“यदि आप आज पैदा हुए थे, जो देश आप के लिए एक स्वस्थ रहना बहुत अच्छा अवसर प्रदान करेगा, सुरक्षित, यथोचित समृद्ध, और upwardly मोबाइल जीवन?”

That’s the question that न्यूजवीक magazine set out to answer in a new survey of “national well-being,” स्थान पर रहीं जो 100 countries around the world on factors that included education, स्वास्थ्य, economic competitiveness, political environment, and overall quality of life.

While Canada didn’t come out at the top of the list — that honor went to Finland — Canada did rank a respectable #7. And only two points separated Canada from the highest score.

पिछले साल, एक में HSBC survey on the expat experience, कनाडा लुभा रहने के लिए दुनिया में सबसे अच्छा स्थानों की सूची में सबसे ऊपर.

में न्यूजवीक रिपोर्ट, Canada scored highest in education, रैंकिंग #2 दुनिया में, with a 99% literacy rate and with the population averaging 16.9 स्कूली शिक्षा के वर्षों.

That’s consistent with a recent कॉलेज बोर्ड जिसमें पाया गया कि रिपोर्ट Canadians rank among world’s most educated people.

The ग्लोब & मेल also reported on yet another education survey — this one from the Council of Education Ministers — which found that “Canadians are better educated than they were a decade ago and have some of the highest rates of post-secondary attendance in the developed world.”

अमेरिका, के विपरीत, पर 26 वें स्थान पर न्यूजवीक‘s education scale.

कुल, अमेरिका. पर आए थे #11, जो न्यूजवीक bemoaned in an accompanying article entitled, “अमेरिकी गिरावट को समझने के लिए कैसे,” which noted that “on any number of indicators…, the United States is not the worldbeater it was a decade ago.”

The complete Newsweek list of the world’s “best” countries includes the following top 10:

1. फ़िनलैंड
2. स्विजरलैंड
3. स्वीडन
4. ऑस्ट्रेलिया
5. लक्समबर्ग
6. नॉर्वे
7. कनाडा
8. नीदरलैंड
9. जापान
10. डेनमार्क

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