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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A bullet train zips by rice harvesters near Mount Fuji, Japan.

The UN rated Japan as the eighth best place to live in a new report on human development, which incorporates lifestyle factors such as literacy rates, education, poverty, and income.

A Japanese child born in 2005 can expect to live 82.3 years—the highest life expectancy in the world. Zambia had the lowest, with an expectancy of 40.5 years.

The Japanese diet of vegetables, fish, and tea—as well as an active lifestyle—may be keys to their longevity, experts say.

(See photos of healthy living in Japan.)

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