Canberra ranked best place in the world to live
Australia has been voted the best country to live in in the world and the country's capital of Canberra is the best place to live according to a report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
The OECD ranked 362 regions of its 34 member nations in its survey using nine measures of wellbeing, including income, education, jobs, safety, health and environment.
Australia led the world ranking, followed by Norway, Canada, Sweden and then the US.
Even the low-performing regions in Australia fare better than the OECD average in all of the well-being measures, reports the Daily Mail.
Canberra secured the top spot in regional rankings with Sydney, Melbourne and Perth also in the top 10.
Canberra received three top 10 scores, more than any other region included on the list, for safety, income and civic engagement.
New Hampshire and Minnesota in the US also featured in the top 10.
Mexico did not do so well in the the report with 10 Mexican states constituting the bottom regional rankings.
Mexico, Turkey, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia were ranked as the hardest places to live, reports the BBC.
The OECD study, while not comprehensive, is one of the few to analyse the quality of life in countries, reports the BBC.
"Recent years have seen an increasing awareness that macro economic statistics, such as GDP do not provide policy-makers with a sufficiently detailed picture of the living conditions that ordinary people experience," the OECD said on its website.
"Developing statistics that can better reflect the wide range of factors that matter to people and their well-being (the so called "household perspective") is of crucial importance for the credibility and accountability of public policies and for the very functioning of democracy."
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