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Frequently Asked Questions
General
What is the Legatum Prosperity Index?
What are some of the highlights of the Index?
What else is interesting?
Why did you launch the Index?
What are the key drivers and restrainers of prosperity?
Indications
Some countries have a wide variation between their material wealth and life satisfaction rankings, while others, like the UK, are almost the same. What does that tell us?
What can low income countries learn from the Index?
What can higher income countries learn from the Index?
What does the ‘freedom of choice’ factor indicate for policymakers?
Methodology
How did you collect the data?
Your report only covers 50 countries in full. Are there any plans to expand the study?
How are the rankings calculated?
Usage
Who is the study for?
What is the Prosperiscope™?
Country-Specific
Why does Singapore rank 1st on material wealth and as low as 24th on life satisfaction measures?
Is there any hope for Zimbabwe?
Japan appears to score highly on a number of individual well-being dimensions. Why does it then rank relatively low on the life satisfaction rankings?
Progress
Some of the negative scores seem to reflect ingrained cultural attitudes – for example, the lack of leisure time in South Korea, where working long hours is a virtue. How can countries address these cultural norms and move up the rankings?
Which countries do you think will make the most progress in the next 5 years?
Legatum-related
What is the Legatum Institute for Global Development and what does it do?
Who is Legatum?