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TheySayIreland’stheBest
Irelandisthebestplaceintheworldlolivefor2005.accordingtoalifequalityrankingthatappearedinBritain.sEconomistmagazinelastweek.
TheambitiousattempttocomparehappinesslevelsaroundtheWorldisbasedol3theprinciplethatwealthisnottheonlymeasureofhumansatisfactionandwell-being.
Theindexof111countriesusesdataonincomes.health.unemployment.climate,politicalstability,jobsecurity,genderequalityaswellaswhatthemagazinecalls"freedom,familyandcommunitylife".
Despitethebadweather,troubledhealthservice.trafficcongestion,genderinequality,andthehighcostofliving.Irelandscoredanimpressive8.33pointsoutofl0.
Thatputitwellaheadofsecond-placeSwitzerland,whichmanaged8.07.Zimbabwe.troubledbypoliticalinsecurityandhunger,isratedthegloomiest,pickinguponly3.89points.
"Althoughrisingincomesandincreasedindividualchoicesarehighlyvalued,"thereportsaid."someofthefactorsassociatedwithmodernizationsuchasthebreakdownintraditionalinstitutionsandfamilyvaluesinparttakeawayfromapositiveimpact."
"Irelandwinsbecauseitsuccessfullycombinesthemostdesirableelementsofthenewwiththepreservationofcertainwarmelementsoftheold,suchasstablefamilyandcommunitylife."
Themagazineadmittedmeasuringqualityoflifeisnotastraightforwardthingtodo,andthatitsfindingswouldhavetheircritics.
N0.2onthelistisSwitzerland.Theothernationsinthetop10areNorway,Luxembourg,Sweden,Australia,Iceland,Italy,DenmarkandSpain.
TheUKisportionedatN0.29,amuchlowerpositionchieflybecauseofthesocialandfamilybreakdownrecordedinofficialstatistics.TheUS,whichhasthesecondhighestpercapitaGDPafterLuxembourg,tookthe13thplaceinthesurvey.Chinawasinthelowerhaftoftheleagueat60th.
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