The empirical fact, easily and freely accessible to anyone who can do as much as a goggle search, is that the Scandinavian countries (Norway, Sweden, Denmark and for all intensive purposes Finland, Iceland and Netherlands) ARE...
...at the top (or the top category) of pretty much EVERY meaningful metric of human well-being LIKE...
- List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita
- List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita
- Multidimensional Poverty Index
- List of countries by income equality (Gini Coefficents)
- Nordic model of Welfare State
- Human Development Index
- Corruption Perceptions Index
- The Legatum Prosperity Index
- Democracy Index (The Economists')