Best Countries To Be Born In

Specially in a test such as this one, since among the countries with greater living standards are many small ones in one sense or another (Luxembourg, Andorra, Singapore,...)

And if you are from the us well, canada is close and people will think of whichever nearby place they like more than their current one. (Like, canada, usa, mexico, canada, usa, mexico...hmm.. ok canada!)

If you had asked that in europe canada definitely would not score 99% because of the reason someone else discounted australia, it is far away. Not the first thing to pop into your head. Not really on people's radar, they have a good rep though, but it would be more like "what about canada?" "Ow yea, that's not bad either!"

Re the NHS - it's well-intentioned, and venerated as a sacred part of the national infrastructure, but it's under-funded and it's a huge (almost Soviet-style) bureaucracy. Quality of patient experience varies wildly - I've personally experienced both excellent and dreadful. You generally get treated as some kind of traitor if you point out that most other countries with universal healthcare seem to do it better (France is a particular good and particularly nearby example), but that doesn't stop it being true.

Impressive that the US makes the list given its lack of universal healthcare, actually - shows how highly it must score in other areas.

Apart from that great quiz

Material well-being as measured by GDP per capita (in $, at 2006 constant PPPS)

Life expectancy at birth

The quality of family life based primarily on divorce rates

The state of political freedoms

Job security (measured by the unemployment rate)

Climate (measured by two variables: the average deviation of minimum and maximum monthly temperatures from 14 degrees Celsius; and the number of months in the year with less than 30mm rainfall)

Personal physical security ratings (based primarily on recorded homicide rates and ratings for risk from crime and terrorism)

quality of community life (based on membership in social organisations)

governance (measured by ratings for corruption) gender equality (measured by the share of seats in parliament held by women)

That said, the UAE borders Saudi Arabia and Oman. Neither are "very violent." Saudi Arabia has one of the lowest violent crime rates in the world and Oman, by Middle Eastern standards, is downright pleasant. South Korea is a beautiful and peaceful country in spite of technically being at war with the north since the 1950s, and we can hope that the bluster from Pyongyang is not turned into all out catastrophe by the idiot currently occupying the White House; most analysts believe that it won't be. Germany and Scandinavia certainly have their problems, Muslim/South Asian rape gangs amongst them, though you'll find plenty of those in the UK as well. Shockingly large numbers of them, actually, many ineffectively prosecuted by police for fear of appearing racist. Meanwhile Iberia is still dealing with economic recession and massive unemployment. And they have immigrants, too.

Africa, Asia and the Americas have large predators and other violent mammals that will chase you down and kill you

The independent variables in the estimating equation for 2006 include:

Material well-being as measured by GDP per capita (in $, at 2006 constant PPPS)

Life expectancy at birth

The quality of family life based primarily on divorce rates

The state of political freedoms

Job security (measured by the unemployment rate)

Climate (measured by two variables: the average deviation of minimum and maximum monthly temperatures from 14 degrees Celsius; and the number of months in the year with less than 30mm rainfall)

Personal physical security ratings (based primarily on recorded homicide rates and ratings for risk from crime and terrorism)

Quality of community life (based on membership in social organisations)

Governance (measured by ratings for corruption)

Gender equality (measured by the share of seats in parliament held by women)

CLIMATE! yes finally a list that includes that. But... but... wtf!!?? FOURTEEN!!!?? 14 is NOT the ideal temperature. It would be maybe 25. Is this organization based in Iceland?

Material well-being, fine. Though I don't think GDP tells the whole story maybe include happiness index or suicide rates.

I would not count divorce rates as a bad thing. Having a realistic understanding of relationship dynamics and acknowledging that sometimes marriages ought to end is a good thing. Much better than, say, the Philippines where divorce is illegal. Though better to not get married at all.

Unemployment rate: probably as I guessed before a big part of why Spain is omitted.

governance: hard to measure accurately.

gender equality: Good to include. But I can think of far better ways to measure this.

If by "Palestinian" you mean non-Israeli citizen born to parents from the "West Bank"... well... even if you live out your entire life in Ramallah or Nablus, you're going to be much better off than the average Syrian, Egyptian, Iraqi or resident of Daesh and you'll enjoy much better freedoms and opportunities than residents of Saudi Arabia or Iran. And you would also have greater opportunity to become an Israeli citizen than residents of Beirut or Amman which, if you pursued, would make your life better.

If by "Palestinian" you mean resident of Gaza, yeah, that would suck.

especially Japan should be high on all the criterias plus alpha.

UAE!! It is an absolute monarchy country, you cant be a politician, you dont have bar on the streets, no horse racing betting, and the food was the worst ever etc.

Ive lived in all 3 countries plus US of course.

to me it is like asking which person is taller, but excluding some people because they are poorer. Followed by something like; yea but people with more money are "bigger" because they are more important.

If you are talking about small population say small population, not the size of the country.