In order to help people understand how nations are perceived at the global level, a study is conducted annually with a sample of 21 thousand people. They are asked to evaluate 80 states, ranking them on 65 grounds, including economic influence, state structure, citizenship and quality of living. The totality of these indicators makes it possible to determine the quality of life in each state and compliance with the challenges of our time.
To determine which countries considered the best quality of life, the researchers used nine characteristics:
- Accessibility
- Quality of the national labor market
- Economic stability
- Family well-being
- Income equality
- Political stability
- Security
- Quality of the system of state secondary and higher education
- Quality of public health care and medicine.
Places at the top of the ranking are consistently occupied by Canada and the Scandinavian states, known for their strong and efficient social security systems.
This ranking is part of an analytical project called the "Report on the best countries and practices" for 2020, which has been conducted for 8 years by Wharton College at the University of Pennsylvania and the international rating and sociological institute Y&R's BAV Group.
It is enough to look at the states that took the first positions in the ranking last year to realize that military power and economic influence are no longer key factors for the country's success in the international arena. We offer a look at the list of 10 countries by quality of life, as well as the positions that this country was able to occupy in other lists according to US News & World Report.
Germany
Also included in the TOP-10 states for:
- Cutting-edge technology
- Entrepreneurship
- State Institutes
- Number of headquarters of multinational corporations
- Influence
- Transparency of institutions and anti-corruption
- The Ecology of Life
- Secondary education
- Equality of women.
New Zealand
It also ranks well in the rankings of the best jurisdictions for:
- Conditions for retirement
- Travelling Alone
- Adventure
- Raising children in public kindergartens
- Modern technologies.
Netherlands
Included in the top 10:
- The most favorable states for doing business
- Modern technologies
- Ease of doing business
- Number of offices of multinational corporations
- Pre-school education and child-rearing
- Transparency
- Ecological lifestyle
- Equality of women.
Finland
Also in the top states for:
- Ecological lifestyle
- Parenting
- Transparency and anti-corruption
- Gender equality
- Convenience of doing business.
Switzerland
Included in the top ten countries for:
- Convenience of doing business
- Cultural influence and "soft power"
- Entrepreneurial activity
- Ease of starting a new business
- Strategic Development Perspective
- Number of corporate headquarters
- Upbringing and education of children
- Transparency
- Ecological lifestyle
- Secondary and higher education
- Gender and Gender Equality
- The convenience of life in retirement + 26 (!) different ratings.
Australia
Included in the top ten:
- On "soft power" (due to the large number of prestigious higher education institutions and liberal admission policy, a large number of grants)
- Number of TNC offices
- Comfort of the country for the upbringing of children
- The convenience of traveling alone
- Ecological lifestyle
- Investments per capita
- Gender Equality
- Secondary and higher education.
Norway
Different:
- Convenience of doing business and entrepreneurial activity
- Transparency and success in the fight against corruption
- Efficiency of state institutions
- Education
- Gender equality
- Social guarantees
- The greatest efficiency of labor
- Ecological lifestyle.
Also in the top 10 best countries for: business, entrepreneurship, the most modern, transparency, parenting, women, eco-friendly lifestyle.
Sweden and Denmark
Both countries are included in the ratings of states convenient for doing business, actively promoting the gender agenda, developing modern technologies, as well as the number of TNC offices, environmentalism, education and upbringing of children. The Swedes, in addition, actively promote their culture through the mechanisms of "soft power".
Canada
The Great Northern Neighbor of the United States can boast of participation in such dozens:
- Countries favorable for doing business
- Modern technological economies
- Entrepreneurial activity and convenience of opening new enterprises
- The Comforts of Retirement Life
- Promising countries
- Number of TNC offices
- Transparency
- Ecologically proactive countries
- Gender equality
- The best countries to live in
- The happiest states.
