Sweden, Denmark, Canada are the top three.
Now a map with tourism overlayed, and corporate ownership and/or rental properties in the EU. I argue this because I know qol is amazing Italy, Spain, etc… and because I live in Spain, I can attest my quality of life is amazingly better than USA. But it’s full of airbnb’s and similar that have priced out locals by raising rent beyond the norm. My rent €1400 a month for a 2 bed place, twice what it is 100km away. If Tourists drive the economy means that you’re dealing with shops and stores that are for tourists only and not locals, prices go up, etc…
So these numbers would show me if places heavily dependent on tourism and “lower” quality of life scores, coincide.
If I understand the methodology correctly, they do not ask locals what the QoL is in their country but people from 33 countries what they think the QoL is in that country.
It measures outside perception more than the actual circumstances of living there.
If anything I would expect tourism to improve that perception.
This … doesn’t seem very useful.
“The U.S. ranks behind every other G7 economy after falling 10 places since 2018. The result shows how international perceptions can differ from economic size or geopolitical influence.”
Or actual people are just better or quicker in updating their perception of an insane bubble carrying a failing economy and a self-inflicted rapid diminishing of geopolical influence than those sticking to obsolete economic and politial models out of tradition.
