Countries are continually being ranked, measured, rated, and scored in terms of GDP, national deficit, trade balances, and so on. These metrics are undoubtedly important, but they are also remote and impersonal. What about you and me? How are we doing? What is our quality of life, our standard of living? Are we happy?rnSocial score card databases chart the well-being of a nation's people. They deal with the personal matters that the macroeconomic metrics obscure, using objective measures such as infant mortality and educational attainment. They also quantify subjective attitudes such as life satisfaction and happiness. It's the man-in-the-street level of country comparisons.
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