MALAYSIA RANKS 37TH ON NEWSWEEK'S BEST COUNTRY LIST

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 23 (Bernama) -- Malaysia is ranked as 37th in the world on
Newsweek magazine's "The World's Best Countries" list, which ranks top globe
nations by economy, politics, education, health and quality of life.

Among neighbours, Singapore is ranked at 20th, Thailand (58th), Philippines
(63rd) and Indonesia (73rd).

In the rating, which involves 100 countries, Finland is ranked as number
one, followed by Switzerland and Sweden.

In Newsweek's first-ever Best Countries special issue, they set out to
answer a question that is at once simple and incredibly complex - if you were
born today, which country would provide you the very best opportunity to live a
healthy, safe, reasonably prosperous, and upwardly mobile life?

For this special survey, Newsweek chose five categories of national
well-being -- education, health, quality of life, economic competitiveness, and
political environment -- and compiled metrics within these categories across 100
nations.

The magazine also listed Malaysia as the eighth best in education category
among the upper middle-income countries.

Top three of the category are Kazakhstan, Poland and Cuba.
-- BERNAMA


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