Worlds Happiest Countries 2017

[Blobfish]

And the Winner goes to NORWAY. ....



http://www.iflscience.com/editors-bl...been-revealed/

In fact most Scandinavian countries fare well

Australia is in the top 10 and the USA is now 14 ..
England is 19th ??

Biggest improvers where: Nicaragua, Latvia, Sierra Leone, Ecuador, Moldova, Bulgaria, Russia, Slovakia, Chile, and Uzbekistan.

On the Sad side the Worlds most unhappiest countries are:
Central African Republic, Burundi, Tanzania, Syria, Rwanda, Togo, Guinea, Liberia, South Sudan, and Yemen.

The research tries to account for this through studying six main variables:
GDP per capita, healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom, generosity, and absence/perception of corruption.

Are You Happy.???

[Deleted]

Rip UK : ( How the mighty have fallen

[Deleted]

2017 has barely even started, we haven't even had the first patch yet.

[Deleted]

These surveys measure everything but actual happiness.

"Are you happy" is kind of a tough thing to actually measure though. But being rich, alive, supported, free etc tend to make people happy in general.

[Tyrianth]

2017 has barely even started, we haven't even had the first patch yet.

Which is why it's using 2016 data. Just like the 2016 report used data from 2015. 2017 data will be used in the 2018 report.

[Ryme]

Rip UK : ( How the mighty have fallen

Have we ever been high on these things?

[zmp]

Damn, Norway made it #1 this time.

[Deleted]

Sweden... that makes no sense!
I mean.. Last Night in Sweden!
Do you remember! They cant be happy anymore :/

[Zigrifid]

My country (Greece) isnt even in there ! i wonder why :/\

[Deleted]

Have we ever been high on these things?

When we owned the world and stuff, we were prolly pretty happy. Just goes to show, this is what happens when you let the colonies get uppity.

[Ryme]

Have we ever been high on these things?

When we owned the world and stuff, we were prolly pretty happy. Just goes to show, this is what happens when you let the colonies get uppity.

We're actually up four places from 2013 - 2015: https://s3.amazonaws.com/sdsn-whr2017/HR-V1_web.pdf

[Activi-T]

The UK and US would obviously be ranks 1 and 2 on a true measurement of happiness as they have both overthrown the shackles of establishments and elites that were holding them down. /s

What a truly pointless excercise trying to measure happiness by wealth/freedom is. If Norway is so awesome why aren't they ranked towards the bottom in terms of suicide?

[Deleted]

We're actually up four places from 2013 - 2015: https://s3.amazonaws.com/sdsn-whr2017/HR-V1_web.pdf

Where's the data from the 1800's!

[igualitarist]

Why do the countries on the top of that list are also the ones with the biggest suicide rates ??

[Hashtronaut]

Of course, but it doesn't really make it a happiness survey. It would probably be better to just call it what it is, which is a quality of life survey.

They wouldn't have gotten nearly as much exposure without that headline.

[munkeyinorbit]

These surveys measure everything but actual happiness.

I think you will find they measure happiness. Read the title.

[Blueobelisk]

These surveys measure everything but actual happiness.

I actually agree. The "happiness" variables aren't meaningful.

[Deleted]

The UK and US would obviously be ranks 1 and 2 on a true measurement of happiness as they have both overthrown the shackles of establishments and elites that were holding them down. /s

What a truly pointless excercise trying to measure happiness by wealth/freedom is. If Norway is so awesome why aren't they ranked towards the bottom in terms of suicide?

Generally people commit suicide because of mental health problems, not unhappiness in the strictest sense of the word. Having less than perfect mental health care will make you unhappier in general, but you could be best at everything other than mental health care, and still have a bunch of people offing themselves

[Shutyertrap]

Why do the countries on the top of that list are also the ones with the biggest suicide rates ??

Freedom to commit suicide.. you can choose more freely to keep your life or take it.

[Tyrianth]

The UK and US would obviously be ranks 1 and 2 on a true measurement of happiness as they have both overthrown the shackles of establishments and elites that were holding them down. /s

What a truly pointless excercise trying to measure happiness by wealth/freedom is. If Norway is so awesome why aren't they ranked towards the bottom in terms of suicide?

Obviously Syria is the happiest country on the planet being that it has the lowest suicide rates!

And Norway has a below average suicide rate. World average is 9.7, Norway is 9.1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...y_suicide_rate