I’m looking for perspectives on which countries most effectively combine high quality of life with low social and economic inequality.

  • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    12 hours ago

    You might want to look at the IHDI, inequality-adjusted human development index.

    It takes the life expectancy, years of education, and GNI (PPP) per capita, and adjusts it for inequality.

    Ideally it shouldn’t even take GNI into account, imho (but an economic type-agnostic system, that takes the environment into account as well).

    The top 15 is:

    1. Iceland (Nordics)

    2. Norway (Nordics)

    3. Denmark (Nordics)

    4. Switzerland (Central Europe)

    5. Netherlands (Western Europe)

    6. Belgium (Western Europe)

    7. Finland (Nordics)

    8. Germany (Central Europe)

    9. Sweden (Nordics)

    10. Ireland (Western Europe)

    11. Slovenia (Southeast Europe)

    12. Australia (Oceania)

    13. United Kingdom (Western Europe)

    14. Canada (North America)

    15. Czech Republic (Central Europe)

    The IHDI still has some issues, though, like not taking workplace democracy, environment and sustainability, and public transit into account. Had that been done, Spain probably would rise quite a bit higher.

    I’d also add that a lot of these countries have very strict immigration policies.