Someone just told me that Iceland is the 6th richest country in the world. I was incredulous, but did a quick google and came up with:
TIA for comments,
HankBW
Someone just told me that Iceland is the 6th richest country in the world. I was incredulous, but did a quick google and came up with:
TIA for comments,
HankBW
Not quite, given that only 305k people live there.
It depends, if one is Icelandic then it's as good as. I see from Private Eye that Iceland is now attracting huge inward investment from energy intensive industries, because it has committed to a massive program of creating energy from geothermal and hydro. Zero carbon emissions means no "green" taxes on companies setting up business there.
its a statistical quirk
1 millionaire and 10 peasants = 6th place
I think this is more up to date although Iceland is stll at 6 :
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