The OECD’s Better Life Index covers 34 countries and is based on 11 topics (housing, income, jobs, community, education, environment, governance, health, life satisfaction, safety, and work-life balance). The ratings are graphed as (kind of) cute petals on country “flowers”. The cool part of their interactive data exploration tool is that you can assign your own priorities as to which of the 11 topics is most important, and see how countries’ rankings change. You could quibble with the statistical accuracy of some of the indicators – but overall, it’s a well executed cross-country comparison.