Best countries to live in according to the UN
 

The top of the list of best countries to live in according to the United Nations, for 2003:

#1 Norway
#2 Iceland
#3 Sweden
#4 Australia
#5 The Netherlands
#6 Belgium
#7 The U.S.
#8 Canada
#9 Japan
#10 Switzerland
#11 Denmark
#12 Ireland
#13 United Kingdom
#14 Finland
#15 Luxembourg

The bottom:

#161 Cote d'Ivoire
#162 Malawi
#163 Zambia
#164 Angola
#165 Chad
#166 Guinnea-Bissau
#167 Congo
#168 Central African Republic
#169 Ethiopia
#170 Mozambique
#171 Burundi
#172 Mali
#173 Burkina Faso
#174 Niger
#175 Sierra Leone


Th entire report:
http://www.undp.org/hdr2003/pdf/pres...03_PKE_HDI.pdf

US came before canada :eek7

yesss!!!!!!! Eat that CANADA!!!!!!!




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Yeah, that made me wonder too.

#13 United Kingdom :glugglug :1orglaugh

Errr? Bollocks :2 cents:

My thoughts exactly!!

Shaddup Shok! :))

based on what in comparison to whom first?

Norway is good, not if you are in porn though :winkwink:

Edit:
It's based on life expectancy, adult literacy, gross enrollment rate and GDP per capita.

Formula is this:

x = (life expectancy in years) - 25 / 85 - 25
y = (2/3 * (adult literacy rate / 100)) + (1/3 * (combined gross enrollment ratio) / 100)
z = (log(GDP per capita in US$) - log(100)) / (log(40000) - log(100))

HDI = 1/3x+1/3y+1/3z

Canada was #1 couple of years in a row... what the fuck happened... :helpme

Sierra Leone is not that bad :glugglug

racists

Iceland at number 2?

lol?

The sad part of that is the fact that every nation at the bottom of the list is in Africa. And most Northern Africa. Unspeakable things happen in those countries that the rest of the world doesn't talk about. There is a thriving slave trade in West Africa to this day, young children are sold into slavery by the thousands after theyre either sold by their parents or kidnapped from their villages. AIDS is out of control and will only get worse exponentially. Civil wars are happening in numerous countries, with the longest running civil war in history still raging for over 20 years in the Sudan and taking something like 2 million lives. Poverty, hunger, crime....

Really sad state of affairs.

UN motherfuckers, Iraq is not on the list at all :321GFY

I wonder what they factors they used to determine this

And if you had read the whole thread, you'd know.

Correct, USA did cum before Canada. That means Canada lasts longer and has more stamina. That's why there are so many hot chicks up here. :D

lol

Apparently the UN likes paying 70-80% taxes.

Africa is run by Africans? No?

lol

Norway is the absolute NUMBER ONE ... if you don't like warm sandy beaches and beautiful exotic girls bringing you "Sex on the Beach" cocktails :winkwink:

Those top countries are just too damn cold. Australia and the States are the only ones that I would want to live in year round. Those other countries are great, but only seasonal.

Im calling shananagins!!!!

look at the worst countries..
wheres Iraq.. id have to think it would be down theree with all the killing looting and pillaging:2 cents:

shit im american and i would put many of those below the usa in front of the usa...i live in slovakia now and i put it way about the usa...idiots...

Sing it loud and proud my Canadian brotha! =)

HAHA of course. How else does the UN get money ??

:1orglaugh

All the Americans came back to the States?

You are correct. If people think Saddam is bad, some of the guys running the show in those counties in north africa make Saddam look like a Kindergarten teacher. Things like mass genocide, forcing 8 year old children to join the army, the list of atrocities goes on and on and on. Wonder when Bush is going to go remove their scourge from the world.

Oh wait sorry, they don't have oil! :P

haha no I think they all got lost in the snow somewhere....lol:1orglaugh

Iraq is an elementary school playground compared to the atrocities in some african countries. Perpetrated by their own people against their own people.

Like the 20 mass graves unearthed in the Congo, freshly filled with close to 1,000 victims of genocidal massacres.

Like the 3.3 million people who have died in Congo since 1998 ? to say nothing of the horror stories of macheted infants, incinerated villages and soldiers cannibalizing their victims.

http://www.eastandard.net/archives/A...2082003002.htm
http://justworldnews.org/archives/000139.html
http://www.africashope.com/news_massacre.htm
http://www.boston.com/news/world/afr...e_rises_to_65/
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0307/p09s01-woaf.html

Wanna talk about something that needs to be wiped out. THIS shit needs intervention. It's not going to happen though so I'm not holding my breath. It's pretty easy to say that Saddam was such a horrible guy taken on his own merits and what he did, and he WAS. But what about all the other dictators that are doing this shit to their own people and continue to do so to this very day?

Yep, it's fair.

the weather this year is shocking many people :1orglaugh

Yes eat that US.

:winkwink:

No. Africa is run by top countries on the list.

so satisfied in Slovakia ? :thumbsup
where are you living, in Bratislava?

WOW Ireland came before UK. I'm very surprised at that.

They changed the formula for making such a determination.

Once the formula changed, so did the results.

No oil :glugglug

I agree with you Sweden is cold(where I live)-- norway probably colder and Icleand is the coldest of them all.


btw, I took a walk with my dog this morning when I come back the temprature showed -11 F/-24 C outside.

:helpme

Do you guys know where Brazil is in that list?? I would imagine around 80, but I can't open it... :(

So I live in the #5 best country of the world? Feeling pretty privileged

better than -40 C, right? :1orglaugh

Of course, and no amount of children being slaughtered every single minute of every single day will change that one, little, inescapable detail.

It's a 65, so that's better then you expected

Hmmm --

Still waiting for the UN to take a stand or do, well, anything.

Stand up -- the leaders of international politics, purveyors of truth and equality, and human rights activists!





No wait...

It won't happen.

Had a guy in my high school class that came from Sierra. He went from #175 - #3.
Talked good swedish. Smart move I think.

:glugglug

Where do Canada and the UN stand on doing something about this issue?

What have either done?

Exactly.
The U.N. won't do much of anything.