1. The United States of America
Life expectancy: 79.8 years
GDP per capita: $55,800
Health expenditure: 17.1% of GDP
Education expenditure: 5.2% of GDP
America ranks as first on the list of 12 best countries with birthright citizenship. Newly elected President Donald Trump, whose campaign was significantly based on anti-immigration rhetoric, said last year that he did not think that children born to illegal immigrants on the US soil were America’s citizens. He also claimed that birthright citizenship could be canceled without changing Constitution whose 14th Amendment says: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside.” President Trump believes that passing a law in Congress would be enough to end jus soli principle. However, many legal scholars have emphasized that Donald Trump’s logic is wrong and that birthright citizenship cannot be abolished through the act of Congress.
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