The 9 advanced economies with the best quality of life in the world
9. New Zealand —Education and ease of doing business are the jewels in the nation's crown, however its overall score slipped under employment and productivity.
8. Australia — Australia achieved some of the highest scores in real economy investment, entrepreneurship, education, and health services. However its scores suffered in the work productivity and wages category.
7. The Netherlands —Dutch people can expect the highest quality of education, infrastructure, and healthcare but the country does lack, compared to its counterparts, in the real economy investment area.
6. Sweden —The country excels at basic services and infrastructure as well as business and political ethics and concentration of rents. It also scores one of the highest for wages and compensation.
5. Denmark —The nation clocks up some of the indexes highest scores across all pillars apart from real economy investment.
4. Iceland —The country scores highly across the board but pretty low in financial system inclusion, which drags it down slightly in the index.
3. Switzerland —The nation scored highly across every pillar and pretty much every performance indicator and especially in employment productivity.
2. Luxembourg —The wealthy nation scored highly across healthcare, education, rent, as well as in business and politics ethics.
1. Norway —The country is the most inclusive nation in the world. And despite the economy only growing by 0.5%, its citizens saw living standards rise by 10.6% over 2008-13, says WEF.
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