According to USA Today the safest place in the world is Iceland, which ranks number one on the 2022 Global Peace Index. Iceland, with a score of 1.107, has held this position on the GPI for over a decade.
[The United States is ranked 129th.]
The top 10 safest places in the world to live are:
1. Iceland2. New Zealand
3. Ireland
4. Denmark
5. Austria
6. Portugal
7. Slovenia
8. Czech Republic
9. Singapore
10. Japan
The top 10 safest places to live in the United States are:
1 Vermont
2 Maine
3 New Hampshire
4 Utah
5 Hawaii
6 Massachusetts
7 Connecticut
8 Minnesota
9 Washington
10 Rhode Island
The top 10 happiest places to live in the world are:
1. Finland
2. Denmark
3. Iceland
4. Switzerland
5. Netherlands
6. Luxembourg
7. Sweden
8. Norway
9. Israel
10 New Zealand
For the fifth year in a row, Finland is the world’s happiest country, according to World Happiness Report rankings based largely on life evaluations from the Gallup World Poll.
The Nordic country and its neighbors Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland all score very well on the measures the report uses to explain its findings: healthy life expectancy, GDP per capita, social support in times of trouble, low corruption and high social trust, generosity in a community where people look after each other and freedom to make key life decisions.
Denmark comes in at No. 2 in this year’s rankings, followed by Iceland at No. 3. Sweden and Norway are seventh and eighth, respectively.
Switzerland, the Netherlands and Luxembourg take places 4 through 6, with Israel coming in at No. 9 and New Zealand rounding out the top 10.
Canada (No. 15), the United States (No. 16) and the United Kingdom (No. 17) all made it into the top 20.
[I'm seeing a trend here between cold weather and happiness! OH NO!]
Top 10 smartest countries in the world by IQ:
1. Japan
2. Taiwan
3. Singapore
4. Hong Kong
5. China
6. South Korea
7. Belarus
8. Finland
9. Liechtenstein
10. Germany
[The United States ranks 28th]
Top 20 higher education systems in the world:
1 Finland
2 Japan
3 South Korea
4 Denmark
5 Russia
6 Norway
7 United Kingdom
8 Israel
9 Sweden
10 Hong Kong
11 Netherlands
12 Belgium
13 Germany
14 China
15 Singapore
16 Portugal
17 Hungary
18 Estonia
19 France
20 United States
Top 20 countries in health care:
1. Denmark
2. Norway
3. Switzerland
4. Sweden
5. Finland
6. Netherlands
7. New Zealand
8. Germany
9 Luxembourg
10. Austria
11. Iceland
12. Ireland
13. United Kingdom
14. Canada
15. Singapore
16. Australia
17. Hong Kong
18. United States
19. Japan
20. Taiwan
[Please note that the United States spends more on Health Care than any other country yet ranks 18th.]
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[Please note that although the United States spends more than any other country on health care its life expectancy is lower than all others.]
1. United States
2. Luxembourg
3. Switzerland
4. Germany
5. Australia
6. Norway
7. Austria
8. Belgium
9. Netherlands
10. Canada
Top 10 wealthiest countries:
2. China - $11.22 Tn
3. Japan - $4.94 Tn
4. Germany - $3.48 Tn
5. United Kingdom - $2.65 Tn
6. France - $2.47 Tn
7. India - $2.26 Tn
8. Italy - $1.86 Tn
9. Brazil - $1.80 Tn
10. Canada - $1.53 Tn
Top 10 countries in fire arm-related deaths:
1. Brazil
2. United States
3. Mexico
4. India
5. Columbia
6. Philippines
7. Guatemala
8. Nigeria
9. Iraq
10. Ethiopia
Top 10 countries in drug abuse related deaths:
1. United States
2. Canada
3. Australia
4. Libya
5. Nigeria
6. Estonia
7. Russia
8. Cameroon
9. Arab Emirates
10. Finland
Top 10 countries in alcohol related deaths:
1. Belarus
2. Mongolia
3. Russia
4. Guatemala
5. Slovenia
6. El Salvador
7. Ukraine
8. Poland
9. Latvia
10. Estonia
(The United States ranks 28th in alcohol related deaths)
I think if anyone takes some time to scrutinize these numbers one might come to some alarming conclusions about where they live and how our government spends our tax dollars. This downslide didn't happen overnight. It's been happening for decades. It happened on BOTH sides of the aisles! There was a time when the United States ranked on top of everything including education and healthcare. Now our claim to fame seems to be that we are a military superpower. Yes, that's important, but so are other things. What about poverty and the homeless? We still have starving people in this country. Once our country was a much safer place to live and if I remember correctly people seemed happier and less proned to violence. Children played outside and didn't have to fear for things like school shootings. Now the world is such a fractured place to live. We can't all move to the Nordic countries to find peace and happiness, can we? So what are they doing that we aren't doing? What's the solution? We can't turn back the hands of time, but what we can do is hold the people we vote in office accountable for the state of our union. They are voted there to represent us, the people of this country and it's time they start doing their job and stop fucking around. GET THE JOB DONE!