PINOYS 78th - Happiest people worldwide

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LONDON - Filipinos rank 78th among 167 nationalities rated as the
happiest in the world, according to a new survey published Friday that
measures health, wealth, education, sense of identity and the aesthetic
quality of the landscape.

The Danes are the happiest people in the world, the survey said.

The survey follows another earlier this month that said the tiny South Pacific Ocean archipelago of Vanuatu was the happiest country on Earth.

Friday’s study, published by a University of Leicester academic who produced a World Map of Happiness, showed seven of the top 10 happiest countries were Western democracies, with the Bahamas, Bhutan andÂ Brunei being the exceptions.

The United States ranks 23rd, Germany comes in at number 35, and Britain ranks 41st.

“When people are asked if they are happy with their lives, people in countries with good health care, a higher GDP (gross domestic product) per capita, and access to education were much more likely to report being happy,” said Adrian White, the social psychologist who carried out the study.

“The frustrations of modern life, and the anxieties of the age, seem to be much less significant compared to the health, financial and educational needs in other parts of the world.”

White’s analysis was based on the findings of more than 100 different studies questioning 80,000 people around the world.
In the study published earlier this month by the British think-tank New Economics Foundation, ranked certain members of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized countries much lower than the latest survey.

The United States, for example, ranked 150th, Germany 81st and Britain 108th.

The top 10 were:

1. Denmark
2. Switzerland
3. Austria
4. Iceland
5. Bahamas
6. Finland
7. Sweden
8. Bhutan
9. Brunei
10. Canada

Selected others included:

15. Netherlands
17. Malaysia
19. Norway
22. UAE
23. United States
26. Australia
31. Saudi Arabia
38. Kuwait
45. Qatar
46. Spain
62. France
63. Hong Kong
64. Indonesia
76. Thailand
78. Philippines
82. China
90. Japan
109. South Africa
125. India
166. Pakistan
167. Russia

2 Comments on “PINOYS 78th - Happiest people worldwide”

#1 Ken
on Jul 31st, 2006 at 11:18 am

Thanks for publishing information about both studies. Isnâ€™t it amazing that two studies that are published in the same country within the same month, and are supposed to measure almost the same thing, can have so contradicting results. Perhaps the main benefit of these kind of studies is that they are thought provoking rather than credible.
#2 melovillareal
on Aug 5th, 2006 at 11:53 am

Yup its amazing…. but i think you forgot to check that the two studies were done in two succeeding years…. thats why results are not contradicting…. Perhaps it makes more sense to read articles carefully… peace:)