Top Ten Most Socialist Countries

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It's actually one of the richest countries keep in mind.




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A small country (5.5 million people), known for 2 things:
1) Finland usually tops many of the world’s best-of charts, such as the best country to live in, based on objective criteria: health, economic dynamism, education, political environment, quality of life, and so on.
2) Finland is the country with the biggest number of metal bands per capita in the world (3,400 bands).

The least popular of the Scandinavian countries.

5 Netherlands

Comments based on assumptions and not on facts are always wrong. Shorter work hours was their policy to increase employment and social inclusion. If a person works 25 and not 50 hours a week there will be 25 hours left for somebody else and one more person will be employed. This type of thinking was part of their social agreement and in literature it's called "social intelligence".
Lower workforce participation (US) doesn't always mean better productivity but it always means that more people are long-term unemployed and hence, excluded from the workforce, I.e. more poverty.


The role of drugs and prostitution in their economic growth was extremely exaggerated by the visitor. Drugs and prostitution are mostly for tourists. Dutch people have been the healthiest European nation for long time according to many data sources (stats).
Their slogan is: "Don't work hard, work smart". Which they do - for about 20-30 years they have had the shortest working hours in the world. This is a middle class country - there's no visible and significant poverty there.



If you are sick or lazy, move to Canada and let the hard working people pay your wage. It's become a fascist state where conservatism is labeled as racist, homophobic, and greedy. Unfortunately, most of the population is brainwashed by government funded schools that continues to let people believe cheap money is what will save our sluggish oil-based ecnonomy.

It's like USA, but better


France has the highest level of public expenses and taxes in all Europe, with the highest rate of social expenses in the world (as compared to its GDP : 34%) and then, should be considered as the most socialist country of all Europe...

Greatest healthcare system in the world


The most corrupt on the list.





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So many taxes (aka wealth redistribution) and so many Americans on government assistance. I'm surprised USA is not the number 1 most socialist country in the world.

I wish America was socialist. Who made this list?


One of the few socialist countries on this list.

14 National Socialist Germany

"England is a capitalist democracy. Germany is a socialist people's state. And it is not the case that we think England is the richest land on earth. There are lords and City men in England who are in fact the richest men on earth. The broad masses, however, see little of this wealth. We see in England an army of millions of impoverished, socially enslaved, and oppressed people. Child labor is still a matter of course there. They have only heard about social welfare programs. Parliament occasionally discusses social legislation. Nowhere else is there such terrible and horrifying inequality as in the English slums. Those with good breeding take no notice of it. Should anyone speak of it in public, the press, which serves plutocratic democracy, quickly brands him the worst kind of rascal. They do not hesitate to make major changes in the Constitution if they are necessary to preserve capitalist democracy." - Joseph Goebbels

15 Soviet Union

While ex-socialist, it is one of the few countries on this list that were actually socialist.

100% they are socialist


"There was a conviction that the socialist cause was a just one, and so wherever there were struggles against colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism, the Soviet Union would support those struggles and those causes, in the form of economic and military help. The economic assistance that the Soviet Union gave Nicaragua was invaluable." - Daniel Ortega


EXTREMELY AUthoritarian! Government owns ALL enterprise. Privatization is OUTLAWED IN ALL FORMS! However, our government generally has our best interests at heart, although General Cossgrove did also spend a lot of needless stuff such as statues of himself, which, since 2018, a lot of these have been toppled in West Australia by nato-backed Geurilla forces. But generally, we still like our government.

What a lot of crock! Nothing could be further from the truth. Australia is NOT a socialist country, and the government does NOT own all enterprise. Furthermore, privatisation is NOT outlawed. I don't know where you got all this utter nonsense from but it's certainly NOT from living in Australia which is a FREE COUNTRY! I live there so I know first-hand what Australia is like.

Our government may own SOME of the schools and hospitals, and we may get free healthcare. But, we are a capitalist nation and a lot of kids only care about money. Also, Australians would tell you to shut up if you’re a socialist.


Since 1991, the People's Front for Democracy and Justice, based on socialism and left-wing nationalism, has been the sole legal political party in Eritrea.

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