Nigeria: The Where-to-Be-Born Index 2013 - Re-Visiting a Distressing Verdict

8 December 2012
analysis

I am deeply saddened by the content of 2013 Where-to-be-born Index which was recently released by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a subsidiary of the famed The Economist Magazine. Nigeria, according to this unflattering report, is the worst country to be born.

Eighty countries were assessed by EIU but Nigeria came at the bottom. This survey is shattering because real people were actually sampled and all the respondents agreed that Nigeria is the least or the last place they would want to be born based on ten criteria.

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