This is the updated rank of countries by happiness of the Gallup World Poll published by Forbes for the period 2005 – 2009. Forbes said that it corresponds to 155 countries between 2005 and 2009 and it concludes seriously that quantifying happiness isn’t an easy task. We are completely agree and more that we are more suspicious of it with the results that changed so dramatically from the 2007 to the 2010 results. In the 1995 – 2007 World Values Surveys, as an example, Colombia ranked 3rd world happiest country, but in this result it failed to 26th! Now the Gallup researchers were carefully trained to put at the top of happiness the richest nations: ‘The Scandinavian countries do really well,’ says Forbes citing Jim Harter, a chief scientist at Gallup, which developed the poll.
Photo ‘Cheers’ by See-ming Lee from New York, NY, USA
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