Researchers say that Denmark is the happiest place to live, followed by Switzerland, Austria, Iceland and the Bahamas.
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The main factors that affected happiness were health provision, wealth and education, according to White who said his research had produced the "first world map of happiness."
In a different report, "the Happy Planet Index" Vanuatu, a Pacific Island nation is the happiest place on earth, followed by Columbia, Costa Rica, Dominica and Panama.
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The Happy Planet Index (HPI) is an innovative new measure that shows the ecological efficiency with which human well-being is delivered around the world. It is the first ever index to combine environmental impact with well-being to measure the environmental efficiency with which country by country, people live long and happy lives. The results are surprising, even shocking, but there is much to learn from what they show.
The Index doesn’t reveal the ‘happiest’ country in the world. It shows the relative efficiency with which nations convert the planet’s natural resources into long and happy lives for their citizens. The nations that top the Index aren’t the happiest places in the world, but the nations that score well show that achieving, long, happy lives without over-stretching the planet’s resources is possible. The HPI shows that around the world, high levels of resource consumption do not reliably produce high levels of well-being (life-satisfaction), and that it is possible to produce high levels of well-being without excessive consumption of the Earth’s resources. It also reveals that there are different routes to achieving comparable levels of well-being.
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