Ghana has placed 5^th in Africa and 95^th in the world among 168 countries for its general quality of nationality, according to the latest Kochenov Quality of Nationality Index (QNI) by Henley& Partners.

The general quality of nationality includes travel freedom, settlement freedom and external value of its nationality.

This summarises the quality of life and opportunities for personal growth within a country of origin.

With a value of 32.1, Ghana did far better than the majority of African countries.

Seychelles was first in Africa and 49^th in the world, followed by Mauritius, South Africa and Cape Verde who 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th respectively in Africa but 53^rd, 922^nd and 93^rd accordingly in the world.

The other top five African countries were Botswana (6^th in Africa and 96^th in the world), The Gambia (7^th in Africa and 103^rd in the world), Sierra Leone (8^th in Africa 104^th in the world), Senegal (9^th in Africa and 106^th in the world) and Togo (10^th in Africa and 108^th in the world).

France was first in the world for its quality of nationality, according to the QNI.

QNI provides a comprehensive ranking of the quality of nationalities worldwide. To ensure a high level of reliability, a wide variety of strictly quantifiable data is used to gauge the opportunities and limitations that our nationalities impose on us.

The QNI measures both the internal value of nationality, which refers to the quality of life and opportunities for personal growth within our country of origin, and the external value of nationality, which identifies the diversity and quality of opportunities that our nationality allows us to pursue outside our country of origin.

Read more from Thursday, May 10, 2018's edition of the Finder newspaper.