Most Polite Nations Ranked

Anyone who has travelled a bit will notice that the inhabitants of some nations are just a bit more polite than others and while each country has it's share of grumpy buggers who won't hold open a door for anyone following behind or say thank you when you stop to let them out of a road, some have more than their fair share of those we do so if only we had some sort of league table of which nations are the most polite and who have not yet mastered the art of not being dicks?  
Luckily we do so thank you to the digital remittance service who surveyed 5,000 global customers and asked them based on their personal experiences, who was the most polite nation based on criteria of respectfulness, friendliness, patience, following social rules, treating strangers  and politeness.
Topping the list by a wide margin is Japan, which earns more than a third of all votes (35%) for the most polite country in the world and then Canada (14%) clinches second, then the United Kingdom (7%), China (4%) and Germany (3%) claims the fifth spot.
The rest of the top 10 are The Philippines (2.3%), Sweden (2.2%), Denmark (2.1%), Finland (1.9%) and rounding out the top ten is South Africa (1.8%).
Australians come in 11th (1.7%) which gives them bragging rights over New Zealand in 16th (1.2%) and Norway at 17th (1.1%) is the lowest of the Scandi's  but South America and Africa don't come out of it very well with only Brazil (1%) and South Africa representing their entire continents.
With Canada's second place, they are 11 places above the USA (1.6%) in 13th but that won't come as a surprise as Canadians have long been known as some of the friendliest people on the globe.  
If your country is not in the top 25 then they did not receive any votes whatsoever and it is safe to assume that you really should try harder, or in my best polite British way, your contributions currently lack the desired level of politeness.

1    Japan
2    Canada    
3    United Kingdom    
4    China    
5    Germany    
6    Philippines
7    Sweden    
8    Denmark    
9    Finland    
10  South Africa
11  Australia    
11  Switzerland    
13  United States    
14  India    
15  Ireland    
16  New Zealand    
17  Norway    
18  Netherlands
19  Thailand    
19  France    
21  Brazil    
22  Spain    
23  Belgium
24  Italy
25  Austria