{"id":11660,"date":"2016-09-26T19:26:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T19:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigrationca.staging.wpengine.com\/fr\/?p=11660"},"modified":"2016-09-26T19:26:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T19:26:03","slug":"social-progress-index-ranks-canada-sixth-advanced-country-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/social-progress-index-ranks-canada-sixth-advanced-country-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Progress Index Ranks Canada As Sixth Most Advanced Country (Audio)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A report released today confirms why Canada is a one of the most socially advanced countries in the world.\u00a0 The Social Progress Index ranks Canada 6<sup>th<\/sup> out of 133 countries an improvement from last year and the highest of any G7 nation \u2013 in the social progress index (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialprogressimperative.org\/data\/spi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/www.socialprogressimperative.org\/data\/spi<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The social progress index was developed by a leading Harvard economics academic, Michael Porter.\u00a0 It has wide endorsement by economists as a complement to measure traditional measures of gross domestic product, while tracking 52 indicators such as crime levels to literacy rates and gender equality.\u00a0 These are used to reflect whether a country is meeting the essential needs of its citizens while assessing future opportunities for its society.\u00a0 The index can be used as a complement to GDP to measure economic growth and prosperity of a country.\u00a0 It offers concrete measures to understand and prioritize an actionable agenda to advance social and economic performance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The index broad measures including basic human needs, foundations of wellbeing and opportunities for its people.\u00a0 It provides compelling evidence that Canada performs high in a number of indices while placing first in opportunity for its people.\u00a0 It receives high marks for political rights, freedom of assembly and tolerance for immigrants, women\u2019s average years of schooling, and the number of universities, high-school enrolment and low rates of crime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However Canada performs low in other measures including access to information, cell phone subscriptions (it ranks 101<sup>st<\/sup> place perhaps due to high costs and inflexible plans).\u00a0 Canada lags in obesity and suicide rates, habitat protection and water use.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Norway tops the list as the world\u2019s most socially advance nation.\u00a0 Rounding out the top five are Sweden, Switzerland, Iceland and New Zealand.\u00a0 The United States placed well back at 16<sup>th<\/sup> place.\u00a0 The lowest-ranked country is Central African Republic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The index shows that economic might does not always move in tandem with the overall health of a society.\u00a0 The analysis finds that some countries over perform in social progress relative to their GDP per capita (Costa Rica, New Zealand and Rwanda).\u00a0 Others like Saudi Arabia underperform.\u00a0 Two important measures \u2013 health and environmental sustainability do not necessarily increase as countries grow in wealth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Index confirms that GDP is \u201cfar from being the sole determinant of social progress\u201d and that holistic measures are an important determinant on the advancement of a country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Attorney Colin Singer Commentary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Indexes of this type continue to endorse Canada as a high destination for permanent residence or temporary immigration.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report released today confirms why Canada is a one of the most socially advanced countries in the world.\u00a0 The Social Progress Index ranks Canada 6th out of 133 countries an improvement from last year and the highest of any G7 nation \u2013 in the social progress index (http:\/\/www.socialprogressimperative.org\/data\/spi). 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