Wednesday, February 28, 2007

WORLD MAP OF HAPPINESS

WORLD MAP OF HAPPINESS
Happiness map
    Today's BBC News
Adrian White, from the UK's University of Leicester, used the responses of 80,000 people worldwide to map out subjective wellbeing...
    complete map (pdf)
  • Moving to Denmark (1st) or Switzerland (2nd) might just make you live much happier.
  • US is ranked 23rd while UK at 41st.
  • Chinese are "marginally happy" at 82nd. The survey must be conducted before yesterday's market crash. I'm sure there are less happy faces out there today.
  • It's not so bad considering that we are doing better than Japan (90th) and India (125th).