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In spite of the World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report which is increasingly identifying environmental pressures as the dominant risks to humanity, none of the indicators used to determine this report's competitiveness ranking reflect any of the countries' environmental dimensions such as energy, water, climate risks, resource or food security, etc.
The infrastructure factors account for the price and availability of office space at the location, as well as public transport. The financial sector development factors assess the volume and value of trading in capital markets and other financial markets , the cluster effect of the number of different financial service companies at the location ...
The ranking is based on a variety of factors including wealth, economic growth, education, health, personal well-being, and quality of life. As of the 2023 rankings, 167 countries and territories were ranked, and Denmark topped the list, followed by its Nordic neighbours Sweden, Norway and Finland. South Sudan was in last place at 167th.
The World Competitiveness Yearbook is an annual report published by the Swiss-based International Institute for Management Development (IMD) on the competitiveness of nations and has been published since 1989. [1] The yearbook benchmarks the performance of 63 countries based on 340 criteria measuring different facets of competitiveness.
In this year’s World Happiness Report, the U.S. fell from No. 15 to No. 23 on the list. This is the first time the U.S. has not been one of the top 20 happiest places in the report’s history.
A notable criticism is that although the Social Progress Index can be seen as a superset of indicators used by earlier econometric models such as Gross National Well-being Index 2005, Bhutan Gross National Happiness Index of 2012, and World Happiness Report of 2012, unlike them, it ignores measures of subjective life satisfaction and ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 February 2025. World map of countries or territories by Human Development Index scores in increments of 0.050 (based on 2022 data, published in 2024) ≥ 0.950 0.900–0.950 0.850–0.899 0.800–0.849 0.750–0.799 0.700–0.749 0.650–0.699 0.600–0.649 0.550–0.599 0.500–0.549 0.450–0.499 0. ...
The rankings of national happiness are based on a happiness measurement survey undertaken world-wide by the polling company Gallup, Inc.Nationally representative samples of respondents are asked to think of a ladder, with the best possible life for them being a 10, and the worst possible life being a 0.