People in most countries of the world are becoming increasingly happy in recent years. It showed 25 – summer study at the University of Michigan / USA /, which included 97 countries and covering 90% of the population of our planet. The experts found that the index of happiness and general well-being has improved the vast majority of nations considered.
It turned out that Denmark – for the moment the happiest country, and Zimbabwe – the most miserable. Also in the top ten happiest nations entered the Swiss, Icelanders, the Dutch and Canadians. The United States took 16 – rank in the list after New Zealand. The recent increase in the index of subjective well-being and satisfaction with living conditions occurred in Ukraine, Russia, Moldova, Slovenia, Turkey and Nigeria.
Specialists of all people asked two questions: whether they are happy and satisfied with how their lives in general. So simple by researchers found that the happiness index increased over the past 17 years in 40 countries, but in dropped only 12. Psychologists have noticed that feeling of happiness is sustainable, stable and virtually no change over the life cycle, and events such as winning the lottery or serious illness, only lead to short-term changes in self happiness. It is anticipated that the increasing levels of happiness among many nations played a positive role unprecedented economic growth of low-income countries / such as India and China /, democratization of society in the countries of average income, social tolerance of various minorities and gender equality in developed countries. These factors gave people freedom of choice in life – one of the main criteria for achieving personal happiness, sociologists say.
