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The World’s Best Countries

And the best country in the world is... Finland!

How do you determine which country on Earth is the best? There are so many ways of measuring and so many variables to measure, and the purpose of which you need such measurements also influences which country comes out as the best. Newsweek attempts to rank the world's countries based on several indicators such as education, health, quality of life, economic dynamism and political environment, then aggregating and averaging the scores together to create an index. Of course such numbers are rather arbitrary and need to be taken with a pinch of salt, but it gives a good idea as to where each country stands overall.

View the interactive infographic to see where each country stands, out of 100 countries. I shall cite several countries here for your reference, and see if you agree or disagree with their findings.

Overall Rankings
1. Finland
2. Switzerland
3. Sweden
4. Australia
9. Japan
11. United States
14. United Kingdom
15. South Korea
20. Singapore
37. Malaysia
58. Thailand
59. China
73. Indonesia

Singapore's Performance (Rank, Score)
Overall - 20th, 80.94
Education - 4th, 95.60
Health - 7th, 92.76
Quality of Life - 23rd, 80.00
Economic Dynamism - 1st, 83.06
Political Environment - 67th, 53.62

Well, Singapore's performance seems to fit in with our expectations and observations in daily life doesnt it?