Appendix: Finland among the best in the world
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 December 2023
Summary
Statistics Finland produces a handy annual list of areas in which Finland is deemed to excel. It was last fully updated on 5 December 2018, although a few more items were added on 6 December 2019. The source for all the claims found below can be found in the update: http://www.stat.fi/tup/ tilastokirjasto/itsenaisyyspaiva-2019_en.html, and in the original list: http:// www.stat.fi/tup/satavuotias-suomi/suomi-maailman-karjessa_en.html.
Finland is a small country on a global scale. It accounts for just 0.07 per cent of both the world's total population and exactly the same global share of its total land area. But even a small country can jump to the top of the world, and this is what Finland has done: in international country comparisons of positive things, Finland is often among the top countries next to other Nordic countries.
In honour of Finland's centenary celebrations, Statistics Finland collected a list of comparisons in which Finland is one of the best in the world. The list was last updated on 5 December 2018, when Finland was for the last day one hundred years old.
Society
• Finland is the most stable country in the world.
• Finland is the safest country in the world.
• Finland is the fourth “best” country in the world. (The Good Country Index).
• Finland had the best governance in the world in 2018 (and ranked second best in 2019).
• Finland's police and internal security as a whole are the second best in the world.
• Finland has the lowest level of organized crime in the world.
• Next to Norwegians and Icelanders, Finns are the second least insecure-feeling people in the world.
• Finland's judicial system is the most independent in the world.
• After the Danes, Finns’ elections are the freest and most reliable in the world.
• Finland has the third lowest level of corruption in the world.
• Finland is the third most prosperous country in the world.
• Protection of property rights in Finland is the best in the world.
• Access to official information in Finland is the best in the EU.
• Finnish banks are the soundest in the world.
• Finland's pension system is the third-best in the world (in a field of 34 countries).
• Finland has the third highest levels of personal freedom and choice in the world.
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- FinntopiaWhat We Can Learn from the World's Happiest Country, pp. 249 - 256Publisher: Agenda PublishingPrint publication year: 2020