Canada's World Ranking 2013

13.11.01: Even with a Senate, we are 3rd in world ranking in the prestigious Legatum Prosperity Index.

In August, we were visiting (Baltic cruise) the countries that ranked 1st (Norway), 4th (Sweden) and 6th (Denmark) and I am pleased to be in their company.

We ranked first in Personal Freedom, second in Education, and fourth in Economy.

What took us out of 2nd position was probably Health and/or Entrepreneurship & Opportunity.
But not sure about category weightings.

Interesting to see the USA is 11th and United Kingdom is 16th.

Switzerland jumped to 2nd from 9th last year.

Denmark dropped to 6th from 2nd last year. 

Norway has been 1st for the last 5 years.

Not sure how the sub-index scores are weighted, as the sum of the 8 categories doesn't indicate ranking.