The Swedish Wire website reports that Norway was named by the United Nations on November 4, 2010 as the country with the best quality of life for the eighth time.
The UN's annual A-to-Z global wealth, poverty, health, and education highlighted in its 20th anniversary edition that it is becoming more difficult to break into the rich club of nations.
Oil-rich Norway -- with its 81.0 years of life expectancy, average annual income of $58,810, and 12.6 years of schooling -- has now topped the Human Development Index (HDI) of the UN for all but two years since 2001.
Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and Ireland respectively took the following places in the top five nations.
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