Thursday, November 04, 2010

Norway best, Zimbabwe worst places to live...

Oil-rich Norway remains the best country in the world to live in, while Zimbabwe, afflicted by economic crisis and AIDS, is the least desirable, according to an annual UN rating released on Thursday.


The assessment came in a so-called human development index, a measure of wellbeing published by the UN Development Program for the past 20 years that combines individual economic prosperity with education levels and life expectancy.

The UNDP placed Norway, Australia and New Zealand at the top and Niger — last year’s back-marker — the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zimbabwe at the bottom, as Western countries again led the list while sub-Saharan African nations trailed. More...

See the rankings here...

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