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The fourth World Happiness Report also found that
countries where there was less inequality were happier overall.
Switzerland, Iceland, Norway and Finland, which like
Denmark have strong social security systems, made up the rest of the top five.
The US was the world's 13th happiest country, the UK
was 23rd, China was 83rd and India was 118th.
At the bottom of the 156 countries on the list was
Burundi, which is experiencing severe political unrest and the threat of
violence. It scored worse than Syria, where a civil war has killed more than
250,000 people over the past five years.
The
survey found Syrians had a better healthy-life expectancy and were also seen as
being more generous than Burundians and people in the three other nations -
Togo, Afghanistan and Benin - making up the five least happy countries.
Northern
America, Latin America and the Caribbean and Europe were the happiest regions
overall.
South
Asia and sub-Saharan Africa were the only regions where the average rating for
wellbeing was less than five out of 10.
The report - compiled by the UN's Sustainable
Development Solutions Network (SDSN) - is an analysis of Gallup World Poll data
generated from surveys of 1,000 people in each country every year for three
years. They were asked to evaluate their lives on a ladder scale of zero to 10.
The
researchers defined six key categories: gross domestic product (a nation's
output of goods and services) per capita, social support, healthy-life
expectancy, personal freedom, charitable giving and perceived corruption.
Inequality of happiness
The report found that people are happier living in societies
where there is less inequality of happiness. Likewise it found that the bigger the gap - or
inequality - in a country's happiness, the more widespread unhappiness is as a
whole.
It also looked at social support - defined as being
able to count on someone in difficult times - and the presence or otherwise of corruption.
"Human wellbeing should be nurtured through a holistic approach that combines economic, social and
environmental objectives," Columbia University Earth Institute Director
Jeffrey Sachs said in a SDSN press release.
"Rather than taking a narrow approach focused
solely on economic growth, we should promote societies that are prosperous, just, and
environmentally sustainable."
Points of interest from the 2016 report
§ The US has inequality of wellbeing to match its much-discussed
income gap. Americans are 85th among 157 countries ranked by the gap between
the most and least happy
§ Greece - beset by economic and political problems - had the
largest decrease in public happiness as well as large inequalities in happiness
§ Parenting is hardest on those in high-GDP countries, and
particularly among the unemployed
§ Happiness inequality has increased significantly in most
countries, in almost all global regions, and for the population of the world as
a whole
§ The top 10 countries in 2016 are the same as in the 2015 report,
although their ordering has changed once again, with Denmark regaining the top
spot from Switzerland
§ Of the world's other populous nations, Indonesia came in at 79,
Brazil at 17, Pakistan at 92, Nigeria at 103, Bangladesh at 110, Russia at 56,
Japan at 53 and Mexico at 21
a ladder (n.)
a piece of equipment used for climbing up and down, that consists of two vertical bars or pieces of rope joined to each other by a set of horizontal steps:
a series of increasingly important jobs or stages in a particular type of work or process:
(v.)
If a pair of tights or
a stocking ladders
or if you ladder it, a long hole appears in it:
charitable
(Adj.)
giving money, food, or help free to those who are in need because they are ill, poor, or have no home:
perceived
(v.)
to come to an opinion about something, or have a beliefabout something:
to see something or someone, or to notice something that is obvious:
Likewise (adv.)
in the same way:
otherwise (conj)
used after an order or suggestion to show what the resultwill be if you do
not follow that order or suggestion:
differently, or in another way:
except for what has
just been referred to:
nurture (v.)
to take care of, feed, and protect someone or something, especially young children or plants, and help him, her, or it to develop
to help a plan or a person to develop and be successful:
holistic (adj.)
dealing with or treating the whole of something or someone and not just a part:
approach (v.)
to come near or nearer to something or someone in space, time, quality, or amount:
to deal with something:
to speak to, write to, or visit someone in order to do something such as make a request or business agreement:
(n.)
a way of considering or doing something:
a n act of communicating with another person or group in order to ask for something:
prosperous
(adj.)
successful, usually by earning a
lot of money:
sustainable
(adj.)
able to continue over a period of time:
causing little or no damage to the environment and thereforeable to continue for a long time:
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