hey Raoul!! check it out!

UN Human Development Index

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United Nations Development Programme rates 162 countries in terms of life expectancy, literacy and income. This year, Belgium moved up ahead of the USA! The Americans were hurt no doubt by a high level of crime, and pockets of illiteracy, such as, say, a big part of the voting population of the state of Florida, perhaps?

On the plus side, the UN report seems to side with the USA, and not the Euros, on the issue of GM foods and their use to increase agricultural production in developing countries.

UN’s Human Development Index:
Top 5

1 Norway
2 Australia
3 Canada
4 Sweden
5 Belgium

(USA was 6th)