The World's Best Countries

[handmade34]

195 countries ranked by Education, Health, Quality of Life, Economic Dynamism and Political Environment... nothing really new, but interesting


http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/15/interactive-infographic-of-the-worlds-best-countries.html

[marmar]

1. Again dominated by those awful socialist Scandinavian countries

Hmmmmm...... :think:

[handmade34]

4. Finland #1

...and program this weekend named Finland as #1 in coffee consumption per capita

[tularetom]

2. I don't want to read any commie poll that doesn't say the USA is #1

In everything.

(Puts fingers in ears and shouts la la la I can't hear you).

[Ernesto]

5. Thats RIGHT!

Haven't these librals heard of AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM?

[L0oniX]

7. Yea ...the USA is EXCEPTIONALLY FUCKED now.

[patrick t. cakes]

3. Suprised the US ranked higher than Germany..

[txlibdem]

6. Especially when all but one category had Germany leading the US

Every category was higher in Germany than US except "economic dynamism" which must be weighted higher than the other categories. My guess is that it's a synonym for "how much control do labor unions have over the economy."

Germany rocks and they take care of their workers.

[Greyhound]

8. I read that and marveled at how hard they had to twist to get the U.S. on

some of those lists at all. The issues they ignored are even more telling than those they counted.

[geardaddy]

9. Meh.

Newsweek sucks.

[handmade34]

10. ok

try the UN
http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/

or science journals
http://scienceroll.com/2010/08/23/the-worlds-best-countries-health-ranking/

or

[geardaddy]

13. Your second link just references Newsweeks poll

:shrug:

[fascisthunter]

11. the USA Ranks 11th overall... ?

[Hannah Bell]

12. all these rankings are bullshit, imo. just propaganda to get us to rank & judge.

[Gaedel]

14. But, but, but...........

Finland was colonized for over a thousand years, first by the Swedes and then by the Russians.

It was colonized longer than any other nation in the world today.

Every one has to know that colonization automatically causes a country to be a third world hell hole.

[bherrera]

15. It depends on the measuring method

I think it is important to include the crime rate. If this is added, then Spain ranks higher, because we have a very low crime rate.

[mdmc]

16. ..

[Darth_Kitten]

17. I think polls like this are pretty meaningless.......

:)

I don't put too much stock in them.