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USA Ranked Sixteenth-Best Country To Be Born In, Global Survey Finds
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AUSTRALIA has always been known as the lucky country, but now it is official.
A new global survey has ranked Australia the second best country to be born in, in 2013, only behind the chocolate-loving, watch-making Switzerland.
Eighty countries were ranked against 11 statistical indicators from national wealth, life expectancy, crime rates, weather, family ties and political freedom to what today's newborns can hope to earn in 2030 to compile a where-to-be-born index.
Essentially a ''lottery of life'' league table, the index found babies born in landlocked Switzerland the ''luckiest'', narrowly ahead of Australia, Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
New Zealand ranked seventh on the index, Canada 9th, the US ranked 16th well ahead of the Old Dart at 27, while researchers from the Economist Intelligence Unit - a sister research company to The Economist magazine - named Nigeria as the worst place to start life...
[link to www.news.com.au]
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