July 1, 2008


the geography of happiness

Denmark is the happiest country and Zimbabwe the least.

posted by Deron Bauman in international, psychology 

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5 Responses to “the geography of happiness”

  1. Derek on July 1st, 2008 at 1:40 pm

    I don’t think people are reliable sources about their own happiness.

    A better metric is probably suicide rate, and Denmark is high up on the list ( #27, though Zimbawe ranks #56 out of 100)/
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate

  2. Sheila Ryan on July 1st, 2008 at 2:16 pm

    My grandmother emigrated to the States from the northwest part of Jutland, and my husband’s great-grandfather’s people, I believe it was, were from Helsingore (Elsinore — yes, the court of ‘the gloomy Dane’). We’re a cheery pair, we are. Happiest folk you could hope to meet.

  3. vin. on July 3rd, 2008 at 2:37 pm

    They obviously didn’t explore Southeast Missouri very much as part of this study.

  4. Sheila Ryan on July 3rd, 2008 at 3:15 pm

    Vin, I believe that’s the most perfectly cryptic comment I’ve ever read here on clusterflock! (Probably because I’m somewhat familiar with southeast Missouri.)

  5. the 100-billion dollar note : clusterflock on July 21st, 2008 at 7:54 am

    [...] Perhaps they are the least happy nation. [...]

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