Interesting!
Thanks for posting this.
sb
Loc: Florida's East Coast
I do not see Bhutan on the map. It has always been described as the happiest country on Earth. From my travels I would have to agree with the remarks of others. Some combination of grinding poverty and political/religious/social oppression will certainly make people unhappy.
The Scandinavian countries always come out on top. Free universal healthcare; free school through college; infrastructure in great shape; low pollution; stable government that actually serves the people...it's easy to understand why. On the other hand, all those "free" services come at about a 45% tax rate.
fourlocks wrote:
The Scandinavian countries always come out on top. Free universal healthcare; free school through college; infrastructure in great shape; low pollution; stable government that actually serves the people...it's easy to understand why. On the other hand, all those "free" services come at about a 45% tax rate.
More bang for the buck I would say.
I am surprised India did not score higher. From my experience from visiting there many times, they seem to be the happiest people I have ever met.
Happiness is an individual state of mind. For me, intensely listening to modern jazz from the 50s and 60s has always provided the highest degree of happiness and satisfaction.
So, if everyone listened continuously and passionately to this specific music the whole world would be happy and anger, violence and frustration would fade away. As a start, just keep posting the best 50s and 60s jazz and you will have a chart showing 100% global happiness.
I bet Canada isn’t as happy these days. Not after their disastrous COVID19 response and the discovery of all the indigenous children that were tortured and killed.
That seems realistic. My first thought was Finland. I remember hearing that it is a happy country.
I wonder if the happiness in Iceland varies according to volcano activity. They've had a lot of lava flowing lately.
They have missed out Tasmania 7.4
jerryc41 wrote:
That seems realistic. My first thought was Finland. I remember hearing that it is a happy country.
I wonder if the happiness in Iceland varies according to volcano activity. They've had a lot of lava flowing lately.
No, but directly related to vodka consumption.
So in 2011 a guy named Jeff Desjardins from Canada gets crowd funded, raises a few bucks on Kickstarter and starts a global "research" company called Visual Capitalist. His revenue source is in Western countries and he publishes a report that says people in North America and Western Europe are happy, happy, happy and the rest of the world is sad, sad, sad. I just wonder how a map from a similar guy in Russia or China might look :-) :-)
pbcbob wrote:
No, but directly related to vodka consumption.
And yet, people in Russia are not happy.
Australia shows at 7.2 on the happiness score. That's pretty high up there. Methinks that since this map was published in 2021, that perhaps Australia would rate a lot lower happiness score now in 2022.
bobbyjohn wrote:
Australia shows at 7.2 on the happiness score. That's pretty high up there. Methinks that since this map was published in 2021, that perhaps Australia would rate a lot lower happiness score now in 2022.
It's not a very happy world, is it?
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