The US is one of the worst countries in the world to raise a family according to new research of the world’s biggest economies carried out by travel and family experts ‘Asher and Lyric’
In the new research, the US also scored badly in terms of the country with the highest cost of living. Ranked 34 out of 35, the US scored three ‘F’ grades for safety, cost of living and work-life balance, a ‘D minus’ for health, and a ‘C+’ for happiness and education.
Overall, it was given an ‘F’ grade for raising a family, with its neighbour, Mexico coming out worse. The ‘Raising a Family Index’ was compiled from 30 studies of countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) which are advanced democracies with wealthy economies.
The UK was given a ‘B minus’ rating, ranking it 23rd, with scores including a ‘D minus’ for work-life balance, an average for health (C) and education (C+) but better for happiness (A) and safety (B).
Iceland came out top of the table while Norway, Sweden and Finland came out top 5.