World Happiness Report 2015
United Nations, Sustainable Development Solutions Network, World Happiness Report 2015
The World Happiness Report examined 158 countries, and used data from the Gallup World Poll taking into account real GDP per capita, healthy life expectancy, corruption levels and social freedoms. The data used was representative of the years 2012-2014.
The results from the third World Happiness Report shows that Switzerland is the happiest place to be in the world.
The top 21 happiest countries are listed as:
1. Switzerland
2. Iceland
3. Denmark
4. Norway
5. Canada
6. Finland
7. Netherlands
8. Sweden
9. New Zealand
10. Australia
11. Israel
12. Costa Rica
13. Austria
14. Mexico
15. United States
16. Brazil
17. Luxembourg
18. Ireland
19. Belgium
20. United Arab Emirates
21. United Kingdom
The Least Happy Countries are listed as:
1: Togo
2: Burundi
3: Syria
4: Benin
5: Rwanda
6: Afghanistan
7: Burkina Faso
8: Ivory Coast
9: Guinea
10: Chad
Source: http://worldhappiness.report
Full Report in PDF version at: http://worldhappiness.report/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/WHR15.pdf