Happy Countries

Thursday July 03rd 2008
Filed Under Current Events, World 

Denmark is the most happy and Zimbabwe is the least happy country as determined by the latest survey from the World Values Survey.  According to MSNBC, the survey has been conducted since 1981 and asks two questions “Taking all things together, would you say you are very happy, rather happy, not very happy, not at all happy?” And, “All things considered, how satisfied are you with your life as a whole these days?”  The top happiest countries in order are:

Happiest Countries:

  1. Denmark
  2. Puerto Rico
  3. Colombia
  4. Northern Ireland
  5. Iceland
  6. Switzerland
  7. Ireland
  8. the Netherlands
  9. Canada
  10. Sweden

The United States ranked 16th.  The results were gathered from survey 350,000 people.



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