World happiness map

[signatory]

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SOURCE: http://www.le.ac.uk/pc/aw57/world/sample.html

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1. This is the first map to illustrate international differences in happiness.

2. UK comes 41st out of 178 countries.

3. UK doing better than most of our similar neighbours and competitors (France 62nd, Italy 50th, Spain 46th, Japan 90th, China 82nd, India 125th). However other counties did do better (Germany 35th, USA 23rd, Ireland 11th). A full copy of the league table is published below.

4. Health is more important than wealth or education. Further analysis was performed to examine the links between satisfaction with life and measures of life expectancy (health), wealth (GDP per capita) and education (access to secondary level education).It was found that satisfaction with life correlated most closely with health (a correlation of .62), followed by wealth (.52) and then education (.51). (All pearson's r correlations were significant at the p<.001 level)

5. The map is based on an analysis of the results from over 100 studies. It uses data published by by UNESCO, the CIA, the New Economics Foundation, the WHO, the Veenhoven Database, the Latinbarometer, the Afrobarometer, and the UNHDR.

6. The map is being published in a psychology journal in September, and will be presented at a Psychology conference later in the year.

The 20 happiest nations in the World are:

1. Denmark
2. Switzerland
3. Austria
4. Iceland
5. The Bahamas
6. Finland
7. Sweden
8. Bhutan
9. Brunei
10. Canada
11. Ireland
12. Luxembourg
13. Costa Rica
14. Malta
15. The Netherlands
16. Antigua and Barbuda
17. Malaysia
18. New Zealand
19. Norway
20. The Seychelles

Other notable results include:

23. USA
35. Germany
41. UK
62. France
82. China
90. Japan
125. India
167. Russia

The three least happy countries were:

176. Democratic Republic of the Congo
177. Zimbabwe
178. Burundi
Full list of nations: http://www.le.ac.uk/pc/aw57/world/sample.html

[RomanS]

interesting

the US has the most people with anti-depressants on, but its still the happy one

[<Gypsum Fantastic>]

interesting

the US has the most people with anti-depressants on, but its still the happy one

Because they have anti-depressants.

[Papelgod]

We also have alot of shrinks...

[<Gypsum Fantastic>]

And the chinese are only so happy because of all the **** fighting.

**** fighting, the Asian anti-depressant.

[pascalywood]

And the chinese are only so happy because of all the **** fighting.

**** fighting, the Asian anti-depressant.

And if they dont say that theyre happy to live in China theyre going to get shot and their family will have to pay 0.68$ for the bullet p-)

[johanness]

Russia : Nr.167

even a lot of anti-depressiva won't work

as usual try vodka

[zuhrich]

so Northen Island is happy?

[scrybe]

Why the hell did htey use a red to yellow color scale? Those colors make me unhappy. :|

[signatory]

Why the hell did htey use a red to yellow color scale? Those colors make me unhappy. :|

Move to North Korea..... COMMIE!

[kosse]

Still suicide is the most common cause of death in young men (20-34 years) here.

[signatory]

Still suicide is the most common cause of death in young men (20-34 years) here.

That's true for most countries. Unless they are at war or infested by HIV.
It's true for the US too. Unless you look at a specific group, such as young black people.

But Finland is oddly high compared to similar nordic countries.

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/7490/suicideratesoecdzm2.jpg

[Eokboy]

I'm so happy! ¯\_(^A^)_/¯

[2Sheds_Jackson]

Interesting. I wonder if something similar could be used as a predictor for where wars are likely to break out - i.e. where an extremely happy nation borders an extremely unhappy one. Kinda looks that way - with Israel vs her neighbors, Saudi Arabia, Turkey vs Russia and Europe -East vs West.

It's a shame North Korea isn't in the study - they'd have had to invent an even deeper color of red happiness to accurately show the Juche-derived bliss that they feel every day.

And if Mexico is so goddamned happy, why are they all sneaking into the Northern happyland?

[scrybe]

Northern happierland.