UN Rates Best, Worst Countries

UN Rates Best, Worst Countries
UN Rates Best, Worst Countries
UN Rates Best, Worst Countries
UN Rates Best, Worst Countries
UN Rates Best, Worst Countries
UN Rates Best, Worst Countries
UN Rates Best, Worst Countries
UN Rates Best, Worst Countries
UN Rates Best, Worst Countries
UN Rates Best, Worst Countries
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Australian youths cheer and wave their national flag after a victory in World Cup cricket in the country's biggest city, Sydney.

Australia, the smallest continent but one of the world's largest countries, came in third on an annual UN list of the best places to live.

The island has a better overall quality of life than the 16th-ranked United Kingdom, which colonized Australia in the 1700s.

Life expectancy Down Under is 80.3 years, and the enrollment ratio for schooling through university was 113 percent, according to 2005 figures in the Human Development Report 2007/2008.

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