Tajikistan came 108th on the 'Sustainable Economic Development Assessment' (SEDA) ranking, following Nepal.
The 2018 Sustainable Economic Development Assessment released in July this year notes that well-being indicators in Tajikistan are the worst among the Central Asian nations.
Thus, Kazakhstan is ranked 57th, Kyrgyzstan is ranked 95th and Uzbekistan is ranked 101st. The report provides no data about Turkmenistan.
Meanwhile, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) ranks Russia 59th.
Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, Luxembourg and Denmark are the top five countries in terms of quality of life.
The Central African Republic (CAR), Chad and Yemen are at the bottom of the ranking.
BCG’s Sustainable Economic Development Assessment (SEDA), launched in 2012, is a diagnostic tool designed to provide insight into the relative well-being of a country’s citizens and how effectively a country converts wealth, as measured by income levels, into well-being. The 2018 analysis included 152 countries and used data from 2007 through 2016, They analyzed how well-being in absolute terms fared during that period and which countries made the most and the least progress.
The results from the 2018 analysis reveal that while many of the Western European countries that boast the highest scores also did so in previous analyses, the breadth and depth of the financial crisis took a toll on several of them (especially in the employment dimension). At the same time, many high-growth countries were able to improve their well-being scores despite the powerful global economic headwinds.
European countries account for 71% of the countries in the top quartile of 2018 SEDA scores.
Singapore is the only non-European nation in SEDA 2018’s top ten.
