The United Nations Human Development index (HDI) today ranked Norway as the best place in the world in which to live. The UN HDI is based on criteria such as life expectancy, education and income.
Canada placed sixth on the index, after Iceland, Australia, Ireland and Sweden.
More striking than the differences among the top countries were the comparisons of those at the bottom of the index. As my friend DC Grit says
here, it seems strange that by mere happenstance and place of birth some people, say Norwegians can earn 40 times more than the study's lowest-ranked country, Niger, live almost twice as long, and have nearly five times the literacy rate.
Hmmn.
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