coal in the basement and there are literally 2 coal powered powerplants next to the village I live in

[@thechlebek901]

and coal in my lungs :D

[@januszkurahenowski2860]

Coal is also the official currency, we pay for our groceries with pieces of coal. Also when a man wants to show affection for a woman he takes out a piece of coal from his pocket and gifts it to a woman, polish women absolutely adore it and think that coal is the true symbol of love, not diamonds (which are also carbon but worse because you can't use them to make electricity and heat your apartament). We also eat coal as a snack, when we get a bit hungry we just take a bite of a piece of coal just like everyone else would take a bite of an apple. Coal is extremely versatile and everybody loves it. This information is 100% true, there is no reason to ask anyone else to confirm it. They're gonna be offended that you're doubting our national devotion to coal.

[@morzee94]

This is amazing work! I check multiple news outlets daily and this video taught me so many things that I’ve never heard of. I can’t begin to imagine the hours you must have put into this. Thank you 🙏🏼

[@ZeusFaucon]

you forgot Taïwan.

[@ZetaPyro]

I see that Sam fixed the error in the Nebula upload of this. At 26:58 of the Nebula version, he said "Slovenia", but in the YT upload he redid the audio to correctly say "Slovakia".

[@DjSamMuniz]

Damn you really watching a 40 minute educational video twice?

[@ZetaPyro]

@@DjSamMuniz No, I just skipped ahead to see if he fixed it or not

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

That's a pretty seamless edit.

[@baldurelitraustason662]

41:36 the procedure wasn't done in Iceland it was done in France but the man was Icelandic

[@Noukz37]

I'm not surprised that my country (Bosnia) is mentioned with bad news, but I am shocked how low it is on the HDI list... So many countries that I thought of as "worse off" seem to be not.

[@naprimjer6593]

Also calling it "country with two names" is wrong. It's one name just woth two parts.

[@AlohaBiatch]

HDI is not a good measure of a country's development, it was never meant to be used in this way. Instead there is a measurer calleld IHDI (inequality adjustted HDI) which gives a more accurate picture of a country's situation.. I don't know why this channell didn't use that..

[@comradeofthebalance3147]

@@AlohaBiatch Then how is HDI meant to be? And why did Wendover use this again?

[@scattr7592]

Im shocked it wasnt lower tbh

[@martiddy]

@@comradeofthebalance3147 From Wikipedia: "The IHDI can be interpreted as the level of human development when inequality is accounted for," whereas the Human Development Index itself, from which the IHDI is derived, is "an index of potential human development (or the maximum IHDI that could be achieved if there were no inequality)."

[@1986fritzthecat]

Low key surprised the Canada news wasn't the discovery of thousands of children's graves at residential schools

[@1986fritzthecat]

@@riccriccardoricc honestly, i wasnt sure how much traction it got outside of canada. We've had it buried for decades here, i wouldnt put it past the media to gloss over the bad things canada has done

[@BIZKIT551]

With ongoing issues and disputes like the threat of China wanting to invade Taiwan, this country is in a very tough situation. Taiwan should have been included in this list and I was eagerly looking forward to seeing it.

[@kiancuratolo903]

I love this channel but that was my exact thought when i finished

[@raymondchu0604]

Yeah, that's sad we didn't have east Taiwan on the list.

[@gwongcy04]

was also looking for Taiwan, but at least we saw hong kong on the list (hmmmm hong kong as a country…debatable) may peace be with all in the new year, especially to those in peril.

[@extraordinarilyuglycouch9410]

Agreed! Taiwan deserves to be on this list! Very curious why it wasn't on there, and disappointed. They were willing to mention the genocide in Xinjiang and level a few other criticisms at the CCP, they should also be willing to include the independent Republic of China on the list.

[@BIZKIT551]

@@gwongcy04 Yes HK was there but the topic was Disneyland.. A lot of more serious things did happen in HK this year but I'm guessing due to time constraints of this video he chose to talk about something short and not newsworthy

[@Kvadraten376]

In Denmark a former minister was sentenced to prison. The agricultural subsidy story is a small one.

[@minecrafter0505]

Considering the focus on climate change in this summary video I expected the German headline to be the flood that happened this year, which was one of the most severe ones in Germany's recorded history. Thousands lost everything and reparations are still ongoing.

[@BelgianWarriorGaming]

It was largely broadcasted worldwide

[@kashatnick]

because attributing historically uninteresting weather to such change is a non starter.

[@coooooooooool1000]

but wasn't that a piece of news most people would less likely miss?

[@Captain-Sum.Ting-Wong]

@@kashatnick Ah yes here come the armchair scientists

[@danielheckel2755]

"News you probably missed". Also, reparations are financial compensation for wrongdoing. Maybe you mean rebuilding.

[@septesix]

I wish that they could’ve included Taiwan as well. Sure it’s not on the UN’s list but I think an exception can be made.

[@ridingweeb4801]

he put all other ones that arent on the un list in the first video expect taiwan and kosovo lmao

[@wilhelmbittrich88]

Hang on, he seriously didn’t include Taiwan? Wtf

[@trackball18]

This video seems awfully "KZbin Algorithm" friendly if you know what I mean.

[@TheZachary86]

@@wilhelmbittrich88 Yeah cause it’s not a country

[@wilhelmbittrich88]

@@TheZachary86 how is it not a country? An island nation of 23 million population, strong independent economy, national identity, 22nd ranked military in the world. Taiwan has been there since 1945. Sounds like a country to me!

[@joaoling]

A bit annoyed that Hong Kong was included but not Macau, they both have quite a similar status but, as always, Hong Kong overshadows Macau. You even mentioned it in the news of Liechtenstein!!

[@TheZachary86]

I think he shouldn’t have included Macau nor HK. They aren’t countries

[@____-pb1lg]

He should've mentioned taiwan too :(

[@joaoling]

@@TheZachary86 i feel like if they cared to put hk in, then Macau should be there as well, either both or none!

[@jirafey_]

actually who the fuck cares about it being a country or not hong Kong Macau western Sahara, people live there why we have to just because someone said it's not a country pretend like it does not matter to us anymore what happens there. It's just recognition of countries that rules what we think higher or lower of other regions. It should not be this way. Not putting Taiwan here is a mistake but I can't really blame him who would not be scared of China. I really thought if this channel puts this much effort to their videos they could actually make it unbiased. I can't say they didn't try. I am happy with this no one else done it at that scale.

[@heichan8657]

dont blame Sam, blame HDI

[@johndaly2816]

Grab is definitely a Malaysian company and not Singaporean. It just officially registered in Singapore for tax purposes.

[@tianyongchew2708]

Indeed, but the M'sian government's policies are to blame for a loss of such a super-company to foreign countries..

[@EDQASpotter]

38:05 Awesome seeing Orbital O2. I worked on machining the outer two generators. Truely massing seeing them in person.

[@EDQASpotter]

The machining process took place throught between November and December 2020 in Germany.

[@averykal]

Please tell me this is coming back for this year, absolutely loved this

[@MortyMortyMorty]

I really had no clue Ireland was number 2 out of 200 countries on the planet in terms of HDI.

[@germanogirardelli]

Monaco is last. Just to give you an idea of how silly the HDI is

[@The_NSeven]

@@germanogirardelli No, Monaco was not ranked on the HDI list, hence it being placed last. Sam mentioned that in the first episode.

[@rowaystarco]

@@germanogirardelli No it's not, it's just not listed due to lack of data.

[@tysopiccaso8711]

Imagine stealing a youtube comment

[@walpol3]

Another commenter addressed this: GDP per capita is part of the HDI ranking, and Ireland's status as a tax haven skews this. Ireland would still rank highly even if it wasn't a tax haven, but it most likely would be a bit lower

[@crystalbarnes4876]

Happy new year, Sam! Gotta love how much the comment section cares about Taiwan, probably more than what’s going on in their own countries

[@yjjcoolcool]

Me too, but I'm glad people are becoming more and more concerned and are recognising the importance of Taiwan and democracy in general, as the CCP becomes more aggressive and scary in it's political campaign. Cheers to everyone and have a happy new year! 🎉

[@mrwarlord9696]

he already mentioned china though

[@yjjcoolcool]

@@mrwarlord9696 Yes but not Taiwan

[@CoronadoJoe77]

I mean it's a country most people have seen in the news, especially due to a lot of the audience being US based

[@normalmighty]

You know as much as it makes a mess of things politically, you gotta admire the balls of Taiwan to say "not only are we a country, but we are in dact the real China and just happen to be inconvenienced by an occupying rebellion which has temporarily had control of the entire mainland for decades." Would it be easier if they just admitted their nation only consisted of the island of Taiwan? Sure. But you gotta admire them for turning to China and saying "no u."

[@jomiar309]

33:14 I know about LG's move away from smartphones, because LG has been my smartphone of choice for 6 years now, and I really don't like any of the current options. I was deeply saddened by LG's departure. I love these two videos--I feel somewhat better connected with the rest of the world, and I am reminded by how much so many people have to deal with!

[@Ris0t0]

I know how you feel. LG pulled out of Estonia in 2015 and it was my smartphone of choice back then. Now the whole world will know my pain.

[@shahnewazarefeen9934]

Release THE NEWS YOU MISSED IN EVERY COUNTRY series this year as well

[@pjotre1661]

Loved the Video and all the work you put into it! Nevertheless I think Taiwan should be included in this list!

[@ZaDussault]

That lobster won the lottery of genetics! Nowadays, it's not about survival, but cuteness.

[@Teraplexor1]

40:20 omg he actually pronounced Brisbane correctly, usually people from overseas get it wrong.

[@Banankaffe]

@Hunira Miska ?

[@nerosnm]

he mispronounced most of the non-English names though

[@syxepop]

@@Banankaffe - do not reply to S3X BOTS, OK? Denounce them until YT cares....

[@arphmd]

Brisbin!

[@Rayy14]

He used to live in Australia.

[@larsiparsii]

I was on the beach when the meteor flew over Norway. At first I thought it was a floodlight before reading about it on the news five minutes later.

[@shroger_yt8183]

I love yoy

[@unlucky5442]

dope, I was out camping and got a direct view of the meteorite for a second

[@jamesgullberg2293]

Taiwan is more of a country than Hong Kong.

[@dr.flaviob9746]

So right

[@MaxMercerPiano]

Excellent video and great transitions! Very well done!

[@deusexaethera]

It's gonna be great fun to see what this series has to report for 2022.

[@jacobrosen]

I really loved your vid last year. As a swede the Sweden news about fully automated stores had gone by me completely. But I think you picked a boring one this year, as you picked probably the news article with most international recognition (althou the one you picked is really hillarious due to the short time she managed to keep the title). Looking forward to more of these videos thou, it's really fun to see what's going on in the world that I had no idea about

[@95BWG]

While she was indeed elected twice, she never took office the first time so she never kept the title for just a couple of hours. Stefan Löfven was still prime minister until she was elected again and actually took office.

[@MotoRiderTube]

I guess nothing happened in Taiwan in 2021...

[@Walkingcedar2006]

Sam, I watched this in Nebula (part 2), all in one night with Part 1 (watched shortly before midnight). Thank you. I wish I could meet you. You do an incredible job. I've seen you on Tom's show. Good work, good quality to your team. Happy New Year to you and yours.

[@Helvett222]

The HDI ranks countries based on only 3 factors: life expectancy, years of education, and per capita income. It does not take into account the level of unemployment and inflation or the level of corruption. It also fails to take into account the level of human rights and democracy as well as freedom of the media. In addition, it does not assess the level of crime, i.e. the threat of terrorism and the number of homicides. It also does not evaluate countries in terms of the quality of the environment or running a business, economic innovation or access to the Internet by residents. I make a ranking of the standard of living in the world every two years. In the last of 2020, I included 34 categories according to which I rated 156 countries. I'm just starting to create another one this year. Not only the UN publishes such rankings, in my opinion the Legatum Prosperity Index published every year is much more credible, and the Social Progress Index is also published every year, which is worse, in my opinion it is worse showing the real reality in the standard of living. Returning to the methodology of my ranking, all countries in each category rank from 1st place to 156, except where in some field only 1 country - without ex equo - is in the highest position, it gives it 0 points and the country is in second place normally 2. Then it sums up places taken by each country in all categories and the lower the value of the hype places a given country obtains, the higher (better) it ranks. I do not know yet how many categories will be included in this year's ranking, but when it comes to the number of countries assessed by me, it will probably not change or will change slightly.

[@frankeinfish]

Okay... And?

[@Helvett222]

@@frankeinfish And what do you want

[@SuperSMT]

Do you have a better metric for ranking countries? Those three are probably the most important. All those other things you mention correlate very closely with HDI as it is

[@Helvett222]

@@SuperSMT I make a ranking of the standard of living in the world every two years. In the last of 2020, I included 34 categories according to which I rated 156 countries. I'm just starting to create another one this year. Not only the UN publishes such rankings, in my opinion the Legatum Prosperity Index published every year is much more credible, and the Social Progress Index is also published every year, which is worse, in my opinion it is worse showing the real reality in the standard of living. Returning to the methodology of my ranking, all countries in each category rank from 1st place to 156, except where in some field only 1 country - without ex equo - is in the highest position, it gives it 0 points and the country is in second place normally 2. Then it sums up places taken by each country in all categories and the lower the value of the hype places a given country obtains, the higher (better) it ranks. I do not know yet how many categories will be included in this year's ranking, but when it comes to the number of countries assessed by me, it will probably not change or will change slightly.

[@vintyprod]

Neat

[@Blingchachink]

Coconut water, conch shells, and rats is a fucking amazing caloric feast. Not too shabby

[@ronanmurphy98]

I was waiting for Ireland thinking we would never appear. I knew we would be up there, but 2nd in the world on Human Development?! Amazing.

[@1989TS..]

When the entire world is falling apart it's easy for the crappy nations to appear less crappy then before. Just ask India or Brazil.

[@dazzathakilla6364]

@@1989TS.. crappy? My country is lovely

[@matthewcousins9350]

@@1989TS.. C o p e

[@bartholomewdan]

To be fair, as GDP is a measure in calculating HDI and Ireland is a pretty big tax haven, the numbers are skewed a fair bit.

[@ethanclark6132]

The shot of the Christ redeemer in Brazil when talking about Portugal was hilarious

[@crunchytoast6007]

I really like how you went bottom up because that means when people watch part one they hear about all the countries they might not hear about even if they don’t watch part two

[@thomy2562]

Being Slovenian, i didnt even know Janša did that lmao

[@grekiki]

What's that pronounication though :)

[@elninobritish]

What a wonderful world my friends. Much to cheer about this year from the looks of this, but also much to do and much to improve on. Best wishes for 2022.

[@beadowarrior]

As well as a fascinating insight to the lesser heralded news stories, can I just say how brilliant I find the linking comments between each country. Weel constructed and at time hilarious connections between the items show how much effort goes into these vids. Again, thank you WP.

[@Kamakzibarista]

I'd watch this every month!

[@hildenburg5]

I always knew Palau was more well off than most places but I didn't think we were number 50 in the world... probably easier to spread the wealth

[@martinvaclavik3393]

As a Czech, it leaves a sour taste in my mouth that you picked a rich person's death as the headline of the year over the win of democratic political parties in october elections, leading to an end of era of the party ANO with their leader (and prime minister for the last 8 years) Andrej Babiš being on trial for many years for money laundering, tax fraud and other financial frauds... otherwise very good video, i love these

[@kristofmatthaeidesz290]

You are right, but the video isnt about the most important news of each country, its about news we didnt know. And I guess more people know about the elections than about the death of Petr Kellner, but you are right, the elections are more important but thats not the topic of the video. In almost every country there were more important things than what got mentioned. Or du you think the Only Fans for nude skulpures was the most important thing in Austria? :D

[@MrNicoJac]

Congratulations from the Netherlands! I hope you get more democratic leaders. (also, would you like to buy some livestock?)

[@deniivanov]

Skopgee , love your pronunciation of Skopije. Fantastic video as always.

[@malemute4378]

Wait where is Taiwan

[@MrMediator24]

It's somewhere, but not in HDI

[@SSofIreland]

Off the coast of China. 🥁 _ba dum tss_

[@ljenk5]

That was immensely enjoyable and educational and just amazing, what a great idea, I look forward to it again this year ♥️

[@tanjoy0205]

Good to see Singapore get mentioned ! 38:40 Temeask holdings actually already invested 10 million dollars in Grab . Edit:He should do a video on sovereign wealth funds like temeask holdings ,totally unbiased suggestion

[@BrianPaick]

Ironic how Hong Kong's HDI is so high when most people are living in shoebox sized apts and even investment bankers apartments are like college dorm rooms

[@Paulkjoss]

Looking forward to the ‘Logistics Of Producing The News You Missed in 20XX’ videos

[@januszkurahenowski2860]

Seems that you forgot to mention that coal is also the official polish currency, we pay for our groceries with pieces of coal. Also when a man wants to show affection for a woman he takes out a piece of coal from his pocket and gifts it to a woman, polish women absolutely adore it and think that coal is the true symbol of love, not diamonds (which are also carbon but worse because you can't use them to make electricity and heat your apartament). We also eat coal as a snack, when we get a bit hungry we just take a bite of a piece of coal just like everyone else would take a bite of an apple. Coal is extremely versatile and everybody loves it. This information is 100% true, there is no reason to ask anyone else to confirm it. They're gonna be offended that you're doubting our national devotion to coal.

[@beback_]

12:21 In Iran the minute the story broke out everyone knew the Revolutionary Guards were lying. It’s so common for them to be caught in a ridiculous, grandiose lie that I’d forgotten about this already.

[@kr15t14n_]

Great work as always! Greetings from Norway!

[@Spectacurl]

Very sad that you missed Taiwan 🇹🇼

[@lhelma]

Bro it's featured in part 1

[@D_Winds]

These were terrific videos, and I look forward to 2022's highlights!

[@nexusyang4832]

Still no Taiwan.

[@hazelnut3794]

Just unofficial country

[@HKG5sentsp]

No Taiwan when nearly ALL COUNTRIES and MOST HUMANS on earth recognize Taiwan as a nation

[@vienna0810]

almost no country officially recognises Taiwan as a country...including yours. sorry to burst your bubble

[@michal31131]

Lol he included Palastin and not Taiwan, yet Taiwan has more recognition

[@Duck-wc9de]

the Portuguese unique minority government formed by an extreme balance colapses in the middle of the pandemic, resulting in the dissolution of parliament and schedulling new elections that are set to not change the political landscape, wich could culminante in a parliament lock. Wendover Productions : "bosses cant call you after work"

[@MrMediator24]

21:03 Moscow once again confirms it's status as "default city" here in Russia

[@greatcanadianmoose3965]

World: *is in chaos Canada: L O B S T E R

[@caldera11]

World: is better than ever before in terms of all countries developing, reduction of poverty, quality of life, etc. People who have to stay inside a bit due to a pandemic: WORLD IS RUINED AND I CANT TAKE IT IM NEVER HAVING KIDS IN THIS SHIT WORLD Canada: Shut the fuck up and look at this cool lobster

[@seafighter4]

Well, Germany's news was underwhelming. Here's a better one: Merkel stepped down this year after leading the German government for 16 years as chancellor, arguably Germany's most influential political position in day-to-day politics. Her nickname, "Mutti", given to her by the German press, which is a minimalization for the German word for "mother", might give a hint as to why she held the position for so long. Born in East Germany, she however is only the 7th chancellor (West-) Germany had since the first chancellor in 1949 and only the 3rd since the reunification of East- and West Germany in 1990. She also is the first chancellor to have stepped down of her own volition, with every chancellor before her aiming for reelection, but having their bid fail one way or another. Incidentially, with Merkel not running for chancellor again, her party, the CDU, has had its worst election result ever in the party's history.

[@monster6488]

The video covers News you have not heard about yet - Mutti stpiing down was all over the news globally so it would fail to meet the criteria of the video.

[@tannerwilson4843]

Best of her luck in her post political life. I’m sure she will be great in whatever she decides to do next!

[@luxkstn]

7:48 sam please no that's not how you pronounce Skopje, it's pronounced "Skopeeye"

[@JovanLemon]

_scoop gee_

[@photonicpizza1466]

Mispronouncing Prošek as Prosek didn't help much in the Croatian bit of news, either. Should be read as "proshek"

[@nathanielfamisan1968]

Happy New Year, Wendover! 🎉🎉

[@Evan_Rodgers]

HEY WHERE IS TAIWAN? TAWAIN IS A COUNTRY

[@Thebreakdownshow1]

This is so mind blowing to see how different countries have different things in news. Meanwhile we sit on our high horse in the west getting worried over our first world problems.

[@madat5843]

Have you wathed part 1?

[@heyhorinshi]

Well your problems are still problems and need solving after that you can even helped them

[@JonGretarB]

The double shoulder arm transplant was performed in France on a Icelandic person. Even thought we have good healthcare this is way too niche of a surgery for a country with this small of a population.

[@newmaster2788]

19:09 As a Bulgarian I can confirm that we make a good rose and sunflower oil but US they are here when they hear the Word oil!

[@1TrueGem]

I loved my LG phones they always performed fantastically and gave me so much use. It's so sad they stopped producing and I have to switch over to others that quite frankly are not as good.

[@andrive]

Only good brands left are google and samsung, but samsung is kinda falling apart

[@jonjonckheer5063]

Love the videos! Would love to see more news from caribbean countries!

[@arevolvingdoor3836]

I wonder where Taiwan was on this list...

[@coreytaylor447]

there is something deeply memeable about the US army accidentally clearing out a sunflower oil factory during an excersies

[@TobaT3]

NO NO NO YOU DID NOT PUT THAT DAMN FLYING CAR AS THE TOP NEWS FROM SLOVAKIA NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@FalbertForester]

A great deal of work, well done indeed! Thank you and bravo!

[@abrahamwickelgren8615]

Where is Taiwan??? I don’t think I missed it. If I did, my apologies. Otherwise, are you also capitulating to Chinese pressure by not including Taiwan? How can you include Hong Kong and not Taiwan? This seems disgraceful.

[@pootube45]

that was some mighty fine segue work WP, flow was strong

[@NoName.was.taken.]

Lets go!! I've been waiting for the second part

[@Patfan91]

Thank you Sam happy new year!

[@th3kid13]

No Taiwan?

[@hazelnut3794]

Just unofficial country

[@Huziharamantics]

It's weird seeing a video posted on the 1st of January... Anyways Happy New Year Wendover! :D

[@PGproductionsHD]

31st here still

[@Huziharamantics]

@@PGproductionsHD Well... Happy (early) New Years!

[@justsomepersononyoutube9271]

It's new years eve here

[@PGproductionsHD]

@@Huziharamantics Happy New Year 🎈

[@NatureXwars]

I thought for #4 that he was going to include Taiwan this time around...