CANADA RANKED 2ND BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD IN 2017 | Daily Hive

What?? We beat out Norway, Denmark, New Zealand, Singapore...??!? Way to go C-A-N-A-D-A!!🍁❤️️

The study, conducted by U.S. News in partnership with Y&R’s BAV and Wharton, gives Canada the number two ranking on a list of 80 countries, only trailing this year’s #1 country, Switzerland.

From the Daily Hive:

Interestingly, Switzerland was not previously ranked when the inaugural list of the world’s best countries was released last year at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Meanwhile, last year’s #1 country, Germany, fell back to the 4th overall spot in 2017.Canada also came in #1 for Quality of Life for the second straight year as well as #4 for Citizenship (it was #2 in citizenship in 2016).

The methodology behind the rankings can be broken down as follows:

A set of 65 country attributes – terms that can be used to describe a country and that are also relevant to the success of a modern nation – were identified. Attributes by nation were presented in a survey of more than 21,000 people from across the globe. Participants assessed how closely they associated an attribute with a nation.

The attributes were then placed into nine subcategories which combined to create the best country rankings. 

Here are the 25 best countries to live in the world in 2017:

1. Switzerland
2. Canada
3. United Kingdom
4 .Germany
5. Japan
6. Sweden
7. United States of America
8. Australia
9. France
1o. Norway
11. Netherlands
12. Denmark
13. Finland
14. New Zealand
15. Singapore
16. Italy
17. Luxembourg
18. Austria
19. Spain
20. China
21. Ireland
22. United Arab Emirates
23. South Korea
24. Portugal
25. India

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