Maltese quality of life ranked at 7.2 according to GDP indicators
MaltaToday 21/03/2014: What is quality of life and how can its different aspects be measured appropriately?
A new online publication on Quality of life indicators
released by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union on
the occasion of the International Day of Happiness established by the
United Nations measures complement the one indicator, GDP, traditionally
used for measuring economic, and often social, development.
The top ranked country in Europe is
Denmark
which consistently tops polls of countries with the best quality of
life. Its ranking is 8.4. Other countries which score highly on the
overall experience of life are
Sweden (8.0),
Finland (8.0) Luxembourg (7.8),
Malta (7.7) and
Netherlands (7.7).
Two examples from health and education, which are important determinants of...read on.
