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Making multiple comparisons of country means that the likelihood of overestimating significant results is increased. You might want to make an additional adjustment such as those used in PISA -

Wikipedia multiple comparisons entry

PISA multiple comparisons graph

Fig: PISA multiple comparisons graph

The University of Manchester; Mimas; ESRC; RDI

Countries and Citizens: Unit 3 Making cross-national comparisons using micro data by Siobhan Carey, Department for International Development is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales Licence.