Norway Better Place to Live than Iceland

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has released its 2015 report on global human development and Nigeria’s performance remains obstinately stagnant.

Even so, New Zealand has fallen in the Human Development Index.

Norway came first behind Australia and Switzerland, with most of the top ten countries being located in Europe or North America.

Each year, the United Nations ranks countries on their HDI (Human Development Index), which measures countries in education, life expectancy and income/standard of living – and it seems that Norway is knocking it out of the park, year-on-year. According to the index, for example, the per capita GDP in Israel stands at $30,600, compared to Belgium, with $41,200.

“The HDI can also be used to question national policy choices, asking how two countries with the same level of [Gross National Income] per capita can end up with different human development outcomes”.

“Economic growth is a mean to that process, but is not an end by itself”, the report stated. Israel was 18th, and Japan was 20th.

Russian Federation was 50th, China was 90th, and India was ranked near the bottom at 130th.

The countries with the steepest drops on the 2015 HDI are strife-torn Libya, which slipped 27 places, and Syria, which fell 15 places.

― File picKUALA LUMPUR, Dec 17 ― Malaysia was ranked the 62nd best country to live in the world by the United Nations (UN) in its latest study measuring human development, but still lost to southern neighbour Singapore which placed 11th.

It’s not just the Northern Lights that make Norway irresistible; it is officially the most livable country in the world. The three lowest ranking countries were all in Africa: Niger, the Central African Republic, and Eritrea.