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It is interesting what you can find on the Net. US News and World Report do a yearly report on countries. They use a set of 73 country attributes – terms that can be used to describe a country and that are also relevant to the success of a modern nation. Various attributes and nations were presented in a 2022 survey of more than 17,000 people from across the globe from April 30 to July 13. Participants assessed whether they associated an attribute with a nation.

Each country was scored on each of the 73 country attributes based on a collection of individual survey responses. The more a country was perceived to exemplify a certain characteristic in relation to the average, the higher that country's attribute score and vice versa. These scores were normalized to account for outliers and transformed into a scale that could be compared across the board.

These Are the Friendliest Countries in the world along with their ranking as the best country in the world to live in.

These are the top countries viewed as friendly by global survey respondents. For more information on the rankings, see their methodology.

New Zealand #1 in Friendly #11 in Best Countries Overall

Spain #2 in Friendly, #16 in Best Countries Overall

Italy #3 in Friendly #14 in Best Countries Overall

Greece #4 in Friendly #25 in Best Countries Overall

Canada #5 in Friendly #3 in Best Countries Overall

Netherlands #6 in Friendly #12 in Best Countries Overall

Australia, #7 in Friendly, #7 in Best Countries Overall

Norway #8 in Friendly #13 in Best Countries Overall

Finland ,#9 in Friendly #15 in Best Countries Overall

Ireland #10 in Friendly  #23 in Best Countries Overall

Sweden #11 in Friendly #5 in Best Countries Overall

Portugal #12 in Friendly #26 in Best Countries Overall

Denmark #13 in Friendly #10 in Best Countries Overall

Switzerland #14 in Friendly #1 in Best Countries Overall

Thailand #15 in Friendly #28 in Best Countries Overall

Austria #16 in Friendly #22 in Best Countries Overall

Brazil #17 in Friendly #27 in Best Countries Overall

Singapore #18 in Friendly #19 in Best Countries Overall

Belgium #19 in Friendly #18 in Best Countries Overall

Poland #20 in Friendly  #32 in Best Countries Overall