What’s the best country to live in?

What is GDP?

• Total value of everything that is bought in a country

• The total value of everything sold in a country

• Total monetary value of everything a country produces and sells on the market

• The total value of an entire country's infrastructure

What are somethings GDP does NOT capture?

• Services that are provided but not sold on the market place (like public schools and fire fighting)

• Levels of inequality (the amount of people who have wealth vs. who does not)

• How happy people are with their lives

• All of the above

What is an alternative to GDP that captures health, education, strong communities and living standards?

• Gross Domestic Wellbeing (GNW)

• Gross National Happiness (GNH)

• Community Aggregate Valuation (CAV)

• Wholistic Value-Added (WVA)

Which country came up with the idea of Gross National Happiness as an alternative to GDP?

• India

• Sri Lanka

• Bhutan

• Nepal

What is the United Nations' Human Development Index based on?

• Environmental sustainability

• Health and education as well as income per capita

• Economic condition and food security 

• Morals and ethics accepted by the society

Which country has managed to grow its economy and improve living standards without drastically increasing its emissions?

• United States

• Colombia

• Costa Rica

• Jordan

Is it OK just using GDP to measure countries' well-being? How should we measure the well-being of a country? Who should decide what’s necessary for a country?

What if that you were designing your countries well-being metric? What do you value, and what would you measure?