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The Happiest Place On Earth

The document discusses the United Nations' annual World Happiness Report which ranks over 150 countries based on factors that contribute to happiness. Denmark has consistently ranked as the happiest country since 2012, despite not being the wealthiest. The UN considers wealth but also healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom, generosity, and lack of corruption in its rankings. Denmark scores highest in healthy life expectancy, with the average Dane living to almost 80 years old in fairly good health. The UN hopes to better understand happiness through its ongoing research and help all countries learn from the happiest ones like Denmark.

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The Happiest Place On Earth

The document discusses the United Nations' annual World Happiness Report which ranks over 150 countries based on factors that contribute to happiness. Denmark has consistently ranked as the happiest country since 2012, despite not being the wealthiest. The UN considers wealth but also healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom, generosity, and lack of corruption in its rankings. Denmark scores highest in healthy life expectancy, with the average Dane living to almost 80 years old in fairly good health. The UN hopes to better understand happiness through its ongoing research and help all countries learn from the happiest ones like Denmark.

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Happiest Place on Earth



Since 2012, the United Nations (UN) has been publishing a list of the happiest countries in its annual
World Happiness Report. Each year, a team of economists, psychologists, health experts, and other
professionals analyze and rank over 150 countries in terms of happiness.

What’s the happiest country in the world? It might not be the country you think. The United States has
the largest economy in the world, but it ranks 13th in terms of happiest countries for 2016. China, with
the world’s second largest economy, does not even make the UN’s top 50. In 2016, Denmark was
number one on the list.

Surprisingly, it may not be wealth that makes Denmark the happiest country in the world. According to a
ranking done by Global Finance, Denmark was the 21st wealthiest country in 2015. So why is it number
one on the UN’s list for happiness? The criteria used by the UN include wealth, but the UN also uses five
other factors to determine happiness: a healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom, generosity,
and lack of corruption. Denmark got its highest marks for healthy life expectancy. The average Dane
lives to be about 80 years old, but what's more important is that elderly Danish people are in fairly good
health.

As the statistics on happiness grow each year through the UN’s research, they hope to have a better
understanding of happiness. In 2016, they looked at the correlation between happiness and happiness
equality. Just like with wealth, where there can be a big difference in the number of rich and poor
people, countries can have a big difference in the number of happy people and unhappy people living in
its borders. The UN determined that when happiness is distributed more equally in a country, people are
happier in general.

The UN believes that happiness is an important factor in the quality of human development. They feel
that governments should pay more attention to how happy its citizens are. As more data is collected,
trends can be observed, and hopefully, all countries can learn from and become as happy as Denmark.

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