Reply #13: Those Commies over at The Economist rate USA 13th in quality of life [View All]

Ireland leads world for quality of life

UK comes 29th in global happiness survey

Owen Bowcott
Thursday November 18, 2004
The Guardian

Ireland is easily the best country in the world to inhabit, according to a quality of life survey which relegates the United Kingdom to a second-division ranking.

The ambitious attempt to compare happiness around the world is based on the principle that wealth is not the only measure of human satisfaction

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Our other large European partners like France and Germany, occupying 25th and 26th position respectively, fared little better. But smaller states, including Sweden, Italy, Denmark and Spain, all appeared in the top 10. The US, which has the second highest GDP after diminutive Luxembourg, slipped to 13th place in the survey. Other big economies did even worse. China was in the lower half of the league at 60th while Russia, where GDP is only $9,810, scraped in towards the bottom on 105th.

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