SOVEREOINTELLIGENCE RESEARCH
The Sovereo Index · 2026 Edition

Where in the world is a long, healthy, wealthy life most within reach?

An evidence-based ranking of 195 nations across the six social determinants of wealth and health, the conditions that decades of epidemiology show shape how well, and how long, a life is lived.

195Nations ranked
6Wellbeing pillars
22Underlying factors
8Public data sources

The 2026 ranking

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  1. 01Liechtenstein86.0
  2. 02Norway84.8
  3. 03Iceland84.5
  4. 04Finland84.4
  5. 05Sweden84.0
  6. 06Andorra83.7
  7. 07Netherlands83.4
  8. 08Ireland83.3
  9. 09Denmark82.8
  10. 10Luxembourg82.8

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The thesis
Where you live is a social determinant of how long, how healthy, and how wealthy your life will be.
Grounded in the Whitehall studies and the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health.

The founder

Sovereo was founded by Todd Allyn, a professor of business and economics for 24 years and former Dean of the College of Business at Chancellor University, where he helped build the Jack Welch School of Business. He has taught economics to students as far away as China, and now lives in Colombia with his wife and family, having made the same cross border move this work is built to inform.

That is the difference. Sovereo is not a guru selling a dream from a distance. It is an economist who taught for a living and who actually relocated, building the verified intelligence he wished he had. The Index and the diagnostic on this site are built from public datasets and the established science, with the method shown in full. Twenty four years in a classroom taught him to make hard things clear without dumbing them down.

Built on the data of
UNDP
Human development
World Bank
Governance, prices
WHO
Health systems
Yale EPI
Environment
Heritage
Economic freedom
EF
English proficiency
V-Dem
Group equality
Gallup
Migrant acceptance
Williams Institute
Acceptance