The World Happiness Report – Measuring Countries’ Well-Being
The first World Happiness Report was published in April 2012, in conjunction with the U.N. High Level Meeting on happiness and well-being.
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Bhutan – the land where performance is measured through happiness
We live in a world where everything is quantifiable and needs to be measured. We count our daily calories, our days of work ‘till the next vacations, we measure air pollution in cities and tend to start a “Top 10” list for almost everything.
How can world happiness impact the future?
Imagine yourself climbing a ladder made out of ten steps. The highest step is, ideally, where you want to be in life. But at which step are you at this point? This is, roughly, the question whose answer is presented in the World Happiness Report, after surveying people in 158 nations. The point where you envision yourself to be on the ladder is your level of happiness. The higher you are up the ladder, the happier you are. Conversely, the closer to the ground you are, the lower your level of happiness is.
The Danes – the happiest people in the world in 2013
According to the 2013 World Happiness report, Denmark is the happiest country in the world. The study rated the current state of people’s living, and Denmark scored 7.693, on a scale from 0 to 10, where 0 stands for the worst possible life and 10 for the best.
Ranking countries on the happiness factor
Happiness is an aspiration of every individual, but it can also represent a measure of social progress. In July 2011 the United Nations General Assembly took a historical step, by inviting member countries to measure the happiness of their people. One year later, the first “World Happiness Report” was launched and now these reports rank world’s countries using the happiness factor every year.
