{"id":949,"date":"2003-07-07T23:20:21","date_gmt":"2003-07-08T03:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/07\/07\/us-passes-canada-in-quality-of-life\/"},"modified":"2003-07-07T23:20:21","modified_gmt":"2003-07-08T03:20:21","slug":"us-passes-canada-in-quality-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/07\/07\/us-passes-canada-in-quality-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"US Passes Canada in Quality of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a206'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The United States moved up to 7th place in the just-released UN Quality of Life Index. The UN rankings include life expectancy, education, health, income, poverty and the environment. <\/p>\n<p>Norway ranked first, followed by Iceland, Sweden, Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium and the United States. <\/p>\n<p>Among the 175 countries ranked, the bottom 25 are in Africa. Sierra Leone ranks last, with an average life expectancy of only 34 years. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/story\/CTVNews\/1057578709401_11\/?hub=Canada\">Details&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States moved up to 7th place in the just-released UN Quality of Life Index. The UN rankings include life expectancy, education, health, income, poverty and the environment. Norway ranked first, followed by Iceland, Sweden, Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/07\/07\/us-passes-canada-in-quality-of-life\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}