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On the 15th, the Korea Deloitte Group announced that Korea ranked 17th with 89.1 points in the 2020 Social Progress Index survey published by Social Progress Imperative, a US non-profit organization. The Social Development Index It has been published annually by the Social Development Research Organization since 2013 and is one of the criteria for measuring the degree of national development. It is a concept designed to measure the degree of social development by country in terms of social and environmental aspects regardless of the size of the gross domestic product (GDP).
South Korea ranked highest since 2014, the first year in the survey, when the number of countries surveyed exceeded 100. In the category of basic needs (nutrition and medical support, water and sanitation facilities, residential environment, security personal), Korea scored 96.9 points, ranking seventh in the same category as last year. However, in the well-being sector (basic knowledge, access to information and communication, health and well-being and environmental quality), it ranked 17th with 90.1 points and 86.1 points above the 25th position in the last year. In addition, in the area of opportunities (individual rights, individual freedom and choice, inclusion of social minorities, access to higher education), it rose to 22nd place with 80.1 points, 4 steps more than last year, which ranked 26th place with 73.9 points. Specifically, in the wellness sector, the environmental quality score improved significantly from 61 points (92 °) last year to 79.8 points (80 °) this year. In the opportunity category, access to higher education was 62.5 points (15th) last year. ) To 86.4 points (3rd place) this year, a whopping 23.9 point increase.
‘The best country to live’ was Norway, which ranked first for three consecutive years until this year. According to this survey, Norway ranked eighth (96.9 points) in the category of basic needs, first (93.4 points) in the category of well-being and third (88 points) in the category of opportunities. After Norway, Denmark (2nd), Finland (3rd), New Zealand (4th), Sweden (5th), Switzerland (6th), Canada (7th), Australia (8th) and Iceland (9 °)) and the Netherlands (10th), which places western countries at the top of “the best country to live in”.
The United States ranks 28th this year and is still stagnant. The United States, which fell to 20th for the first time by ranking 25th in 2018, shows a steady decline, ranking 26th last year and 28th this year.
The top three Asian countries were Japan (13th), South Korea and China (100th) in that order. The rankings of China and Japan fell compared to last year, while Korea climbed six places from 23rd last year.
Meanwhile, the social development index of the 163 countries surveyed averaged 64.2 points, which was slightly lower than last year’s 64.5 points, but increased 3.6 points from 60.6 points in 2011.
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