How much luck is in our lives? To understand you must discover what makes people lucky and how valuable luck is in people’s lives. Research has found that some people are lucky enough to be born in geographically, economically, and educationally-better countries.
What makes its citizens the luckiest people in the world? According to a study conducted by ABCD Agency completed in July 2021, we will describe the country with the best score when measuring four important factors.
- Career Opportunities
- Liberty and Life Satisfaction
- Safety & Health
- Finance
Countries with the luckiest people
This is the top 10 list of nations where privileges and luck have both become an integral aspect of people’s lives.
- Switzerland
- Iceland
- Norway
- Luxembourg
- Denmark
- Finland
- Australia
- Sweden
- Austria
- Netherlands
Calculating the ranking with parameters
1. Career Opportunities– In order to evaluate the level of employment in the data examined, unemployment rates from the United Nations International Labor Organisation were analyzed.
In this field Switzerland holds a score of 87.26, Iceland 93.81, Norway 100, Luxembourg 90.84, Denmark 96.57, Finland 86.44, Australia 72.30, Sweden 80.82, Austria 75.02, and the Netherlands scored 83.72.
2. Liberty and Life Satisfaction– in this field, the human rights protection score from the University of Michigan (USA) was used to assess the human rights situation.
Information on the level of satisfaction in the nations studied was taken from the world happiness report from the sustainable development solutions network.
Data from the social institutions and gender index of the organisation for economic co-operation and development (OECD) allow an assessment of the gender equality situation.
Information on the assessment of freedom to travel was taken from the global passport power rank 2021 by the financial consultancy Arton Capital.
In this field, Switzerland holds a score of 97.96, Iceland 94.17, Norway 100, Luxembourg 98.18, Denmark 99.85, Finland 98.32, Australia 77.18, Sweden 96.03, Austria 88.88, and the Netherlands scored 93.61.
3. Safety & Health– In this field, information on average life expectancy was taken from World Bank data. For health spending, data from the world health organisation on domestic general government health expenditure was analysed.
Data on mortality rates from air pollution, as well as fatal accident and homicide rates taken from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington (USA) were analysed.
In this field Switzerland holds a score of 96.31, Iceland 91.33, Norway 97.34, Luxembourg 87.03, Denmark 88.35, Finland 94.28, Australia 90.49, Sweden 96.92, Austria 91.83, and the Netherlands scored 84.95.
4. Finance-To elaborate this field, information on the level of prosperity of all nations and the number of millionaires per inhabitant were taken from bank Credit Suisse’s global wealth databook 2019 report.
Information on net national income was taken from World Bank data.
In this field Switzerland holds a score of 100, Iceland 72.49, Norway 47.11, Luxembourg 68.13, Denmark 44.04, Finland 34.41, Australia 73.41, Sweden 38.64, Austria 50.58, and the Netherlands scored 43.47.
