[Peace-discuss] Live long & prosper

[C. G. Estabrook]

[One of the main authors of the 2007 report, Will Inboden, was a senior 
white-house official in the administration of George W. Bush.  --CGE]

	Prosperity Index

The 2009 Legatum Prosperity IndexTM is the world's only  global assessment of 
wealth and wellbeing. The Index finds that the most prosperous nations in the 
world are not necessarily those that have only a high GDP, but are those that 
also have happy, healthy, and free citizens. Now in its third year, the Index 
builds on the previous versions with expanded data and refined analysis and 
assesses 104 nations covering 90 percent of the world’s population.

The top 10 countries are: 1)  Finland  2) Switzerland  3) Sweden 4) Denmark  5) 
Norway  6) Australia 7) Canada  8) Netherlands  9) United States  10) New Zealand

The bottom 10 countries are: 95) Kenya  96) Algeria  97) Tanzania  98) Nigeria 
99) Pakistan  100) Cameroon  101=) Central African Republic  101=) Yemen   103) 
Sudan  104) Zimbabwe

THE NEW 2009 LEGATUM PROSPERITY INDEX can be found online, complete with 
rankings of all 104 countries, key findings, country profiles, and easy-to-use 
tools for analysing data and creating customised reports.

http://www.li.com/ProsperityIndex.aspx