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Published by the UN Development Programme, ranks countries according to their score on the human development index, which takes many factors incl life expectancy, education and income per head into account. In other words: how do Aus and NZ measure up, is my choice of host country a good one based on these independent criteria?!! (Loads of info, check it out at http://hdr.undp.org/) - top 40

1 Norway
2 Sweden
3 Canada
4 Belgium
5 Australia
6 United States
7 Iceland
8 Netherlands
9 Japan
10 Finland
11 Switzerland
12 France
13 United Kingdom
14 Denmark
15 Austria
16 Luxembourg
17 Germany
18 Ireland
19 New Zealand
20 Italy
21 Spain
22 Israel
23 Hong Kong,China (SAR)
24 Greece
25 Singapore
26 Cyprus
27 Korea, Rep. of
28 Portugal
29 Slovenia
30 Malta
31 Barbados
32 Brunei Darussalam
33 Czech Republic
34 Argentina
35 Hungary
36 Slovakia
37 Poland
38 Chile
39 Bahrain
40 Uruguay