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The top three countries in the 2014 list were Ireland, Finland and Switzerland. [7] Nine of the top 10 countries in overall rankings are in Western Europe, while Canada tops overall rankings in North America. [8] The last three countries on the list are Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan.
The table below presents the latest Human Development Index (HDI) [1] for countries in Europe as included in a United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report (released in 2020). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Previous HDI values and rankings are retroactively recalculated using the same updated data sets and current methodologies, as presented in ...
Germany has the largest financial surplus of any country in Europe as well as the remainder of the world. Greece has the highest public debt (as a percentage of GDP) of any European state. North Macedonia has the highest unemployment rate of any European state. Liechtenstein has the highest average wage of any state in Europe.
The 2018 Legatum Prosperity Index is based on 104 different variables analysed across 149 nations around the world. Source data includes Gallup World Poll, World Development Indicators, International Telecommunication Union, Fragile States Index, Worldwide Governance Indicators, Freedom House, World Health Organization, World Values Survey, Amnesty International, and Centre for Systemic Peace.
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 data shown below are the current rankings per country and topic for the year 2020. Each topic is given a score calculated from the indices used to create the topic group, you can find the raw data on the OECD Better Life Index website. [10] The rankings given below are calculated giving an equal weighting of 1 to each well-being topic.
Finland holds the rank of the happiest country in the world for the fourth consecutive year. [30] It is followed by Denmark, Switzerland, Iceland and Netherlands. Afghanistan received the lowest score, with South Sudan and Rwanda just above it. In addition to country rankings, this is the second year that the World Happiness Report ranks cities.
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 ...