The 22 poorest, unsafest, unhealthiest, and most miserable countries on Earth

The Legatum Institute, a London-based think tank, released its annual Prosperity Index this week. The index ranks 142 countries in terms of their so-called prosperity. Prosperity may mostly be used to talk about money, but the Legatum Institute thinks there is more to it than that. It takes into account 89 different variables, ranging from indicators like a country's unemployment rate to asking citizens about how much political freedom they feel they have. The data is then broken down into eight...