The UK’s decline in ranking was mainly caused by Brexit, with the report further stating that a ‘Hard Brexit’ would see the UK losing its settlement and work rights in 30 of the world’s leading sates, overwhelmingly impairing the quality of its nationality.
“Both the value of European nationality overall and the value of UK nationality, in particular, are in gradual decline, especially in relation to faster-growing economies such as China, the UAE, and the US, whose nationalities continue to increase in value each year,” said Prof. Dr Dimitry Kochenov, who collaborated on the QNI.
“Accordingly, any loss will be felt much more acutely by an increasingly isolated Britain in the case of a hard Brexit.”
Other countries also included China at 59th, Russia at 63rd, South Africa at 92nd and India who made it to 106th place.
Somalia was placed last at 167th, preceded by Afghanistan, Iraq, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
Top 10 nationalities on the 2017 Quality of Nationality Index
Share This Post
