This table contains international rankings of Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

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| rowspan="3" align="center" | A.T. Kearney

A.T. Kearney

A.T. Kearney is a global management consulting firm, focusing on strategic and operational CEO-agenda concerns. It was founded in 1926, and its head office is in Chicago, Illinois...

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Foreign Policy Magazine

Foreign Policy

Foreign Policy is a bimonthly American magazine founded in 1970 by Samuel P. Huntington and Warren Demian Manshel.Originally, the magazine was a quarterly...

| rowspan="3" align="center" | Globalization Index

Globalization Index

This article includes a list of countries of the world sorted by their globalization, the global connectivity, integration and interdependence in the economic, social, technological, cultural, political, and ecological spheres....

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|| 2007 || 18 || 72 || http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4030 ||
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|| 2006 || 13 || 62 || http://www.atkearney.com/shared_res/pdf/Globalization-Index_FP_Nov-Dec-06_S.pdf ||
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| rowspan="4" align="center" | Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

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Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

| rowspan="4" align="center" | Environmental Performance Index

Environmental Performance Index

The Environmental Performance Index is a method of quantifying and numerically benchmarking the environmental performance of a country's policies. This index was developed from the Pilot Environmental Performance Index, first published in 2002, and designed to supplement the environmental targets...

  [website]
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|| 2010 || 12 || 163 || http://epi.yale.edu/file_columns/0000/0157/epi2010_report.pdf ||
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|| 2008 || 4 || 149 || http://www.yale.edu/epi/files/2008EPI_Text.pdf ||
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|| 2006 || 3 || 133 || http://www.yale.edu/epi/files/2006EPI_Report_Full.pdf ||
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| rowspan="4" align="center" | Heritage Foundation

Heritage Foundation

The Heritage Foundation is a conservative American think tank based in Washington, D.C. Heritage's stated mission is to "formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong...

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....

| rowspan="4" align="center" | Index of Economic Freedom

Index of Economic Freedom

The Index of Economic Freedom is a series of 10 economic measurements created by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal. Its stated objective is to measure the degree of economic freedom in the world's nations....

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|| 2010 || 17 || 179 || http://www.heritage.org/index/PDF/2010/Index2010_ExecutiveHighlights.pdf ||
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|| 2008 || 16 || 165 || http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/chapters/pdf/Index2008_ExecSum.pdf ||
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|| 2007 || 16 || 165 || http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/downloads/2008PastScores.xls ||
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|| 2006 || 16 || 165 || http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/downloads/2008PastScores.xls ||
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| rowspan="5" align="center" | IMD International

International Institute for Management Development

IMD - International Institute for Management Development is a non profit business school located in Lausanne, Switzerland.- History & Mission :...

| rowspan="5" align="center" | World Competitiveness Yearbook  [website]
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|| 2010 || 19 || 58 || http://www.imd.ch/research/publications/wcy/upload/scoreboard.pdf ||
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|| 2008 || 15 || 55* || http://www.imd.ch/research/publications/wcy/upload/scoreboard.pdf || }
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|| 2007 || 17 || 55 || http://www.imd.ch/research/publications/wcy/upload/scoreboard.pdf ||
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|| 2006 || 10 || 61 || http://www.imd.ch/about/pressroom/pressreleases/upload/IMD-WCY2006-Scoreboard.pdf ||
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| rowspan="2" align="center" | Legatum Institute
| rowspan="2" align="center" | Legatum Prosperity Index

Legatum Prosperity Index

The Legatum Prosperity Index is an annual ranking developed by the Legatum Institute of 110 countries. The ranking is based according to a variety of factors including wealth, economic growth, personal wellbeing, and quality of life. Norway topped the lists of the the last two reports, those of...

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|| 2009 || 1 || 104 || http://www.prosperity.com/downloads/2009LegatumProsperityIndexReport.pdf ||
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| rowspan="2" align="center" | Newsweek

Newsweek

Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...

| rowspan="2" align="center" | World's Best Countries  [website]
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|| 2010 || 1 || 100 || http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/15/interactive-infographic-of-the-worlds-best-countries.html ||
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| rowspan="4" align="center" | Organisation for Economic Co-operation
and Development (OECD)

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is an international economic organisation of 34 countries founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade...

| rowspan="4" align="center" | Programme for International Student
Assessment (PISA)

Programme for International Student Assessment

The Programme for International Student Assessment is a worldwide evaluation in OECD member countries of 15-year-old school pupils' scholastic performance, performed first in 2000 and repeated every three years...

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|| 2006 || → || 57 || http://www.pisa.oecd.org/dataoecd/30/17/39703267.pdf ||
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|| 2003 || → || 41 || http://www.pisa.oecd.org/dataoecd/1/60/34002216.pdf ||
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|| 2000 || → || 43 || http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/31/19/34107978.pdf ||
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| rowspan="5" align="center" | Reporters Without Borders

Reporters Without Borders

Reporters Without Borders is a France-based international non-governmental organization that advocates freedom of the press. It was founded in 1985, by Robert Ménard, Rony Brauman and the journalist Jean-Claude Guillebaud. Jean-François Julliard has served as Secretary General since 2008...

| rowspan="5" align="center" | Worldwide Press Freedom Index  [website]
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|| 2009 || 1 || 175 || http://en.rsf.org/press-freedom-index-2009,1001.html ||
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|| 2008 || 4 || 173 || http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=29031 ||
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|| 2007 || 5 || 169 || http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=24025 ||
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|| 2006 || 1 || 168 || http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=19388 ||
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| rowspan="5" align="center" | Save the Children

Save the Children

Save the Children is an internationally active non-governmental organization that enforces children's rights, provides relief and helps support children in developing countries...

| rowspan="5" align="center" | State of the World’s Mothers
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|| 2010 || 7 || 160 || http://www.savethechildren.org/publications/state-of-the-worlds-mothers-report/SOWM-2010-Women-on-the-Front-Lines-of-Health-Care.pdf ||
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|| 2008 || 7 || 146 || http://www.savethechildren.org/publications/mothers/2008/SOWM-2008-full-report.pdf ||
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|| 2007 || 7 || 140 || http://www.savethechildren.org/publications/mothers/2007/Mothers-Index-2007.pdf ||
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|| 2006 || 2 || 125 || http://www.savethechildren.org/publications/mothers/2006/SOWM_2006_final.pdf ||
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| rowspan="4" align="center" | The Economist Intelligence Unit

Economist Intelligence Unit

The Economist Intelligence Unit is part of the Economist Group.It is a research and advisory company providing country, industry and management analysis worldwide and incorporates the former Business International Corporation, a U.S. company acquired by the parent organization in 1986...

| rowspan="4" align="center" | Global Peace Index

Global Peace Index

The Global Peace Index is an attempt to measure the relative position of nations' and regions' peacefulness. It is the product of Institute for Economics and Peace and developed in consultation with an international panel of peace experts from peace institutes and think tanks with data collected...

  [website]
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|| 2010 || 9 || 149 || http://www.visionofhumanity.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/2010-GPI-Results-and-Methodology-Report1.pdf ||
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|| 2008 || 8 || 140 || http://www.visionofhumanity.org/images/content/Documents/2008%20GPi%20EIU%20Report.pdf ||
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|| 2007 || 6 || 121 || http://www.visionofhumanity.org/images/content/Documents/2007%20GPI%20EIU%20Report.pdf ||
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| rowspan="5" align="center" | Transparency International

Transparency International

Transparency International is a non-governmental organization that monitors and publicizes corporate and political corruption in international development. It publishes an annual Corruption Perceptions Index, a comparative listing of corruption worldwide...

| rowspan="5" align="center" | Corruption Perceptions Index

Corruption Perceptions Index

Since 1995, Transparency International publishes the Corruption Perceptions Index annually ranking countries "by their perceived levels of corruption, as determined by expert assessments and opinion surveys." The CPI generally defines corruption as "the misuse of public power for private...

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|| 2009 || 6 || 180 || http://www.edutube.org/interactive/corruption-perception-index-cpi-2009-interactive-world-map ||
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|| 2008 || 5 || 180 || http://www.transparency.org/content/download/36589/575262 ||
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|| 2007 || 1 || 179 || http://www.transparency.org/content/download/23972/358236 ||
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|| 2006 || 1 || 163 || http://www.transparency.org/content/download/10825/92857/version/1/file/CPI_2006_presskit_eng.pdf ||
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| rowspan="5" align="center" | United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

United Nations Development Programme

The United Nations Development Programme is the United Nations' global development network. It advocates for change and connects countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. UNDP operates in 177 countries, working with nations on their own solutions to...

| rowspan="5" align="center" | Human Development Index

Human Development Index

The Human Development Index is a composite statistic used to rank countries by level of "human development" and separate "very high human development", "high human development", "medium human development", and "low human development" countries...

  [website]
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|| 2007–2008 || 11 || 177 || http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/hdr_20072008_en_complete.pdf ||
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|| 2006 || 11 || 177 || http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR06-complete.pdf ||
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|| 2005 || 13 || 177 || http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR05_complete.pdf ||
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|| 2004 || 13 || 177 || http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/hdr04_complete.pdf ||
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| rowspan="5" align="center" | World Economic Forum

World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum is a Swiss non-profit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva, best known for its annual meeting in Davos, a mountain resort in Graubünden, in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland....

| rowspan="5" align="center" | Global Competitiveness Index
(Global Competitiveness Report)

Global Competitiveness Report

The Global Competitiveness Report is a yearly report published by the World Economic Forum. The first report was released in 1979. The 2011–2012 report covers 142 major and emerging economies....

[website]
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|| 2010–2011 || 7 || 139 || http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GlobalCompetitivenessReport_2010-11.pdf ||
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|| 2009–2010 || 6 || 133 || http://www.weforum.org/pdf/GCR09/GCR20092010fullrankings.pdf ||
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|| 2008–2009 || 6 || 134 || http://www.weforum.org/pdf/gcr08/Finland.pdf ||
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|| 2007–2008 || 6 || 131 || http://www.weforum.org/pdf/Gcr/profiles08/Finland.pdf ||
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