{"id":3735,"date":"2018-03-14T08:25:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T08:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/athis-consulting.com\/news\/?p=3735"},"modified":"2018-09-15T08:05:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T08:05:51","slug":"these-are-the-happiest-countries-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/athis-technologies.com\/news\/society\/2018\/these-are-the-happiest-countries-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"These are the happiest countries in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\">\n<p>Nordic countries take four out of the five top spots, and are well known to be stable, safe and socially progressive. There is very little corruption, and the police and politicians are trusted.<\/p>\n<p><b>Money can\u2019t buy happiness<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\">\n<p>But some of the world\u2019s richest nations, including the US and Japan, are found much further down the list.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\">\n<p>The disparity between wealth and happiness has caused policymakers to broaden their scope and look for other indicators to assess the health of nations, rather than just measuring economic success through GDP.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\">\n<p>But happiness \u2013 or well-being \u2013 is subjective and notoriously difficult to quantify.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\">\n<p>This report is based on international surveys in which thousands of respondents were asked to imagine a ladder with steps numbered 0 to 10 and say where they felt they stood.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\">\n<p>And it cites six significant factors which contribute to happiness; GDP per capita, social support, life expectancy, freedom to make life choices, generosity and corruption levels.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worldhappiness.report\/ed\/2018\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.weforum.org\/editor\/Jjm4BbK8hjTBFPDOInCJWeIZv-6a_9M_7kihVwGY9Gc.png\" alt=\" \" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image__credit\">Image: The World Happiness Report 2018<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\">\n<p><b>Falling down the list<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\">\n<p>Although the US ranks highly for per capita income, it is only ranked 18th out of 156 countries, substantially below most comparably wealthy nations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\">\n<p><b>GDP Ranking by country 2017 (In billions of $)<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/268173\/countries-with-the-largest-gross-domestic-product-gdp\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.weforum.org\/editor\/e6l0VY9gK-LhGxpndL6SWYHYH6pd7nx_kbm03lV2sm8.PNG\" alt=\" \" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image__caption\">Wealth doesn&#8217;t always equate to happiness.<\/div>\n<div class=\"image__credit\">Image: Statista<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\">\n<p>That is because it performs poorly on social measures: life expectancy has declined, inequality has grown and confidence in the government has fallen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\">\n<p>The renowned economist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jeffsachs.org\/\">Jeffrey Sachs<\/a>, who was one of the report\u2019s editors, said the fact that the US was still falling down the rankings was very worrying and revealed deep stress amongst its citizens.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\">\n<p>\u201cI think there really is a deep and very unsettling signal coming through that US society is in many ways under profound stress, even though the economy by traditional measures is doing fine,\u201d he said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/14\/world\/europe\/worlds-happiest-countries.html?emc=edit_mbe_20180315&amp;nl=morning-briefing-europe&amp;nlid=82196611&amp;te=1\">in an interview<\/a>. \u201cThe trends are not good, and the comparative position of the US relative to other high-income countries is nothing short of alarming.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\">\n<p>Sachs highlights three interrelated diseases that need to be tackled; obesity, substance abuse (especially the opioid crisis) and depression.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\">\n<p>The US has one of the highest rates of obesity and the highest rate of antidepressant use in the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.businessinsider.com\/countries-largest-antidepressant-drug-users-2016-2?r=US&amp;IR=T\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.weforum.org\/editor\/EC2VElkfipCopUGxpJoFKk7ivKDU-xHYhWcNsNnt5Y4.png\" alt=\" \" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image__caption\">The US has the highest use of antidepressants in the world<\/div>\n<div class=\"image__credit\">Image: Tech Insider via Business Insider<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\">\n<p>And the plight of the US stands as a pertinent example of why economists are increasingly concerned with measuring happiness rather than wealth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\">\n<p><b>Moving to a happy country can make us happier<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\">\n<p>The report also tried to assess how migration affects happiness, and surveyed the happiness levels of immigrants in each country for the first time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\">\n<p>It found that the happiness of a country\u2019s immigrants is almost identical to that of the wider population, and the people adjust to the average happiness level of the country they move to.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\">\n<p>This suggests that happiness is less about cultural norms and attitudes, and heavily influenced instead by surroundings and the quality of life that a country can offer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\">\n<p>A person who moves to a country higher up the happiness list, for example, is likely to become happier, while a person who moves to a country lower down the list will also feel unhappier.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\">\n<p>And Finland not only has the happiest people, but also the happiest immigrants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nordic countries take four out of the five top spots, and are well known to be stable, safe and socially progressive. 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