Norway Heads Quality of Life Index; Canada Miffed

[Aidoneus]

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Norway, Iceland, Sweden, Australia and the Netherlands ranked as the best countries in which to live in the 2003 U.N. Human Development report on Tuesday, but people in once top-ranked Canada were miffed.

The United States ranked seventh and Canada was eighth in the report that seeks to go beyond per-capita income and include such factors as educational levels, health care and life expectancy in measuring a nation's well-being.

The report also gives a separate index for women's participation in political and economic fields, with surprising results. It says women fare better in Botswana, Costa Rica and Namibia than in Greece, Italy and Japan.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=840&ncid=737&e=4&u=/nm/20030708/wl_canada_nm/canada_un_development_index_col

[foo_bar]

1. quality of pot index?

Gotta wonder when the Dutch edge out the US and Canada, with Western Europe a standard deviation behind.

[Maudlin]

2. What about Norway, Sweden and Belgium?

Chopped liver? :P

[MaryBear]

3. Go to the source article listed in first post.

"The top-ranked nations were: Norway, Iceland, Sweden, Australia, Netherlands, Belgium, United States, Canada, Japan, Switzerland, Denmark, Ireland, Britain, Finland, Luxembourg, Austria, France, Germany, Spain and New Zealand."

[Maudlin]

4. I know, that's where I got them.

They're also in Western Europe, and also ahead of the US.