Ranked: The 44 Most Privileged Countries around the Globe

We have heard many times, “Live your life to the fullest,” that is because we do not know what is waiting for us the next day. We understood the statement better when Covid-19 entered our lives, and since then, many have lived in threat, constant fear, and anxiety, fearing another disaster like that.

However, many nations set forward a powerful example as role models during the time of the crisis by providing their residents exceptional healthcare and opportunities despite the chaos.

Determining the most privileged countries required concrete data, and hence the ABCD agency decided to study 19 different factors specifically about each nation and score them accordingly.

These factors were broadly sectioned under four specific areas. They are:

● Career opportunities – in terms of quality of the working environment, long-term unemployed, youth unemployment, population with tertiary education, social mobility, and GDP per capita.

● Liberty and life satisfaction – This includes gender equality, human rights, general life satisfaction scale, and passport strength.

● Health and safety – It includes road safety, homicides, life expectancy, air pollution, and social benefits to households.

● Finances – and the population in terms of disposable income of households per capita, the median wealth of adults, and the number of millionaires.

44 most privileged countries of the World

Hence based on the study conducted, the top 44 nations of the world that are better privileged than the others are:

1. Canada

2. Denmark

3. New Zealand

4. Sweden

5. Netherlands

6. Norway

7. Finland

8. Australia

9. Switzerland

10. Australia

11. Germany

12. Belgium

13. Ireland

14. United Kingdom

15. France

16. Portugal

17. Italy

18. Spain

19. United States

20. Japan

21. Greece

22. Poland

23. Czechia

24. Hungary

25. Singapore

26. Estonia

27. Croatia

28. Argentina

29. South Korea

30. Latvia

31. Bulgaria

32. Slovenia

33. Slovakia

34. Brazil

35. South Africa

36. Costa Rica

37. Lithuania

38. Israel

39. Iceland

40. Chile

41. Mexico

42. Russia

43. Luxembourg

44. India

The study conducted by ABCD in 2021 showcased countries like Switzerland, Luxembourg, Canada, Norway, Iceland, Germany, etc., as the top contenders with a remarkable score in terms of career, education, life satisfaction and healthcare.

Though we are pretty well aware of these top contenders, let’s look at some of the surprising new additions, which proves that every country is trying to do its best to improve its world ranking in every sphere.

Four of the most remarkable new additions to the ranking list are –

● Mexico: With a score of 25.48 in career opportunities, Mexico made a debut on the list.

● Turkey: With an overall score of 6.52, Turkey has a far better individual score in health and safety while the rest of the scores are bare minimal.

● Greece: The government doesn’t have employment opportunities; however, it has relatively high and good protection and health sectors.

● Slovakia: Almost all the country’s factors are average, but the finances are meager, with a 10.36 score.

Whether upper ranked or lower ranked, each country tries to provide excellent facilities to its people, but in some way or the other, countries lag behind in any one or two influential and vital sectors. Every nation has its potential.