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Finland is the ‘World’s Best Country’

Tekes / Markus Sommers The Finnish education system scored top points in Newsweek comparison.
Finland has scored top points in the World’s Best Countries study carried out by the American magazine Newsweek. The ranking compared a hundred countries according to their economy, health, quality of life, education and politics.

Finland’s special strengths in the comparison were quality of life and education. The education systems were evaluated according to the citizens’ literacy and the international PISA results. Quality of life was based on equality, poverty level, safety and employment.
 
- This type of rankings go around overseas. Now we know that we are one of the world’s most competitive countries, that we have the world’s best educations system and that the Finnish people are also an extremely happy nation, comments Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb in YLE news.

Economic vitality was weighed according to the growth in service level, innovations and gross domestic product. Finland was outstripped by Singapore and the United States. The level of health was measured by WHO life expectancy estimation, where Finland ranked 17th. Japan had the world’s highest life expectancy.

Newsweek: the World's Best Countries

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