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Alberta is the best province in Canada for jobs and services, but it ranks fourth worst for safety. While, Prince Edward Island is the safest province in Canada, as far as accessing services goes, it’s the second worst, next to New Brunswick.

These are just a few of the facts you can glean from the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development’snew interactive website Regional Well-being.

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The site rates 362 regions around the world with a relative score out of 10 in eight categories: income, health, safety, services, civic engagement, education, jobs and environment and reveals some large disparities.

While Alberta’s murder rate of 2.4 per 100,000 people is fairly high for Canada, it’s not as bad as the country’s unsafest region, Nunavut, where the murder rate is 17.6 killings per 100,000 people. With a life expectancy of 71.3 years, Nunavut also is the worst region for health, and ranks globally in the bottom 1%.

Other places with similar quality of life to Nunavut include Mississippi, Chihuahua, Mexico and Zachodniopomorskie, Poland.

Here a few more facts from the site: