The quality of life in 2020 has dropped in all the countries in the world. This is going to be a very tough year for the world, so there are necessary concerted and decisive response to the global and local problems. This work will not be focused on the problems that all the countries in the world are facing now and not even on the necessary solutions, but will be focused on the ranking of the countries by quality of life.
Many people think that quality of life is the same of GDP per capita, but this is not true. The quality of life does not necessary increase when the GDP per capita increase, because it depends from many factors, as economic factors, social factors, climatic factors etc. So, after this short explanation, let’s see now which are the best and worst countries to live in 2020.
The best country in the world to live in 2020 is Denmark, followed by Switzerland, Finland, Australia and Netherlands. United States of America occupy fourteenth place and United Kingdom occupy twentieth place. Instead, the worst country in the world to live in 2020 is Nigeria, followed by Bangladesh, Kenya, Iran and Sri Lanka.
| Rank | Country | QOL Index |
| 1 | Denmark | 192,7 |
| 2 | Switzerland | 192,0 |
| 3 | Finland | 190,2 |
| 4 | Australia | 186,2 |
| 5 | Netherlands | 183,7 |
| 6 | Austria | 182,5 |
| 7 | Iceland | 181,8 |
| 8 | New Zealand | 181,0 |
| 9 | Germany | 179,8 |
| 10 | Estonia | 177,8 |
| 11 | Sweden | 176,0 |
| 12 | Norway | 175,2 |
| 13 | Slovenia | 172,2 |
| 14 | United States | 172,1 |
| 15 | Spain | 169,8 |
| 16 | Japan | 168,0 |
| 17 | Oman | 167,1 |
| 18 | Canada | 163,5 |
| 19 | Portugal | 162,9 |
| 20 | United Kingdom | 162,7 |
| 21 | Qatar | 162,3 |
| 22 | Lithuania | 159,4 |
| 23 | Croatia | 159,0 |
| 24 | United Arab Emirates | 156,7 |
| 25 | Czech Republic | 156,2 |
| 26 | France | 154,0 |
| 27 | Ireland | 153,5 |
| 28 | Belgium | 153,5 |
| 29 | Slovakia | 152,5 |
| 30 | Saudi Arabia | 150,6 |
| 31 | Latvia | 150,0 |
| 32 | Israel | 149,9 |
| 33 | Cyprus | 147,9 |
| 34 | Singapore | 144,4 |
| 35 | Taiwan | 143,2 |
| 36 | Poland | 141,8 |
| 37 | Italy | 140,8 |
| 38 | South Korea | 139,0 |
| 39 | Belarus | 134,8 |
| 40 | Greece | 133,1 |
| 41 | Romania | 132,4 |
| 42 | South Africa | 132,0 |
| 43 | Bulgaria | 129,8 |
| 44 | Hungary | 128,2 |
| 45 | Turkey | 127,1 |
| 46 | Uruguay | 126,0 |
| 47 | Ecuador | 125,1 |
| 48 | Bosnia And Herzegovina | 121,9 |
| 49 | Chile | 119,8 |
| 50 | Mexico | 118,6 |
| 51 | Malaysia | 118,4 |
| 52 | Serbia | 116,3 |
| 53 | Georgia | 116,0 |
| 54 | Kuwait | 115,8 |
| 55 | Argentina | 115,3 |
| 56 | Jordan | 112,4 |
| 57 | North Macedonia | 110,5 |
| 58 | India | 108,6 |
| 59 | Panama | 108,4 |
| 60 | Lebanon | 106,6 |
| 61 | Colombia | 105,8 |
| 62 | Brazil | 105,7 |
| 63 | Morocco | 105,5 |
| 64 | Pakistan | 105,4 |
| 65 | Ukraine | 104,8 |
| 66 | China | 102,8 |
| 67 | Russia | 102,3 |
| 68 | Thailand | 101,9 |
| 69 | Hong Kong | 99,1 |
| 70 | Indonesia | 97,5 |
| 71 | Kazakhstan | 88,3 |
| 72 | Vietnam | 87,5 |
| 73 | Egypt | 86,5 |
| 74 | Peru | 85,5 |
| 75 | Philippines | 85,4 |
| 76 | Sri Lanka | 85,2 |
| 77 | Iran | 74,1 |
| 78 | Kenya | 70,6 |
| 79 | Bangladesh | 70,0 |
| 80 | Nigeria | 55,7 |
In the rank of the best and worst countries to live in 2020 are included only the countries for which there were public information about the quality of life.
About the data used in this work
Quality of life index is an estimation of overall quality of life. It is calculated by using an empirical formula that takes in consideration the purchasing power index, pollution index, house price to income ratio, cost of living index, safety index, health care index, traffic commute time index and climate index. The higher is the value of the index, better is the quality of life. The data used in this work are provided by Numbeo and are relating to 2020.