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[World Traveler]

Top 10 happiest countries

1. Norway
Life expectancy at birth (years): 81.1
Income (GNI per capita): US$47,557
Population: 4.9 million

2. Australia
Life expectancy at birth (years): 81.9
Income (GNI per capita): US$34,431
Population: 22.7 million

3. The Netherlands
Life expectancy at birth (years): 80.7
Income (GNI per capita): US$36,402
Population: 16.6 million

4. United States
Life expectancy at birth (years): 78.5
Income (GNI per capita):US$ 43,017
Population: 313 million

5. New Zealand
Life expectancy at birth (years): 80.7
Income (GNI per capita): US$23,737
Population: 4.4 million

6. Canada
Life expectancy at birth (years): 81
Income (GNI per capita): US$35,166
Population: 34 million

7. Ireland
Life expectancy at birth (years): 80.6
Income (GNI per capita): US$29,322
Population: 4.5 million

8. Liechtenstein
Life expectancy at birth (years): 79.5
Income (GNI per capita): US$83,717
Population: 36,300

9. Germany
Life expectancy at birth (years): 80.4
Income (GNI per capita): US$34,854
Population: 82 million

10. Sweden
Life expectancy at birth (years): 81.4
Income (GNI per capita): US$35,837
Population: 9.4 million

http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/life/united-nations-announces-world%E2%80%99s-happiest-country-247768

[Who's Your Daddy?]

Korea is 26th:

http://koreajoongangdaily.joinsmsn.com/news/article/html/824/2942824.html

[johnnyrook]

I've just come back to live in Australia and it does become apparent pretty quickly why we're so happy here. Roll on summer.

[PeteJB]

Half of the listed countries are boring as shit to live in. Right up my street

[No_hite_pls]

[Draz]

Moving to #9 soon, but it's just a detour on the way to #1.

[Ribena]

People are more content in Scandanavian countries apparently. They pay way more tax but apparently they feel secure and happy due to the social system.

Surprised that America has such a low life expectancy.

I was expecting the UK to be at the bottom because that national sport here is moaning. If you don't moan about the weather, the price of everything being a "rip-off", the economy, the government(they all steal each other policies for they are pretty much the same) and Jordan/Jade Goody/Kerry Katona being annoying then you are not really British.

[The Floating World]

^^

No, we're not all like that at all.

If you went on like that all day in my social crowd, you'd be ditched quicker than you could say "I'm a miserable sod.'

Some of us prefer to rise above all that crap and have a good time.

[PeteJB]

A lot of Brits have pretty good standards of living, and at the end of the day they know it. Sure the weather sucks, but who cares about weather when you have a nice warm home to go to. That's why when the results come in they rank higher than you'd expect.

I spent most of my life in the UK, and yeah, it's very easy to get wound up about some of the problems with the country and it's government - but when you start to travel you realise it ain't so bad.

[alwaysgood]

[swinewho]

You could lock MOST Americans in a room with an empty plastic bottle to play with and they would be happy!

[bobbyhanlon]

quality of life and happiness are different things. when surveys that revolve around simply asking people 'are you happy?'/'are you satisfied with life?' come up, the results are incredibly different. places like the philippines rank up near the top, despite being political and economic basket cases, meanwhile poor old korea doesn't even make the top 100.

[rgil627il]

[Ribena]

[happiness]

its all about what happy means isnt it? thats a cultural question. Happy here in Korea may mean to most people great job, nice house and car, and respect from all of their underlings.

to me, a black cup of coffee, sometime outside, my guitar and fuzzboxes, and a bit of green in the bank. a lovely lady is nice too