Which country has the best standard of living?

The HDI combines normalized measures of life expectancy, educational attainment, and GDP per capita for countries worldwide. It is claimed as a standard means of measuring human development-a concept that, according to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), refers to the process of widening the options of persons, giving them greater opportunities for education, health care, income, employment, etc. The HDI attempts to measure a country's development.

With that definition in mind, the countries with the highest standard of living would be:

1 Norway 0.971
2 Australia 0.970
3 Iceland 0.969
4 Canada 0.966
5 Ireland 0.965
6 Netherlands 0.964
7 Sweden 0.963
8 France 0.961
9 Switzerland 0.960
10 Japan 0.960