Expat Destinations: The Top Ten for 2016

Newcomer Taiwan has dethroned the winner of 2014 and 2015, Ecuador. The Asian Tiger performs extremely well in the Working Abroad and Personal Finance Indices, but also scores for other factors, like healthcare.

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For the country ranking, survey participants were asked to rate 43 different aspects of life abroad on a scale of one to seven. The rating process emphasized the respondents’ personal satisfaction with these aspects and considered both emotional topics such as the friendliness of the local population as well as more factual aspects (e.g. affordability of healthcare) with equal weight.

The respondents’ ratings of the individual factors were then bundled in various combinations for a total of 16 subcategories, and their mean values used to draw up five topical indices. These five indices, as well as the responses to the question: “how satisfied are you with life abroad in general?”, were then averaged in order to rank the 67 countries above.