In Today's Propaganda...

[bjarvis]

My dear Gov't of Canada sent me an e-mail earlier today spouting off that Canada is now #4 in the UN's Human Development Index. The top ten best countries in to live are:
1 Iceland
2 Norway
3 Australia
4 Canada
5 Ireland
6 Sweden
7 Switzerland
8 Japan
9 Netherlands
10 France

The US is #12.

The bottom ten are:
168 Congo (Democratic Republic of the)
169 Ethiopia
170 Chad
171 Central African Republic
172 Mozambique
173 Mali
174 Niger
175 Guinea-Bissau
176 Burkina Faso
177 Sierra Leone

Comments

[rsc.livejournal.com]

I was surprised not to see Somalia in that bottom ten. It looks like the competition for unlivability in central Africa is intense.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

I don't see Somalia in the list. They may not be ranked because they lack both a gov't and a local UN humanitarian team capable of collecting the statistics required for a ranking, but that's speculation on my part.