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Map of the Week: Why Costa Rica is the happiest place 12:08pm on 04 Jul 2009 Seems to me that the weighting applied to EF is the key to this table - and is not disclosed in the article. The higher the population density the lower you will appear in the table. Given this it's quite convenient that Greenland is missing from the analysis - I'd expect it to be streets ahead with such a large landmass but minuscule population.

The EF rating is far too simplistic, a country with a large amount of inhospitable or non-productive land will automatically rate higher than a similar one where most of the land is in productive use.

Sorry Mark, but could do better

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