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Iceland best place to live, Africa worst: UN
« on: November 27, 2007, 11:52:09 AM »
 BRASILIA (Reuters) - Iceland has overtaken Norway as the world's most desirable country to live in, according to an annual U.N. table published on Tuesday that again puts AIDS-afflicted sub-Saharan African states at the bottom.
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Rich free-market countries dominate the top places, with Iceland, Norway, Australia, Canada and Ireland the first five but the United States slipping to 12th place from eighth last year in the U.N. Human Development Index.

But the index, blending 2005 figures for life expectancy, educational levels and real per capita income, finds that all 22 countries falling into its "low human development" category are in sub-Saharan Africa, with Sierra Leone last.

In 10 of these countries, two children in five will not reach the age of 40, said the compilers at the U.N. Development Program. Last year's report said HIV/AIDS had had a "catastrophic effect" on life expectancy in the region.

The index ranks 175 U.N. member countries plus Hong Kong and the Palestinian territories. It does not include 17 countries, including Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia, because of inadequate data.

Norway had held top spot for six years but was edged into second place by Iceland this year because of new life expectancy estimates and updated figures for gross domestic product, or GDP, the report said.

U.N. officials played down the significance of minor short-term shifts in the rankings including the slide in the U.S. position. They said if subsequent data for the year in question been available for last year's report, the United States would have been in 10th, not eighth place.

The United States scores high on real per capita GDP, which at $41,890 is second only to that of Luxembourg ($60,228), but less well on life expectancy -- joint last in the top 26 countries, along with Denmark and South Korea, at 77.9 years.

Japanese have the longest life expectancy -- 82.3 years -- and Zambians the lowest, at 40.5.

The report said most countries had seen their human development index rise over the last 30 years, but in 16 it was lower than in 1990, and in three -- the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia and Zimbabwe -- lower than in 1975.

Per capita GDP is 45 times higher in Iceland than in Sierra Leone.

The United Nations has published its human development index every year since 1990.

(Writing by Patrick Worsnip at the United Nations, editing by Cynthia Osterman)
 

AndrE16686

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Re: Iceland best place to live, Africa worst: UN
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2007, 07:36:03 PM »
Rich free-market countries dominate the top places, with Iceland, Norway, Australia, Canada

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Re: Iceland best place to live, Africa worst: UN
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2007, 07:38:08 PM »
Rich free-market countries dominate the top places, with Iceland, Norway, Australia, Canada

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Your from Australia?
 

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Re: Iceland best place to live, Africa worst: UN
« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2007, 03:04:25 PM »
most definately.

 

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Re: Iceland best place to live, Africa worst: UN
« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2007, 03:40:59 PM »
most definately.


LMAO! thats cool BUT THE PIC HAS TO BE ONE OF THE FUNNIEST PICS I"VE SEEN. HE looks like hes straight chilling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1+
 

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Re: Iceland best place to live, Africa worst: UN
« Reply #5 on: November 28, 2007, 05:59:55 PM »
I'd kick it in Iceland.
 

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Re: Iceland best place to live, Africa worst: UN
« Reply #6 on: November 28, 2007, 08:31:35 PM »
I heard if you go out it's like $18 a beer there.  I hope they get paid a lot more out there cause that's fucking ridiculous.  And Iceland shouldn't even really count, don't they have like only 300k people living there? 
 

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Re: Iceland best place to live, Africa worst: UN
« Reply #7 on: December 01, 2007, 11:29:12 AM »
America should be best.
 

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« Reply #8 on: December 01, 2007, 11:40:57 AM »
America should be best.
Not when your dealing with reality :)
 

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« Reply #9 on: December 03, 2007, 07:19:05 PM »