Posted on 07/02/2008 2:34:46 PM PDT by indcons
Denmark, with its democracy, social equality and peaceful atmosphere, is the happiest country in the world, researchers said on Monday.
Zimbabwe, torn by political and social strife, is the least happy, while the world's richest nation, the United States, ranks 16th.
Overall, the world is getting happier, according to the U.S. government-funded World Values Survey, done regularly by a global network of social scientists.
It found increased happiness from 1981 to 2007 in 45 of 52 countries analyzed.
"I strongly suspect that there is a strong correlation between peace and happiness," said Ronald Inglehart, a political scientist at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research, who directed the study.
And, said Ingelhart, there is a strong correlation between happiness and democracy.
"Denmark is the happiest country in the world in our ratings," Inglehart said in an audio statement released by the National Science Foundation, which paid for the analysis.
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BTW, take a look at the photo accompanying this story. Talk about an agenda!
Why are people flocking to the US..why aren't they going to Denmark?
And yet, the libs (even the ones who did the study) can't quite seem to grasp this. They also listed Columbia as high on the happiness list.
I’m surprised the happiest place wasn’t in the tropics. Most of my perennial misery comes in late winter. I’m good to go from ice-out until mid-January.
They don't call them Gay for nothing!
They moved back to Denmark because of family.
Their taxes are sky high. But they, like the other Danes, are happy = if you don't mind living like sardines.
I suspicion for a lot of them, they're ‘happy’ because it's the only life they've known.
Ja, everyone is happy in Denmark except he Muslim residents. Well, they are never happy unless blowing up infidels.
Don't tell the Democrats. It will spoil their supper.
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