Thursday, May 24, 2012

OECD Better Life

www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org - 2012-05-23 - 23h-40m-24sThe OECD has a great website here that ranks countries by various health and wellbeing indicators like housing, education, jobs, health care etc.  Overall results are as follows:

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No particular surprise there, considering how well things are travelling here and how badly much of the rest of the world is going. However, one of the great features of the OECD model is that it allows the users to weight any of the inputs up or down.  So, if we weight “Work Life Balance” at 100% and everything else at 0%, this is what we get;

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On this measure Australia is ranked #31 – looks like we need to get some Danes down here to show us how to chill out.

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