The latest report on World Happiness 2016 indicates that the happiest countries in the world are Denmark, Switzerland and Iceland.<\/p>\n
What do they have in common? It's not only about money. According to some authors of the report, other aspects are also assessed, such as social support their inhabitants receive or the generosity they experience.<\/p>\n
JOHN HELLIWELL
\nUniversity of British Columbia
\n'People are asked all over the world not just 'are you happy?' the emotion, like I ask you, but to think of your life as a ladder with the worst possible life as a 0 and the best as a 10. How would you rate your life today?\u00e2?\u009d\u00a0
\n'And in the World Happiness Report we not only report those answers, but we try to explain what makes people happier in some countries than others.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n
Some of the experts who worked on the report explained the keys in a forum called 'The Courtyard of the Gentiles,' organized by the Vatican. Jeffrey Sachs, who has twice been named among the 100 most influential people in the world, spoke before hundreds of young students. He said it is important to understand that is not selfish to claim personal happiness, but to be full, it should be shared with someone else. No one can be happy if they are alone.<\/p>\n
JEFFREY SACHS
\nUniversity of Columbia
\n'What does it mean? We must, of course, look out for our own interests; but we aren't even human beings if we're not looking after the interest of others. If we're not living that philosophy today, now, when would we?\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n
Jeffrey Sachs also collaborated with Pope Francis on the last encyclical, Laudato si'. He told the students his impressions of the Argentine Pope.<\/p>\n
JEFFREY SACHS
\nUniversity of Columbia
\n'His first message to the world was called Evangelii Gaudium. Gaudium, of course, Latin for joy. He used a phrase in Envangelii Gaudium that I think is the most important phrase that I know about the real state of life in our world today. He called it globalization of indifference, that we have a world of indifference where it is indifference that has been globalized.'<\/p>\n
The report notes that there are other key factors to happiness such as family, friends or work.<\/p>\n
The factor that promotes unhappiness, of course, is war. It is no wonder that Syria, for example, is the penultimate on the list and Burundi comes in last.<\/p>\n
Ranking of Happiness\u00a0<\/p>\n
1. Denmark\u00a0
\n2. Switzerland\u00a0
\n3. Iceland\u00a0
\n4. Norway\u00a0
\n5. Finland\u00a0
\n6. Canada\u00a0
\n7. Netherlands\u00a0
\n8. New Zealand\u00a0
\n9. Australia\u00a0
\n10. Sweden\u00a0
\n11. Israel\u00a0
\n12. Austria\u00a0
\n13. United States\u00a0
\n14. Costa Rica\u00a0
\n15. Puerto Rico\u00a0
\n16. Germany\u00a0
\n17. Brazil\u00a0
\n18. Belgium\u00a0
\n19. Ireland\u00a0
\n20. Luxembourg\u00a0
\n21. Mexico\u00a0
\n22. Singapore\u00a0
\n23. United Kingdom\u00a0
\n24. Chile\u00a0
\n25. Panama\u00a0
\n26. Argentina\u00a0
\n27. Czech Republic\u00a0
\n28. United Arab Emirates\u00a0
\n29. Uruguay\u00a0
\n30. Malta\u00a0
\n31. Colombia\u00a0
\n32. France\u00a0
\n33. Thailand\u00a0
\n34. Saudi Arabia\u00a0
\n35. Taiwan\u00a0
\n36. Qatar\u00a0
\n37. Spain\u00a0
\n38. Algeria\u00a0
\n39. Guatemala\u00a0
\n40. Suriname\u00a0
\n41. Kuwait\u00a0
\n42. Bahrain\u00a0
\n43. Trinidad and Tobago\u00a0
\n44. Venezuela\u00a0
\n45. Slovakia\u00a0
\n46. El Salvador\u00a0
\n47. Malaysia\u00a0
\n48. Nicaragua\u00a0
\n49. Uzbekistan\u00a0
\n50. Italy\u00a0
\n51. Ecuador\u00a0
\n52. Belize\u00a0
\n53. Japan\u00a0
\n54. Kazakhstan\u00a0
\n55. Moldova\u00a0
\n56. Russia\u00a0
\n57. Poland\u00a0
\n58. South Korea\u00a0
\n59. Bolivia\u00a0
\n60. Lithuania\u00a0
\n61. Belarus\u00a0
\n62. North Cyprus\u00a0
\n63. Slovenia\u00a0
\n64. Peru\u00a0
\n65. Turkmenistan\u00a0
\n66. Mauritius\u00a0
\n67. Libya\u00a0
\n68. Latvia\u00a0
\n69. Cyprus\u00a0
\n70. Paraguay\u00a0
\n71. Romania\u00a0
\n72. Estonia\u00a0
\n73. Jamaica\u00a0
\n74. Croatia\u00a0
\n75. Hong Kong\u00a0
\n76. Somalia\u00a0
\n77. Kosovo\u00a0
\n78. Turkey\u00a0
\n79. Indonesia\u00a0
\n80. Jordan\u00a0
\n81. Azerbaijan\u00a0
\n82. Philippines\u00a0
\n83. China\u00a0
\n84. Bhutan\u00a0
\n85. Kyrgyzstan\u00a0
\n86. Serbia\u00a0
\n87. Bosnia and Herzegovina\u00a0
\n88. Montenegro\u00a0
\n89. Dominican Republic\u00a0
\n90. Morocco\u00a0
\n91. Hungary\u00a0
\n92. Pakistan\u00a0
\n93. Lebanon\u00a0
\n94. Portugal\u00a0
\n95. Macedonia\u00a0
\n96. Vietnam\u00a0
\n97. Somaliland region\u00a0
\n98. Tunisia\u00a0
\n99. Greece\u00a0
\n100. Tajikistan\u00a0
\n101. Mongolia\u00a0
\n102. Laos\u00a0
\n103. Nigeria\u00a0
\n104. Honduras\u00a0
\n105. Iran\u00a0
\n106.Zambia\u00a0
\n107. Nepal\u00a0
\n108. Palestinian Territories\u00a0
\n109.Albania\u00a0
\n110. Bangladesh\u00a0
\n111. Sierra Leone\u00a0
\n112. Iraq\u00a0
\n113. Namibia\u00a0
\n114. Cameroon\u00a0
\n115. Ethiopia\u00a0
\n116. South Africa\u00a0
\n117. Sri Lanka\u00a0
\n118. India\u00a0
\n119. Myanmar\u00a0
\n120. Egypt\u00a0
\n121. Armenia\u00a0
\n122. Kenya\u00a0
\n123. Ukraine\u00a0
\n124. Ghana\u00a0
\n125. Congo (Kinshasa)\u00a0
\n126. Georgia\u00a0
\n127. Congo (Brazzaville)\u00a0
\n128. Senegal
\n129. Bulgaria\u00a0
\n130. Mauritania\u00a0
\n131. Zimbabwe\u00a0
\n132. Malawi\u00a0
\n133. Sudan\u00a0
\n134. Gabon\u00a0
\n135. Mali
\n136. Haiti
\n137. Botswana
\n138. Comoros\u00a0
\n139. Ivory Coast\u00a0
\n140. Cambodia\u00a0
\n141. Angola\u00a0
\n142. Niger\u00a0
\n143. South Sudan\u00a0
\n144. Chad\u00a0
\n145. Burkina Faso\u00a0
\n146. Uganda\u00a0
\n147. Yemen\u00a0
\n148. Madagascar\u00a0
\n149. Tanzania\u00a0
\n150. Liberia\u00a0
\n151. Guinea\u00a0
\n152. Rwanda\u00a0
\n153. Benin\u00a0
\n154. Afghanistan
\n155. Togo\u00a0
\n156. Syria\u00a0
\n157. Burundi\u00a0<\/p>\n
JRB\/MB
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\nVM\/JM
\n-PR
\nUp:IPC
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