Happiness around the world

Happiness around the world

For several decades now, the World Database of Happiness has tracked how happy people are around the world by asking them to rate their happiness on the following scale:

  • not at all happy
  • not very happy
  • quite happy
  • very happy

As it turns out, most people report reasonable levels of happiness even when things aren’t going that well. Check out this pictorial representation of how much happiness people around the world reported over the last 30 years – click here