India and Jordan by far the least tolerant countries in the world when it comes to racism. This is according to a survey by World Values Survey which studied 80 countries around the world.

Washington Post

The survey asked respondents in more than 80 different countries to identify kinds of people they would not want as neighbors.

Some respondents, picking from a list, chose "people of a different race." The more frequently that people in a given country say they don't want neighbors from other races, the economists reasoned, the less racially tolerant you could call that society.

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According to the survey, English and Latin speaking countries are the most tolerant. People in the survey were most likely to embrace a racially diverse neighbor in the United Kingdom and its former colonies like the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and in Latin America. Scandinavian countries also scored high on the survey.

Amid the ongoing refugee situation European countries had a mixed result on racial tolerance. France was one of the least racially tolerant countries in Europe, with 22.7 percent saying they didn't want a neighbor of another race.

Hindustan Times

With over 40 per cent of the participants saying they would not want a neighbor of a different race, India and Jordan featured on the bottom of the list.

While 43.5 percent of Indians were not in favor the corresponding figure was 51.4 percent for Jordan.

Surprisingly Pakistan ranked way higher than even European countries like Germany and Netherlands

Only 6.5 percent of Pakistanis objected to a neighbor of a different race.

However, when pointed out the disparity in the score of India those conducted the survey clarified that it could be due to three reasons.

First, is an enormous country; anecdotal interactions are not representative of the whole, particularly given that people who are wealthy enough to travel internationally may be likely to encounter some subsets of these respective populations more than others.

Second, the survey question gets to internal, personal preferences; what the respondents want. One person's experiences hanging out with Indians, in addition to being anecdotal, only tell you about their outward behavior.

Third, the survey question is a way of judging racial tolerance but, like many social science metrics, is indirect and imperfect.