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AUSTRALIA IS RANKED NO.2 BEST PLACE TO LIVE IN THE WORLD

Monday June 17th, 2013

Once again Australia has been recognized as one of the best places in the world to live.

In fact only a country of reindeer, oil and gas is a better place to live than Australia.

The United Nations has ranked Australia No.2 behind Norway in its annual human development index that measures the quality of life across 187 nations.

They measure factors such as life expectancy, quality of schooling, governments spending and suicide and Australia finished second for the second consecutive year.

Australia is ahead of the US (third is the Netherlands, Germany, New Zealand and Ireland.

Britain is 26th on the index and South Africa ranked 121st.

Australia’s top spot is because of several factors:

The UN’s annual human development index shows that Australia kept its No. 2 position even though across most indicators there was an improvement in life for most Australians.

Australia has one of the highest life expectancies in the world at 82 years. By contrast, it is 78.7 in the US.

Despite complaints about the nation’s schooling system, international testing of 15-year-olds shows Australian students above all but a handful of nations. Australian children ranked higher than their counterparts in Norway.

Australia has kept spending on health under control compared with other nations, giving governments scope to spend in other areas.

Source: PropertyUpdate.com.au

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