EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Ireland is the best place to live within the European Union, according to an annual United Nations report on standard of living. However, Norway comes top overall in the UN's human development index, a ranking that takes into account the domestic economy, life expectancy, literacy rates and school enrollment. Ireland, which recently voted Yes to the Lisbon Treaty, is the fifth best place in the world in which to live Niger meanwhile comes at the bottom of the list of 182 countries. Australia, Iceland and Canada round out the top four in the ranking, which is based on the most recent data available, from 2007, and so does not take into account the global economic crisis, which hit both Ireland and Iceland very hard. Ireland is the top EU country on the list, clocking in at number five, followed by the perennial winners of these sort of contests, the Netherlands and Sweden at six and seven respectively.
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Ireland is the best place to live within the European Union, according to an annual United Nations report on standard of living.
However, Norway comes top overall in the UN's human development index, a ranking that takes into account the domestic economy, life expectancy, literacy rates and school enrollment.
Ireland, which recently voted Yes to the Lisbon Treaty, is the fifth best place in the world in which to live
Niger meanwhile comes at the bottom of the list of 182 countries.
Australia, Iceland and Canada round out the top four in the ranking, which is based on the most recent data available, from 2007, and so does not take into account the global economic crisis, which hit both Ireland and Iceland very hard.
Ireland is the top EU country on the list, clocking in at number five, followed by the perennial winners of these sort of contests, the Netherlands and Sweden at six and seven respectively.
