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Appendix: Finland among the best in the world

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2023

Danny Dorling  and
Annika Koljonen
Danny Dorling
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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Summary

Statistics Finland produces a handy annual list of areas in which Finland is deemed to excel. It was last fully updated on 5 December 2018, although a few more items were added on 6 December 2019. The source for all the claims found below can be found in the update: http://www.stat.fi/tup/ tilastokirjasto/itsenaisyyspaiva-2019_en.html, and in the original list: http:// www.stat.fi/tup/satavuotias-suomi/suomi-maailman-karjessa_en.html.

Finland is a small country on a global scale. It accounts for just 0.07 per cent of both the world's total population and exactly the same global share of its total land area. But even a small country can jump to the top of the world, and this is what Finland has done: in international country comparisons of positive things, Finland is often among the top countries next to other Nordic countries.

In honour of Finland's centenary celebrations, Statistics Finland collected a list of comparisons in which Finland is one of the best in the world. The list was last updated on 5 December 2018, when Finland was for the last day one hundred years old.

Society

  • • Finland is the most stable country in the world.

  • • Finland is the safest country in the world.

  • • Finland is the fourth “best” country in the world. (The Good Country Index).

  • • Finland had the best governance in the world in 2018 (and ranked second best in 2019).

  • • Finland's police and internal security as a whole are the second best in the world.

  • • Finland has the lowest level of organized crime in the world.

  • • Next to Norwegians and Icelanders, Finns are the second least insecure-feeling people in the world.

  • • Finland's judicial system is the most independent in the world.

  • • After the Danes, Finns’ elections are the freest and most reliable in the world.

  • • Finland has the third lowest level of corruption in the world.

  • • Finland is the third most prosperous country in the world.

  • • Protection of property rights in Finland is the best in the world.

  • • Access to official information in Finland is the best in the EU.

  • • Finnish banks are the soundest in the world.

  • • Finland's pension system is the third-best in the world (in a field of 34 countries).

  • • Finland has the third highest levels of personal freedom and choice in the world.

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Finntopia
What We Can Learn from the World's Happiest Country
 , pp. 249 - 256
Publisher: Agenda Publishing
Print publication year: 2020

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