Tuesday, August 22, 2006

First ever 'world map of happiness'

Adrian White, social psychologist at the University of Leicester in England, has produced the first-ever "World Map Of Happiness". and it is interesting while viewing it to see the List of countries by suicide rate page as well.

via According to Dr. White, happiness is found to be most closely associated with health, followed by wealth and then education. The meta-analysis is based on the findings of over 100 different studies around the world.(The British psychologist analysed data published by the CIA, UNESCO, the WHO and several other organizations measuring data from over 80,000 people worldwide). And the winner is... Denmark. This comes as quite a surprise for most people, since the country in northern Europe is widely known for its high suicide rate. The other Scandinavian countries, score very well, too, though they all have a relatively mild climate and long winters. Read More The 20 Happiest Nations In The World: 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 Happy Countries: #23. USA #35. Germany #41. UK #62. France The Three Least Happy Countries: #176. Democratic Republic of the Congo #177. Zimbabwe #178. Burundi

7 comments:

Diane Dehler said...

Now I found the rest of your postings. voila....

Anonymous said...

If all the unhappy people in Denmark are killing themselves, then that might boost its happiness ratings. Since no one is around to report being 'unhappy'. This is usually a statistical problem in reporting people are well...(if the unwell people are not around to report).

Diane Dehler said...

This comment by Alka is very amusing and perhaps statistically sound.

Diane Dehler said...

Happiness exists only in the seconds that a butterfly engages a flower with its impure affection. We read so much into those moments- we all do- we need to.

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This is really interesting because I can see that America is who have that privilege, all the region of America enjoy happiness a lot.

Robert Palma said...

Happiness exists only in the seconds that a butterfly engages a flower with its impure affection. We read so much into those moments- we all do- we need to.

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