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Do we prosper?

Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 3:12 am
by Gob
The Legatum Prosperity Index is the world's only global assessment of wealth and wellbeing; unlike other studies that rank countries by actual levels of wealth, life satisfaction or development, the Prosperity Index produces rankings based upon the very foundations of prosperity those factors that will help drive economic growth and produce happy citizens over the long term.


The 2010 rankings

1 Norway
2 Denmark
3 Finland
4 Australia
5 New Zealand
6 Sweden
7 Canada
8 Switzerland
9 Netherlands
10 United States
11 Ireland
12 Iceland
13 United Kingdom


http://www.prosperity.com/

Re: Do we prosper?

Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 5:11 am
by rubato
No big surprises there.

The US is ranked higher than I would have expected by many measures, but weighting each factor is a bit arbitrary.

We could improve a lot.

yrs,
rubato