Where on Earth to live & workBest Countries to Live MapThe whole world, ranked on what makes a place good to live
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Best places (green)
Good / middling (yellow)
Tough places (red)
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▦ The whole world, in one table
Click any column to sort. The Overall column reflects your current priority weights. Cells are coloured green (high) → red (low).
About the Best Countries to Live Map
This map paints every country by how good a place it is to live and work — green for the best, yellow for the middling, red for the toughest. It scores the world on 17 dimensions, from healthcare and safety to climate, food, nature and tax.
There is no single "best country" — only the best country for you. Use the ⚖️ Your priorities panel to weight what matters to you (or pick a preset like Retiree, Digital nomad or Nature lover) and the whole map rebuilds around your values. Click any dimension at the top to map just that one thing.
How the scores are built
Every score is normalised to a 0–100 scale where 100 is world-best. Subjective dimensions (landscape, climate, food, culture) are expert estimates anchored to the best available proxies; the rest are calibrated to the public indices listed above. This is an opinionated atlas and a conversation starter, not an official ranking. Corrections are warmly welcome.