Singapore is ranked highly in education, healthcare, life expectancy, quality of life, and personal safety.
 Singapore has the world's highest smartphone penetration rates, in surveys by Deloitte and the Google Consumer Barometer  at 89% and 85% of the population respectively in 2014
 In the 2016 EF English Proficiency Index taken in 72 countries, Singapore place 6th and has been the only Asian country in the top ten

