Moving to a new country as a single women is a daunting prospect. Sure, there’s plenty of information available on the cost of living in different countries. There’s also frightening stories about crime rates, for instance.
Yet trying to determine the best country to move to for your individual circumstances can be tricky.
In an attempt to provide some guidance, the Single Woman Liveability Index compiled by Compare the Market attempts to rank the factors that matter most to this demographic.
Unlike other rankings, such as the World Happiness Report, Luxembourg here ranks decidedly middle-of-the-table.
The index compares eight different factors: a safety index; apartment costs; monthly cost of living; the average annual wage; the number of bars and clubs (population weighted); the number of things to do on TripAdvisor (population weighted); the year that women gained equal voting rights to men; and the happiness score from the World Happiness Report.
While punching above its weight on happiness and average annual wage, it loses out on activities and nightlife, while the safety index is also very average.
As for women’s suffrage, it took until 1919 for universal voting rights to be established in the Grand Duchy. That compares favourably with countries such as Italy (1945) and Portugal (1975), but is behind others such as Finland (1906) and New Zealand (1893).
In terms of overall rankings, top of the table are Denmark, Iceland and Estonia. Luxembourg’s neighbours rank lower down: Germany is 16th, Belgium 27th and France 30th. At the bottom are South Korea, Chile and Mexico.
Here’s the table in full:
