Despite having just the 25th highest gross domestic product per capita in the world, New Zealand is a world leader in terms of opportunity, safety, personal freedom and lack of corruption among other qualities, the Social Progress Index says.
The survey of 132 countries by the Social Progress Imperative, a non-profit organisation based in the US, measures three main categories: basic human needs, the foundations of wellbeing and opportunity. Each was divided into four sections.
It puts New Zealand at the top of 132 countries surveyed, ahead of Switzerland, Iceland, the Netherlands and Norway.
New Zealand was rated the best in the world in terms of opportunity, which measures personal rights, personal freedom of choice, access to advanced education, tolerance and inclusion.
It was sixth in the foundations of wellbeing, which measures access to basic knowledge, access to information, health and wellness and ecosystem sustainability.
The biggest drag on this for New Zealand was the obesity rate, which was 115th out of the 132 countries.
New Zealand's lowest rank was in terms of basic human needs, where it was 16th.
In this area it was still best in the world in terms of access to piped water, low homicide rate and low political terror, but it was held back by being 50th in terms of affordable housing.
The rest of the top 10 was made up of north European countries, Canada, and Australia, which ranked 10th. The United Kingdom was 13th, the United States 16th, Russia 80th and China 90th.
NZ NewsWire
But as with any country led by the Zionist nose ring,its changing,slowly but surely.
Its quite a bigoted wee colonial outpost.
The native Maori lead all the negative statistics,prison,health,crime education.
5% of the population represent 95% of the above stats.When was it ever any different in a colonized country eh.
Multiculturism is having an affect.And boy do these imports have an attitude to the native population.
But hey,who am I to stomp on a fairy tale.