This week in class we go north north north where we nest for a few days in Norway. There are a lot of intangible things that inspire us to go north to Norway, and over the course of the week we’re going to enjoy some of them — specifically Norwegian folk music and dance — but let’s start with statistics. We don’t usually quote from Wikipedia, but this paragraph, current at the time of this post, is hard to ignore: “Norway has had the highest Human Development Index ranking in the world since 2009. It also had the highest inequality-adjusted ranking until 2018 when Iceland moved to the top of the list. It is ranked first on the World Happiness Report for 2017 and ranks first on the OECD Better Life Index, the Index of Public Integrity, and the Democracy Index. Norway has one of the lowest crime rates in the world.” Yes? Ja!
