Posted on 12/20/2012 8:23:27 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Gallup Inc. asked roughly 1,000 people in each of 148 countries the following questions: Did you feel well-respected yesterday? Were you treated with respect all day yesterday? Did you laugh or smile a lot yesterday? Did you learn or do something interesting yesterday? Did you experience the following feelings during a lot of the day yesterday? How about enjoyment?
Here are the 10 the countries where the highest percentage of people answered "yes" to all five questions, and the nine countries with the lowest percentages:
HAPPIEST
Panama, 85 percent
Paraguay, 85 percent
El Salvador, 84 percent
Venezuela, 84 percent
Trinidad and Tobago, 83 percent
Thailand, 83 percent
Guatemala, 82 percent
Philippines, 82, percent
Ecuador, 81 percent
Costa Rica, 81 percent
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Good move.
Just put your assets into the Canadian dollar instead of the US dollar.
As socialist as Canada is - they are solvent.
The top Countries listed have the highest murder rate per capita
in the world.
Hey! That’s my Uncle Joe and Aunt Edna. Before the stock Market crash in ‘87. Wonder where they went?
Going out on a limb here, but I would venture that the high grade quality of marijuana and cocaine in these locations may contribute to the happiness factor.
I recall Montego Bay, Jamaica in the early eighties. People were/are poor as dirt but happy as hell. Was offererd pot,coke, acid and black girls before I got to baggage claim. Welcome to Jamaica, Mon. A land free from malaria
The survey confused the words happy with hungry!
Anyone else been to Paraguay? The part of it I visited was so miserable it was heartbreaking just to see. It left a big impression on me. Perhaps they are Christian, that joy will carry you through anything. I wasn't there long enough to find out and at that point in time I wasn't confident about walking around and asking.
A country that spend decades with the highest suicide rate . . . and to quote Kaunis Maa (Finish Language and Culture for Fun):
"Pekka, an expatriate Finnish man visiting California, was recently diagnosed as clinically depressed, tanked up on anti-depressants and scheduled for controversial Shock Therapy when doctors realised he wasn’t depressed at all - only Finnish."
The short article's worth a read.
RE: Where’s Finland?
According to Gallup ( See here: http://www.gallup.com/poll/159254/latin-americans-positive-world.aspx#2 ).
74% of Finns polled say they are happy. That’s just 2% below the USA.
See the Table in the above link.
Thanks. That ‘happiness’ rate perhaps explains the high national rate of depression, alcoholism, and suicide.
You are welcomed here in Panama.
Keep away from our Panama.
We don’t want you here.
Go keep Obama company.
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