India positions 122nd in World Happiness Report, behind its neighbors Pakistan and China
Tuesday, March 21, 2017 IST
India positions 122nd in World Happiness Report, behind its neighbors Pakistan and China
India positioned 122nd, behind terror-riven Pakistan and poorest-of-poor Nepal in the worldwide rundown of the most joyful nations, as indicated by a worldwide report discharged on Monday.
India positioned at 122 out of 155 nations in the World Happiness Report 2017, four scores beneath its past rank of 118. The report was discharged on Monday at the United Nations at an occasion observing International Day of Happiness.
India was behind the greater part of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) countries, aside from war-attacked Afghanistan, that remained at 141.
AT A GLANCE: HAPPIEST, SADDEST COUNTRIES
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HAPPIEST COUNTRIES
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1. Norway 7.54
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2. Denmark 7.42
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3. Iceland 7.5
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4. Switzerland 7.49
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5. Finland 7.47
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6. Netherlands 7.38
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7. Canada 7.32
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8. New Zealand 7.321
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9. Australia 7.28
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10. Sweden 7.28
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SADDEST COUNTRIES
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146. Yemen 3.59
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147. South Sudan 3.59
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148. Liberia 3.53
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149. Guinea 3.51
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150. Togo 3.49
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151. Rwanda 3.47
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152. Syria 3.46
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153. Tanzania 3.35
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154. Burundi 2.91
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155. Central African Republic 2.69
Among the eight Saarc countries, Pakistan was at 80th position, Nepal remained at 99, Bhutan at 97, Bangladesh at 110 while Sri Lanka was at 120. Nonetheless, Maldives did not figure in the World Happiness Report.
Norway moved from No. 4 to the top spot in the report's rankings, which join monetary, wellbeing and surveying information incorporated by market analysts that are arrived at the midpoint of more than three years from 2014 to 2016. Norway edged past champ Denmark, which tumbled to second. Iceland, Switzerland and Finland round out the main 5.
Contemplating joy may appear to be unimportant, yet genuine scholastics have for some time been calling for all the more testing about individuals' passionate prosperity, particularly in the United States. In 2013, the National Academy of Sciences issued a report suggesting that government insights and reviews, which ordinarily manage pay, spending, wellbeing and lodging, incorporate a couple of additional inquiries on bliss since it would prompt better approach that influences individuals' lives.
The whole main ten were wealthier created countries. However cash is by all account not the only fixing in the formula for bliss, the report said.
Indeed, among the wealthier nations the distinctions in joy levels had a ton to do with "contrasts in psychological well-being, physical wellbeing and individual connections: the greatest single wellspring of hopelessness is emotional sickness," the report said.
"Salary contrasts matter more in poorer nations, however even their emotional instability is a noteworthy wellspring of wretchedness," it included.
Another significant nation, China, has made major monetary walks as of late. Be that as it may, its kin are not more joyful than 25 years back, it found.
The United States in the mean time slipped to the number 14 spot because of less social support and more prominent defilement; those extremely figures play why Nordic nations admission better on this size of grins.
What works in the Nordic nations is a feeling of group and comprehension in the benefit of everyone," said Meik Wiking, CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen, who wasn't a piece of the worldwide logical review that turned out with the rankings.
The rankings depend on total national output per individual, sound future with four variables from worldwide overviews. In those overviews, individuals give scores from 1 to 10 on how much social bolster they feel they have if something turns out badly, their flexibility to settle on their own life decisions, their feeling of how degenerate their general public is and how liberal they are.