Saturday 7 May 2011

World's Happiest Countries

Forbes made a research on the world's happiest countries.
Survey has been done on respondents in 155 countries from year 2005 to 2009.
It's a tough task to survey on happiness. Happiness is hard to be quantified, isn't it?
The respondents were survey on subjects such as overall satisfaction with their lives, and they were be rating with the score from 1 to 10.

It is quite an interesting research, isn't it?

Let's look at the result.

1. Denmark
2. Finland
3. Norway
4. Sweden
4. Netherlands
6. New Zealand
6. Costa Rica
8. Canada
8. Israel
8. Switzerland
8. Australia
12. Brazil
12. Panama
14. Austria
14. United States
16. Belgium
17. United Kingdom
18. Mexico
18. Turkmenistan
20. United Arab Emirates
21. Venezuela
22. Ireland
23. Iceland
26. Colombia
26. Jamaica
28. Cyprus
28. Luxembourg
30. Belize
30. Trinidad and Tobago
30. Argentina

Where is my nation? Malaysia? Perhaps it's at lower rank, let's continue looking on the list.

33. Germany
34. Elsalvador
35. Chile
35. Uruguay
35. Qatar
38. Guatemala
38. Malta
40. Czech Republic
40. Italy
42. Honduras
43. Spain
44. Dominican Republic
44. France
46. Ecuador
46. Bolivia
48. Paraguay
48. Bahrain
50. Guyana
50. Greece
52. Nicaragua
52. Jordan
54. Belarus
54. Kosovo
56. Poland
56. South Korea
58. Pakistan
58. Saudi Arabia
58. Slovenia

Where is Malaysia? I have lost my patience to type the list!
Let's skip, okay?

Here is Malaysia.

91. Serbia
91. Myanmar
91. Bangladesh
94. Malaysia
94. Philippines
96. Tunisia
96. Zambia
96. Cameroon
96. Vietnam
96. Palestinian Territories
96. Macedeonia
96. Yemen
103. Turkey
103. Azerbaijan
103. Hungary
103. Albania
103. Kyrgyzstan

Malaysia is ranked 94 out of 155 countries. We seems like not very happy.
And Denmark is the number one, let's go there now.

To see the full list, click here.

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  2. looks like the richest r the happiest ... LOL

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  3. nvm...Malaysia is not always happy cz of "u know, i know"...i don't care..as long as i'm living happily dah cukup XD

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