“如果你今天出生, which country would provide you the very best opportunity to live a healthy, 安全, reasonably prosperous, 和向上移动生活?”

That’s the question that “新闻周刊” magazine set out to answer in a new survey of “national well-being,” 名列其中 100 countries around the world on factors that included education, 健康, 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.

去年, 在 HSBC survey on the expat experience, 加拿大荣登外国人生活在世界上最好的地方名单.

在 “新闻周刊” 报告, Canada scored highest in education, 排名 #2 在世界, with a 99% literacy rate and with the population averaging 16.9 年的学校教育.

That’s consistent with a recent 学院董事会 报告发现， Canadians rank among world’s most educated people.

该 全球 & 邮件 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.”

美国, in contrast, 排名第26位上 “新闻周刊”‘s education scale.

整体, 在中美. 进来了在 #11, è¿™ “新闻周刊” bemoaned in an accompanying article entitled, “如何理解美国的衰落,” which noted that “on any number of indicators…, the United States is not the worldbeater it was a decade ago.”

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

1. 芬兰
2. 瑞士
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4. 澳大利亚
5. 卢森堡
6. 挪威
7. 加拿大
8. 荷兰
9. 日本
10. 丹麦

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