20 Most Happy Countries in the world

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Guy Kawasaki pointed out a very interesting article - The World Map of Happiness, listing out 20 of the most happy country in the world. This article is produced by Adrian G. White, a psychologist at the University of Leicester.

What is the definition of happy here? One may asked. According to ScienceDaily:

Participants in the various studies were asked questions related to happiness and satisfaction with life. The meta-analysis is based on the findings of over 100 different studies around the world, which questioned 80,000 people worldwide. For this study data has also been analysed in relation to health, wealth and access to education.

And there you go, the 20 most happy countries in the world.

  1. Denmark
  2. Switzerland
  3. Austria
  4. Iceland
  5. The Bahamas
  6. Finland
  7. Sweden
  8. Bhutan
  9. Brunei
  10. Canada
  11. Ireland
  12. Luxembourg
  13. Costa Rica
  14. Malta
  15. The Netherlands
  16. Antigua and Barbuda
  17. Malaysia
  18. New Zealand
  19. Norway
  20. The Seychelles

Some notable countries you don’t see in the list falls respectively at USA (23), France (62), China (82) Japan (90), India (125)

And the least happy countries are: Democratic Republic of the Congo(176), Zimbabwe(177), Burundi(178)

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Posted by hongkiat in Interesting , at 02.19.07

Comments

  1. Shankar Ganesh February 19th, 2007

    Cool and Interesting!

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  2. Mary-Louise Boyd February 21st, 2007

    I work for Guy Kawasaki, and I would like to thank you for your comments about Guy and his recent blog posting!

    Mary-Louise

    Online Assistant

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  3. hongkiat February 22nd, 2007

    Guy’s articles is always inspiring to me. I guess its great working for him

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  4. Jørgen Larsen February 23rd, 2007

    It’s true, we are happy here in Denmark - although we always complaint about the goverment, weather, taxes, housing prices and ten thousand other things ;-)

    Could you imagine live in a country where the tax on a new car is 180% and where you pay 65% of each buck you earn in taxes?

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  5. vp March 29th, 2008

    what about Fiji?????

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  6. Carolina July 1st, 2008

    we actually also have to pay tax every year for out cars and pay 65% of tax every year, but in your country you do see the money working, in mine is on corrupted peoples pucket :(

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  7. Medo medo arabian August 6th, 2008

    Syria is the mist happy county all over the world !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

    Reply

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