how to measure the success of a country Up to now, economic development has always been an indicator to evaluate the success of a country. However, that is just a one-sided view if we neglect the other elements. I think that we should also look at non-material progress for a complete picture. One of the most important factor that should be mentioned is “peace”. This means that people can live and work together happily without disagreements, freedom from war and violence. A nation, even if with marterial wealth, but citizens of which always live in fear or face escalation of violence by political strife, terrorism,or criminal and so on cannot be called success. Another signal that play an equally crucial role in measuring this outside of economics is welfare and social system. It is wonderful to think that the poor people can still get medical examination and treatment without money, or people who lose a job can get assistance and the children in romote regions can be funded to go to school, then we can say this country is advanced. In the end, I feel that it comes down to all success of a nation stem from the peace and stability. The reason is that such countries will be respected and appreciated by other nations. Since they will be able to easily attract the investment and tourism as well as achieve sustainable development in economy. So, in conclusion, in order to measure the prosperity of a country we should consider in harmony amongst factors from economics, peace to social programes and services. Only by doing so can we gain a true evaluation.