Norway Best Place to Live In, Bulgaria 58th
Novinite.com, 08.11.2010
Bulgaria is the fifty-eighth best country in the world to live in, according to an annual UN rating, with Norway topping the list yet again.
The assessment came in a so-called human development index, a measure of wellbeing published by the UN Development Program for the past 20 years that combines individual economic prosperity with education levels and life expectancy.
Norway does not top any individual category -- average income in Liechtenstein is a wallet-busting 81,011 dollars and Japan's life expectancy is 83.6 years -- but Norway's all-round performance gave it superiority in the UN Development Program (UNDP) 20th annual rankings. Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Ireland followed at the top of the standings. Zimbabwe came in last among the 169 nations ranked, behind Mozambique, Burundi, Niger and Democratic Republic of Congo. Bulgaria made its way to spot number 58 out of 169 countries in the list, up by three spots in comparison with its ranking last year.