Saturday, April 11, 2015

Swiss stay among top countries for 'wellbeing'

Switzerland ranks third in the world in an index measuring social progress for 2015, falling behind top-ranked Norway and second-placed Sweden while slipping below its second ranked position from last year.

The index, developed by the Social Progress Imperative, a US non-profit group, gauges factors such as healthcare, education, safety, personal freedoms and access to food, water and shelter to assess what makes a country a good place to live.

Released on Thursday, the Social Progress Index 2015, scoring 133 countries with available data, aims to give a different assessment of the wealth of a country than its Gross Domestic Product.

Switzerland ranks ahead of Iceland and New Zealand, which was ranked first in 2014, in a study that concluded poverty is a more serious impediment to human wellbeing than inequality.

 While Norway, Sweden and Switzerland all have high incomes, the Social Progressive Imperative found that inequality had little relationship with social progress. Full story...

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