Best Place To Live Canada is the best place to live according to a newly realsed report by the United Nations. Factors that were taken into account for rating countries included the availability of schools, clean water, medical care, human rights, political freedom, along with positive economic as well as social conditions. Canada, has been number one in the past six years. Norway, the U.S., Australia, Iceland, Sweden, Belgium, Holland, Japan and Britain came next respectively. At the other end, weakened by natural disasters, wars, and social and economic disadvantages were ten underdeveloped countries, all of them in sub-Saharan Africa. The worst being Sierra Leon at the very bottom of the list, with Niger, Ethiopia, Burundy, and Chad on the higher ranks.