Countries with the lowest income inequality, measured using the Gini coefficient, do not have the highest QoL. Table 1 Countries with the lowest value of the Gini coefficient according to the World Bank and with the ranking in the QoL according to World Happiness Report Full size table Income ...
Social structure refers to the dimensions of social groups and organizations, as well as the networks of social relationships. Quality of life encompasses both the objective and subjective aspects of well-being at the individual and collective levels. Currently, the CGSS data have become the most ...
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vast differences in approaches to the control and containment of coronavirus across the world and has demonstrated the varied success of such approaches in minimizing the transmission of coronavirus. While previous studies have demonstrated high predictive...
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Japan, Korea, Latvia*, Lithuania*, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman*, Poland*, Portugal, Saudi Arabia*, Seychelles, Singapore*, Slovakia*, Slovenia*, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates*, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay Note: * means countries alon...
The World Health Organization estimated that 4.6% of males and 6.5% of females were obese in China in 2008. This is a much lower rate than in most other OECD countries (the average for the males/females rate combined was 15.0% in OECD countries in 2010), but higher than in Japan (3.8...
Japan which boasts one of the longest life expectancies for its population in the world as also having a significantly large population of centenarians (living within the region) despite being one of the poorest regions in the country (being the bottom ranked in socioeconomic indicators for Japan...
We find metropolitan population to be one of the most significant predictors of infection rates; larger metropolitan areas have higher infection and higher mortality rates. We also find that after controlling for metropolitan population, county density is not significantly related to the infection rate,...
To bridge this gap, the study explores how AI investment influences human well-being, considers governance dimensions, and offers insights into effective policy measures. The study focuses on the G-7 countries – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and USA –as a sample. The G-7 ...
In 2007, life expectancy at birth in Canada stood at 80.7 years, more than 1 year higher than the OECD average (79.4 years in 2008) and 2 ½ years greater than in the United States (77.9 years in 2007). Still, a number of countries (e.g., Japan, Switzerland, Italy and Australia...