Nooo! I demand a recount.
Being presented with lists where we are not number one makes Danes sad. :-(
The embrace true capitalism along with strong social services.
Its possible and not a contradiction unlike the thought of some posters who think capitalism is the worse thing ever.
Their musicians (i.e. Seigmen) put out some of the most melancholic music on Earth.
Orson Wells said:in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
How is this possible? They aren't even very religious
It looks at factors including economic strength (measured in GDP per capita), social support, life expectancy, freedom of choice, generosity, and perceived corruption.
teach me your ways
This is their definition of happiness.
Our analysis of the levels, changes, and determinants of happiness among and within nations continues to be based chiefly on individual life evaluations, roughly 1,000 per year in each of more than 150 countries, as measured by answers to the Cantril ladder question: Please imagine a ladder, with steps numbered from 0 at the bottom to 10 at the top. The top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you and the bottom of the ladder represents the worst possible life for you. On which step of the ladder would you say you personally feel you stand at this time? We will, as usual, present the average life evaluation scores for each country, based on averages from surveys cover- ing the most recent three-year period, in this report including 2014-2016.
All this does for me is confirm that money truly does by happiness.
Explain Japan, explain Mexico. They should switch positions going by this logic, lol.All this does for me is confirm that money truly does by happiness.
No. They looked at those factors to try and explain how why particular countries had differing happiness levels; but those factors weren't considered happiness in and of themselves. Happiness was considered as follows:
Explain Japan, explain Mexico. They should switch positions going by this logic, lol.
Schattenjäger;232422499 said:Based on their echo chamber and their standard of happiness is different from other countries
This book does a good deal speaking about the subject
While I love the nordic countries we shouldn't forget that they have really high suicide rates compared to the rest of Europe, especially Finland.
Hong Kong is also at #71, below Libya at #68, so yeah, there's factors that go into it. Looking at the report "social support" is almost as big of a factor as GDP per capita.
Canada 7th?
lul
US>UK forever and always
Categories:
Explained by: GDP per capita
Explained by: Social support
Explained by: Healthy life expectancy
Explained by: Freedom to make life choices
Explained by: Generosity
Explained by: Perceptions of corruption
Dystopia (1.85) + residual
Country Happiness score
- Norway 7.537
- Denmark 7.522
- Iceland 7.504
- Switzerland 7.494
- Finland 7.469
- Netherlands 7.377
- Canada 7.316
- New Zealand 7.314
- Sweden 7.284
- Australia 7.284
- Israel 7.213
- Costa Rica 7.079
- Austria 7.006
- United States 6.993
- Ireland 6.977
- Germany 6.951
- Belgium 6.891
- Luxembourg 6.863
- United Kingdom 6.714
- Chile 6.652
- United Arab Emirates 6.648
- Brazil 6.635
- Czech Republic 6.609
- Argentina 6.599
- Mexico 6.578
- Singapore 6.572
- Malta 6.527
- Uruguay 6.454
- Guatemala 6.454
- Panama 6.452
- France 6.442
- Thailand 6.424
- Taiwan 6.422
- Spain 6.403
- Qatar 6.375
- Colombia 6.357
- Saudi Arabia 6.344
- Trinidad and Tobago 6.168
- Kuwait 6.105
- Slovakia 6.098
- Bahrain 6.087
- Malaysia 6.084
- Nicaragua 6.071
- Ecuador 6.008
- El Salvador 6.003
- Poland 5.973
- Uzbekistan 5.971
- Italy 5.964
- Russia 5.963
- Belize 5.956
- Japan 5.920
- Lithuania 5.902
- Algeria 5.872
- Latvia 5.850
- Moldova 5.838
- South Korea 5.838
- Romania 5.825
- Bolivia 5.823
- Turkmenistan 5.822
- Kazakhstan 5.819
- North Cyprus 5.810
- Slovenia 5.758
- Peru 5.715
- Mauritius 5.629
- Cyprus 5.621
- Estonia 5.611
- Belarus 5.569
- Libya 5.525
- Turkey 5.500
- Paraguay 5.493
- Hong Kong 5.472
- Philippines 5.430
- Serbia 5.395
- Jordan 5.336
- Hungary 5.324
- Jamaica 5.311
- Croatia 5.293
- Kosovo 5.279
- China 5.273
- Pakistan 5.269
- Indonesia 5.262
- Venezuela 5.250
- Montenegro 5.237
- Morocco 5.235
- Azerbaijan 5.234
- Dominican Republic 5.230
- Greece 5.227
- Lebanon 5.225
- Portugal 5.195
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 5.182
- Honduras 5.181
- Macedonia 5.175
- Somalia 5.151
- Vietnam 5.074
- Nigeria 5.074
- Tajikistan 5.041
- Bhutan 5.011
- Kyrgyzstan 5.004
- Nepal 4.962
- Mongolia 4.955
Explain Japan, explain Mexico. They should switch positions going by this logic, lol.
Well done my crazy (but happy) Nordic friends. Just back from a few nights out in Copenhagen - terrific fun. Hoping to get back to Norway/Sweden later this year.
Their musicians (i.e. Seigmen) put out some of the most melancholic music on Earth.
All this does for me is confirm that money truly does by happiness.
, it's subjective perceived happiness
That list is full of snowy places, I doubt they can be the happiest when they cant leave their houses half a year
Winter November until April. It's perfectly framed.As a member of a video game forum, I'm sure you can appreciate having an excuse to just sit inside all day.
This. The Nordic Model is the best in the world for a reason: it embraces the strenghths of capitalism for economic productivity and it embraces the strengths of social democracy as a political system with egalitarian values in distribution of wealth and power.
The 2 are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they compliment each other amazingly, as capitalism nets you lots of resources and social democracy enables you to distribute them in a more fair manner in part as a portfolio of social services (e.g., universal healthcare, free/subsidized higher education, safety nets, etc.) after they've been initially procured via redistributive adjustments.
preach.I've always wondered how good are those 'ideal' European countries for people who do not look like the locals.
preach.
I mean, I'm not throwing shade at them but when measuring all these things like 'happiness' do they take into account if it applies to different ethnicities? I'm honestly curious.
"Imagine a ladder, with steps numbered from 0 at the bottom to 10 at the top," the question asks.
"The top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you and the bottom of the ladder represents the worst possible life for you. On which step of the ladder would you say you personally feel you stand at this time?"
No. They only ask one question, according to the article.
I mean, I'm not throwing shade at them but when measuring all these things like 'happiness' do they take into account if it applies to different ethnicities? I'm honestly curious.