Here is the top 10:
1. Norway
2. Iceland
3. Australia
4. Luxemburg
5. Canada
6. Sweden
7. Switzerland
8. Ireland
9. Belgium
10. United States
http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2...05_PKE_HDI.pdf

The U.S. was ranked third in 2000 and during the Bush administration has gradually worsened to tenth.
http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2...2000_back1.pdf

Norway has held onto first place for 5 years, since it was taken from Canada in 2001.

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We beat France by one place. Made my day. Nice to see Cuba doing well too.

Apparently 55% of governments are now democracies too. Things are looking up.

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yes........23 in the world,beated greece....going to keep a hold of that.....comparing to what some people think of this country(ahem camel (*)(*)(*)(*) wine ahem),yay,

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1st place again... *Sigh*.
These kind of reports are making (most of) the Norwegian media, and thus the people, narcissistic and self-centered. Foreign news are no longer centered on what happens around the world, but what happens to Norwegians around the world. We tend to forget those under the top 10 list, those closer to the bottom, like Sierra Leone. Are we to comfortable? Perhaps, but we could be more comfortable, and more importantly, we should, and could use our cumfyness to make other people less uncomfortable. That's my opinion at least.

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Ta sasta orm mar ta eireann 8th.

Tiocagh ar La.

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"Better to die on you feet than live on your knees" - Emilio Zapata

For comparison purposes, the five worst countries are:

Niger
Sierra Leone
Burkina Faso
Mali
Chad

Lets hope they improve over the next decade.

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"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. " — John Stuart Mill

I find that very unlikely considering the major energy & financial crisises of the nex few decades

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[The U.S. was ranked third in 2000 and during the Bush administration has gradually worsened to tenth./quote]
I'm surprised it hasn't fallen farther.