I’d be interested in the Where-to-retire index. The table would definitely look different. I suspect France is a bad place to do business, but a great place to retire. The UK and the US would be the total opposite. Japan would be much higher on the retirement list as well, if you can speak the language.
It’s the Economist which these days means their methodology is probably questionable. The usual macroeconomic fallacies are also present in the main article including gratuitous nonsense like this: “America, where babies will inherit the large debts of the boomer generation, languishes back in 16th place.”
Oh please:
1) even by their own questionable methodology this is not the key factor that put “America” (AKA the United States) in 16th place.
#1 Switzerland: 1.54 Total fertility rate (below replacement level of 2.1), 5% of population Muslim and growing. #80 Nigeria:5.25 total fertility rate. Source: CIA World Factbook:
What I find shocking is that Cuba is ranked 40th out of 80 countries. Cuba is ranked higher than China, Russia, India, and most of South America and Asia.
This is an interesting chart, but I don’t think it will really influence anybody’s choice of where to be born.
The difference between Switzerland and the US is about the same as the difference between the US and Brazil. Telling….
I’d be interested in the Where-to-retire index. The table would definitely look different. I suspect France is a bad place to do business, but a great place to retire. The UK and the US would be the total opposite. Japan would be much higher on the retirement list as well, if you can speak the language.
It’s the Economist which these days means their methodology is probably questionable. The usual macroeconomic fallacies are also present in the main article including gratuitous nonsense like this: “America, where babies will inherit the large debts of the boomer generation, languishes back in 16th place.”
Oh please:
1) even by their own questionable methodology this is not the key factor that put “America” (AKA the United States) in 16th place.
and
2) The debt is not a measure of generational burdens.
I’m happy.
#1 Switzerland: 1.54 Total fertility rate (below replacement level of 2.1), 5% of population Muslim and growing. #80 Nigeria:5.25 total fertility rate. Source: CIA World Factbook:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ni.html
A life of cheese full of holes and kirsch, no thanks!
What I find shocking is that Cuba is ranked 40th out of 80 countries. Cuba is ranked higher than China, Russia, India, and most of South America and Asia.