Archive for August, 2007

The Economist Intelligence Unit (which I have no idea what is) has created a list of the cities with the best “liveability”, in the world. A score of 0% means the inhabitants have an exceptional quality of life and 100% means the conditions are intolerable. Factors such as crime rate, threats from terrorism and highly developed transport and communication infrastructure have been taken into consideration. Vancouver, Canada, is no. 1 with a score of 1.3%, and guess what; our own Copenhagen got a score of 3.7%, earning it a 8^th place on the list!

I also stumbled upon another interesting article about the least religious countries, Scandinavian countries top the list and I was very happy to realize that Denmark is on the 3^rd place. A part of the article states the following:

“high levels of organic atheism are strongly correlated with high levels of societal health, such as low homicide rates, low poverty rates, low infant mortality rates, and low illiteracy rates, as well as high levels of educational attainment, per capita income, and gender equality. Most nations characterized by high degrees of individual and societal security have the highest rates of organic atheism, and conversely, nations characterized by low degrees of individual and societal security have the lowest rates of organic atheism.”

Which is even more obvious when compared to the first article. All hail Denmark.