Associated Press Worldstream
September 1, 2004 Wednesday 12:51 PM Eastern Time

National rankings of economic security

Countries ranked according the International Labor Organization's Economic Security Index, which combines seven different measures of individual economic security, with the highest score being 1.000.

1. Sweden 0.977
2. Finland 0.947
3. Norway 0.926
4. Denmark 0.910
5. Netherlands 0.865
6. Belgium 0.829
7. France 0.829
8. Luxembourg 0.813
9. Germany 0.793
10. Canada 0.785
11. Ireland 0.782
12. Austria 0.782
13. Spain 0.756
14. Portugal 0.738
15. United Kingdom 0.736
16. Switzerland 0.727
17. Australia 0.724
18. Japan 0.718
19. Israel 0.695
20. Italy 0.681
21. Hungary 0.635
22. Slovakia 0.626
23. Czech Republic 0.622
24. New Zealand 0.614
25. United States 0.612
26. Greece 0.592
27. Latvia 0.587
28. Bulgaria 0.582
29. Barbados 0.574
30. Lithuania 0.556
31. Croatia 0.546
32. South Korea 0.545
33. Mauritius 0.536
34. Estonia 0.525
35. Ukraine 0.524
36. Costa Rica 0.521
37. Argentina 0.521
38. South Africa 0.519
39. Brazil 0.517
40. Panama 0.515
41. Russia 0.503
42. Belarus 0.499
43. Moldova 0.495
44. Romania 0.456
45. Philippines 0.455
46. Chile 0.447
47. Azerbaijan 0.425
48. Mexico 0.418
49. Tunisia 0.412
50. Algeria 0.409
51. Tajikistan 0.404
52. Ecuador 0.395
53. Venezuela 0.393
54. Lebanon 0.390
55. Georgia 0.389
56. Turkey 0.381
57. Kyrgyzstan 0.380
58. China 0.356
59. Egypt 0.339
60. Albania 0.339
61. Peru 0.339
62. Sri Lanka 0.330
63. Kazakhstan 0.320
64. Uzbekistan 0.312
65. Thailand 0.287
66. Armenia 0.285
67. Honduras 0.276
68. Burkina Faso 0.266
69. Colombia 0.258
70. Nigeria 0.254
71. Zimbabwe 0.254
72. Madagascar 0.249
73. Ivory Coast 0.247
74. India 0.246
75. Morocco 0.237
76. Turkmenistan 0.230
77. Indonesia 0.228
78. Ghana 0.227
79. Congo 0.226
80. Senegal 0.223
81. Benin 0.215
82. Congo 0.148
83. Ethiopia 0.142
84. Pakistan 0.136
85. Mauritania 0.128
86. Burundi 0.098
87. Rwanda 0.073
88. Bangladesh 0.070
89. Sierra Leone 0.060
90. Nepal 0.051