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The World's
Happiest Countries
World "Happiest" Countries vs. Countries
with the Highest Levels of "Subjective
Well-Being"
The University of Michigan's World Values
Surveys (WVS) has compiled data on the
happiest countries in the world for over
twenty years. Their results are considered
the most authoritative by happiness
researchers.
WVS measures the happiness of individuals by
two different means. The first is to simply
ask them how "happy" they are. The second is
to ask them how "happy" they are, and also
how "satisfied" they are. The results
are then combined to arrive at a measure of
their "subjective well-being," a term
generally considered synonymous with
happiness.
Because of these two different ways of
measuring happiness, some confusion arises
in determining which countries in the world
are happiest. There is support for the the
validity of both measures. For example,
former president of the American
Psychological Association, Dr. Martin
Seligman, uses the "happiness only" measure
in his book Authentic Happiness.
However, Dr. Ron Inglehart, director of
World Values Surveys, considers the
"subjective well-being" measure a more
accurate indicator of personal happiness.
Therefore on this page I present the
international rankings using both measures.
When individuals were asked:
"Taking all things together,
would you say you are: 1. Very
happy, 2. Rather happy, 3. Not
very happy, or 4. Not at all
happy?" countries achieved the
following rankings (Dr.
Inglehart has not released the
complete list): |
Ranking of the World's Happiest
Countries
|
1. Nigeria
2. Mexico
3. Venezuela
4. El Salvador
5. Puerto Rico
|
Ronald Inglehart et al. (eds.) HUMAN BELIEFS AND
VALUES: A CROSS-CULTURAL SOURCEBOOK BASED ON THE
1999-2002 VALUES SURVEYS (Mexico City: Siglo XXI,
2004). |
When
individuals were asked the above
"happiness" question and the
results were combined with the
following question: (On a scale
of one to ten) "All things
considered, how satisfied are
you with your life as a whole
these days?" a ranking of
"subjective well-being" for the
following countries was
achieved. |
Ranking of Countries by Level of
"Subjective Well-Being"
|
1. Puerto Rico
2. Mexico
3. Denmark
4. Colombia
5. Ireland
6. Iceland
7. N. Ireland
8. Switzerland
9. Netherlands
10. Canada
11. Austria
12. El Salvador
13. Venezuela
14. Luxembourg
15. U.S.
16. Australia
17. New Zealand
18. Sweden
19. Nigeria
20. Norway
21. Belgium
22. Finland
23. Singapore
24. W. Germany
25. France
26. Argentina
27. Vietnam
28. Chile
29. Indonesia
30. Philippines
31. Taiwan
32. Brazil
33. Spain
34. Israel
35. Italy
36. Portugal
37. E. Germany
38. Slovenia
39. Japan
40. Czech Rep
41. S. Africa
42. Croatia
43. Greece
44. Peru
45. China
46. Morocco
47. S. Korea
48. Iran
49. Poland
50. Turkey
51. Bosnia
52. Uganda
53. Algeria
54. Bangladesh
55. Egypt
56. Kyrgyzstan
57. Hungary
58. Slovakia
59. Jordan
60. Estonia
61. Serbia
62. Tanzania
63. Azerbaijan
64. Montenegro
65. India
66. Lithuania
67. Macedonia
68. Pakistan
69. Latvia
70. Albania
71. Bulgaria
72. Belarus
73. Georgia
74. Romania
75. Moldova
76. Russia
77. Armenia
78. Ukraine
79. Zimbabwe
Please note that not all of the
world's countries are included
in the survey.
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|
Ronald Inglehart et al. (eds.) HUMAN BELIEFS AND
VALUES: A CROSS-CULTURAL SOURCEBOOK BASED ON THE
1999-2002 VALUES SURVEYS (Mexico City: Siglo XXI,
2004).
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