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Friday, October 11, 2019

The 2019 Best Countries rankings,




https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/quality-of-life-rankings

The 2019 Best Countries rankings, formed in partnership with BAV Group, a unit of global marketing communications company VMLY&R, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, are based on a study that surveyed more than 20,000 global citizens from four regions to assess perceptions of 80 countries on 75 different metrics. The Quality of Life subranking is based on an equally weighted average of scores from nine country attributes that relate to quality of life in a country: affordable, a good job market, economically stable, family friendly, income equality, politically stable, safe, well-developed public education system and well-developed public health system. The Quality of Life subranking score had a 17 percent weight in the overall Best Countries ranking.
People consistently view a small group of nations as best providing for their citizens. For the fourth consecutive year, Canada ranks No. 1 overall for providing a good quality of life. Survey respondents view the North American country as No. 1 for both being politically stable and having a well-developed public education system, and No. 2 for having a good job market, a perception supported by independent research. The North American country is seen as possessing the fifth best well-developed public health care system. In fact, Canada is rated in the top 10 in all but one of the nine attributes, affordability, where Asian countries dominate.
Seven European countries are ranked in the top 10, and 13 from the continent rank in the top 20. Sweden, Denmark and Norway immediately follow Canada, with Switzerland, Finland, Australia, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Germany also finishing in the top 10.
Countries perceived to provide a lower quality of life perform most poorly in areas concerning personal safety and economic opportunity. Iraq, followed by Iran, Lebanon, Jordan, and Angola are at the bottom of the quality of life ranking. Iraq finishes last in the survey for being friendly to families.
For the second year in a row, the United States ranks No. 17 overall by survey respondents for providing a good quality of life. Its highest ranking is for its job market, where it ranks first. Its lowest ranking came in affordability, where survey responses placed it No. 56.

Quality of Life Rankings

  • #1 in Quality of Life Rankings
    No Change in Rank from 2018
    Canada takes up about two-fifths of the North American continent, making it the second-largest country in the world after Russia. The country is sparsely populated, with most of its 35.5 million residents living within 125 miles of the U.S. border. Canada’s expansive wilderness to the north plays a large role in Canadian identity, as does the country’s reputation of welcoming immigrants.

    GDP

    $1.7 trillion

    POPULATION

    36.7 million

    GDP PER CAPITA, PPP

    $48,390
  • #2 in Quality of Life Rankings
    #3 out of 80 in 2018
    The Kingdom of Sweden, flanked by Norway to the west and the Baltic Sea to the east, expands across much of the Scandinavian Peninsula and is one of the largest countries in the European Union by land mass. Capital city Stockholm was claimed in the 16th century, and border disputes through the Middle Ages established the modern-day nation.

    GDP

    $538.0 billion

    POPULATION

    10.1 million

    GDP PER CAPITA, PPP

    $51,185
  • #3 in Quality of Life Rankings
    #2 out of 80 in 2018
    The Kingdom of Denmark emerged in the 10th century and includes two North Atlantic island nations, the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Along with Sweden and Norway, it forms Scandinavia, a cultural region in Northern Europe.

    GDP

    $324.9 billion

    POPULATION

    5.8 million

    GDP PER CAPITA, PPP

    $50,071
  • #4 in Quality of Life Rankings
    No Change in Rank from 2018
    The Kingdom of Norway is the westernmost country in the Scandinavian peninsula, made up mostly of mountainous terrain. Nearly all of its population lives in the south, surrounding the capital, Oslo. Norway’s coastline is made up of thousands of miles of fjords, bays and island shores. The Norwegians developed a maritime culture, and were active throughout the Viking era, establishing settlements in Iceland and Greenland.

    GDP

    $398.8 billion

    POPULATION

    5.3 million

    GDP PER CAPITA, PPP

    $72,058
  • #5 in Quality of Life Rankings
    #6 out of 80 in 2018
    Switzerland, officially called the Swiss Federation, is a small country in Central Europe made up of 16,000 square miles of glacier-carved Alps, lakes and valleys. It’s one of the world’s wealthiest countries, and has been well-known for centuries for its neutrality.

    GDP

    $678.9 billion

    POPULATION

    8.5 million

    GDP PER CAPITA, PPP

    $62,125
  • #6 in Quality of Life Rankings
    #7 out of 80 in 2018
    Geography defines the history and culture of Nordic Finland, one of the most northern-reaching countries in the world. Bordered by Scandinavia, Russia, the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia, Finland and its vast stretches of heavily forested open land acts as a northern gate between West and East.

    GDP

    $251.9 billion

    POPULATION

    5.5 million

    GDP PER CAPITA, PPP

    $44,492
  • #7 in Quality of Life Rankings
    #5 out of 80 in 2018
    The Commonwealth of Australia occupies the Australian continent. The country also includes some islands, most notably Tasmania. Indigenous people occupied the land for at least 40,000 years before the first British settlements of the 18th century.

    GDP

    $1.3 trillion

    POPULATION

    24.6 million

    GDP PER CAPITA, PPP

    $50,391
  • #8 in Quality of Life Rankings
    No Change in Rank from 2018
    Situated along the fringes of Western Europe, the Netherlands is a coastal lowland freckled with windmills characteristic of its development around the water. Three major European rivers - the Rhine, Meuse and Schelde - run through neighbors Germany and Belgium into the nation’s busy ports.

    GDP

    $826.2 billion

    POPULATION

    17.1 million

    GDP PER CAPITA, PPP

    $53,933
  • #9 in Quality of Life Rankings
    No Change in Rank from 2018
    British and Polynesian influences course through picturesque New Zealand, an island nation in the Pacific Ocean southeast of Australia. Early Maori settlers ceded sovereignty to British invaders with the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, and European settlers flooded in. Today, 70 percent of Kiwis, a common term for the people of New Zealand after a native flightless bird, are of European descent. A sense of pride has surged among the Maori, the country’s first settlers who now account for about 14 percent, as homeland grievances become more openly addressed.

    GDP

    $205.9 billion

    POPULATION

    4.8 million

    GDP PER CAPITA, PPP

    $39,012
  • #10 in Quality of Life Rankings
    No Change in Rank from 2018
    Germany, the most populous nation in the European Union, possesses one of the largest economies in the world and has seen its role in the international community grow steadily since reunification. The Central European country borders nine nations, and its landscape varies, from the northern plains that reach to the North and Baltic seas to the Bavarian Alps in the south.

    GDP

    $3.7 trillion

    POPULATION

    82.7 million

    GDP PER CAPITA, PPP

    $50,804

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