44 \ Global Youth Development Index and Report 2016 Table 2.8  Highest and lowest-ranked countries in the Employment and Opportunity domain compared with their overall 2016 YDI score Ten highestscoring countries Employment and Opportunity rank Overall YDI rank Ten lowestscoring countries Employment and Opportunity rank Overall YDI rank Netherlands 1 6 Egypt 174 138 Germany 2 1 Honduras 175 93 Japan 3 10 Belize 176 100 Denmark 4 2 Bangladesh 177 146 Mongolia 5 71 Afghanistan 178 167 Austria 6 7 Trinidad and Tobago 179 84 Slovenia 7 12 Tanzania 180 168 Switzerland 8 4 Yemen 181 152 Iceland 9 25 Niger 182 180 Canada 10 14 Iraq 183 145 With an approximately 7 per cent rise, the Civic Participation domain registered the largest improvement between 2010 and 2015 among all the YDI domains. This was made possible primarily by the increase in the number of young people in the past five years who have ‘helped a stranger’. Almost all of this improvement was concentrated in Europe, Central America and Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific. Civic Participation scores worsened for South Asia, Russia and Eurasia, and South America. Table 2.9 lists countries with the highest and lowest ranks in the Civic Participation domain, and compares them with their overall rank in the 2016 YDI. North America, Central America and Caribbean, Asia-Pacific, then Europe are the best-performing regions and have better-than-global-average scores for youth civic participation. South America, Russia and Eurasia, and Sub-Saharan Africa fared the worst in this domain (see Section 2.5). Three countries in the top ten of the Civic Participation domain rank below 100 in the overall YDI. This is Table 2.9  Highest and lowest-ranked countries in the Civic Participation domain compared with their overall 2016 YDI score Ten highestscoring countries Civic Participation rank Overall YDI rank Ten lowest-ranked countries Civic Participation rank Overall YDI rank Liberia 1 119 Slovakia 174 45 USA 2 23 Palestine 175 126 Canada 3 14 Cambodia 176 136 Australia 4 3 Turkey 177 62 Jamaica 5 46 Democratic Republic of the Congo 178 175 Kenya 6 125 China 179 118 New Zealand 7 11 Rwanda 180 148 Cuba 8 57 Paraguay 181 90 Malawi 9 162 Lithuania 182 78 10 82 Burundi 183 153 Libya