Every year for the last several years the U.N. has put out a report called the World Happiness Report.
The report seeks to evaluate the actual happiness of different populations by country.
Of course, one can always debate how well it achieves this goal, but the underlying data the report uses, as well as how the results for various countries change over time can be quite interesting and discussion worthy.
Report Link Here:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/happiness-r...18/WHR_web.pdf
Top 20 Rankings [[happiest to least happiest)
1. Finland [[7.632)
2. Norway [[7.594)
3. Denmark [[7.555)
4. Iceland [[7.495)
5. Switzerland [[7.487)
6. Netherlands [[7.441)
7. Canada [[7.328)
8. New Zealand [[7.324)
9. Sweden [[7.314)
10. Australia [[7.272)
11. Israel [[7.190)
12. Austria [[7.139)
13. Costa Rica [[7.072)
14. Ireland [[6.977)
15. Germany [[6.965)
16. Belgium [[6.927)
17. Luxembourg [[6.910)
18. United States [[6.886)
19. United Kingdom [[6.814)
20. United Arab Emirates [[6.774)
Of note for our respective Countries [[U.S and Canada)
The U.S. ranked #11 in the first survey a few years ago and has slipped since to #18 today.
Canada's rank has also slipped from a high of #5 to #7 today.
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