Mapped: The Most Privileged People in the World

Covid-19 has massively restructured the global economy. Internal changes played a vital role in making and breaking the overall well-being of nations across the world.

However, many countries were not as affected or actually recovered very well and are now deemed as home to the most privileged people in the world.

A study was conducted, where data from 44 nations worldwide were examined to select the countries with the luckiest people.

The factors to determine the luckiest people

Financial strength: The financial stability and wealth of a country can be measured by its GDP (growth domestic product), which determines the government’s value of products and services. The factors considered in this study to measure a country’s finances include disposable income per capita, median wealth, number of millionaires and the population of the country.
Freedom of Choice: Freedom is a privilege a rare few nations have. The factors taken into consideration under this category include human rights, gender equality, life satisfaction, and freedom to travel.
Safety and health: Population density, homicide risk, road safety, life expectancy, air pollution and social cohesion were taken into consideration for this factor.
Education and employment opportunities: Education is another factor that is very important for any country to grow alongside career prospects. Sub factors studied under this category included youth unemployment, long-term unemployment, income inequality, work environment quality, social mobility, and GDP per capita.

The most Privileged Countries around the Globe based on each of the influential factors

Let us have a look at the countries who topped the list in different fields of investigation:

Career Opportunities: Norway scored 100, where social mobility is highest, and youth unemployment is lowest. Denmark followed next with a score of 96.57. The other 3 top rankers were Iceland at 93.81, Luxembourg at 90.84, and Switzerland at 87.26.
Freedom: Here again, Norway took away the number 1 with a score of 100, where it ranks highest on the scale for general life satisfaction.
With a score of 99.85, Denmark came second highest, followed by Finland at 98.32, Luxembourg at 98.18, and Switzerland at 97.96.
Safety and health: Canada came in first position with a 100 score in this aspect. Close second place holder was France with 98.64. The next 3 top contenders were Spain with 98.27, Italy with 97.74, and Norway with 97.34.
Finances: Switzerland took the spot here due to its high percentage (11.8%) of millionaires by percentage of adult population. It also scored highest for the median wealth of adults. The other 4 top position holders for finances were Australia, Iceland, the United States and Luxembourg.

The study was conducted on over 40 nations worldwide, the list of all the luckiest countries of 2021 in no specific order are: