- in millionaires
- in billionaires
- in military spending
- in firearm deaths
- in beef production
- in per capita energy use
- in carbon dioxide emissions (more than Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, India, Indonesia, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and the United Kingdom combined)
- in total and per capita municipal waste (720 kilograms per person per year)
- in hazardous waste produced (by a factor of more than twenty times our nearest competitor, Germany)
- in oil consumption
- in natural gas consumption
- in the least amount of tax revenue generated (as a percentage of gross domestic product)
- in the least amount of federal and state government expenditure (as a percentage of GDP)
- in daily per capita consumption of calories
- in lowest voter turnout
- in fewest number of political parties represented in the lower or single house
- in recorded rapes (by a factor of almost three times our nearest competitor - Canada)
- in injuries and deaths from road accidents (almost twice as many as runner-up Canada)
- in births to mothers under the age of twenty (again, more than twice as many as Canada, and nearly twice as many as number-two New Zealand).
- in the number on international human rights treaties not signed
- among countries in the United Nations with a legally constituted government to not ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
- in number of know exectuions of child offenders
- in likelihood of children under the age of fifteen to commit suicide with a gun
- in lowest eighth-grade math scores
- in becoming the first society in history in which the poorest group in the population are children