Can you name the countries whose residents have the highest satisfaction with life? by PumpkinBomb

Can you name the countries whose residents have the highest satisfaction with life?

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Source: Adrian G. White, University of Leicester (page 4)
The Satisfaction with Life index was calculated by surveying people in each country to determine how happy they were. Health, wealth, and access to education were found to be major factors.
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Happiness! Quiz

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Created Dec 7, 2009 in Geography
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	zoopy:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 04:11 GMT		7 points
	Wonder how happy Icelanders are after they lost all their money. (Same for Irish, UAE, and even, Swedes.)

	marsco:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 08:16 GMT		16 points
	Good quizzes so far. Go on with it! And I really like your catchy titles. :-p

	corington:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 13:08 GMT		25 points
	Like it - strange how high Finland is here, but also on the Suicide quiz...

	dtro:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 14:52 GMT		3 points
	Was about to say that corington. How do you make both this and the suicide list?

	cutlip:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 16:21 GMT		3 points
	corrington, i found that rather ironic as well

	Lighthouse:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 16:52 GMT		33 points
	all the sad Finns comitted suicide...

	Omni314:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 17:43 GMT		1 point
	uk position as a bonus perhaps?

	henstud:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 18:21 GMT		1 point
	good quiz, i spent too long trying to get all the bonus answers (i got 19, can anyone beat that?) how many are there just out of interest?

	FastEddie:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 19:56 GMT		33 points
	I thought North Korea would be #1 with 100%. You know, have the government ask its citizens, "You're satisfied with life here, right?" while nudging them with a rifle.

	JesusMChrist:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 20:36 GMT		2 points
	haha i dont know how many bonuses are out there but I got 20.

	bandersnatch:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 20:36 GMT		7 points
	I'd expect the same countries to top the happiness and the suicide lists.. Considering that the ones who commit suicide are unhappy, that just leaves the happier ones?

	JezuzFingerz:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 20:42 GMT		6 points
	Surprised to see people are happier in China than Japan

	newenglander:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 20:54 GMT		5 points
	im not surprised at eastern asia, seeing how they're workoholics their entire lives, but was surprised with a lot of the european countries considering their social services and long vacations

	newenglander:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 20:58 GMT		1 point
	@corrington-maybe youre either really happy or really sad in Finland.

	Spl89:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 21:00 GMT		3 points
	I'm surprised France is so low down, it always comes so high in "Best places to live" type lists.

	Matt999:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 21:51 GMT		7 points
	From what I remember of going to Russia, it really does deserve its place at 167. When the citizens aren't depressed they're spitting with rage.

	yoshiman:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 22:48 GMT		1 point
	haha switzerland is #2 here but also on the suicide quiz

	symphonyofsounds:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 22:50 GMT		6 points
	major props. for all the bonus answers i got in the time limit, i can tell you put a lot of time into this. good job!

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	Psyk:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 19:02 GMT		2 points
	There's also a few on here that are on the highest murder rate quiz. I guess they really are laid back in Bahamas. So much so they just don't care that they might get murdered.

	Qazza2k9:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 19:46 GMT		2 points
	I cant view the link, which country is last?

	delToro87:	Dec 10th, 2009 at 00:16 GMT		1 point
	Yay, we're happier than France! Suck on that Frenchies!

	fluffy:	Dec 10th, 2009 at 01:42 GMT		11 points
	Bahamas, Barbados, St Kitts...I'd be really happy too if I lived in a tropical island nation.

	geographun:	Dec 10th, 2009 at 03:13 GMT		2 points
	I wonder if people from Greenland were also surveyed as it is a territory administered by Denmark...

	cutlip:	Dec 10th, 2009 at 11:54 GMT		2 points
	geographun - probably not

	ohil:	Dec 11th, 2009 at 09:31 GMT		2 points
	@pottedstu: southern germany is really not that diffrent to austria, but I have to say that austrian beer is not that bad;););)

	laughing_mariner:	Dec 11th, 2009 at 20:18 GMT		5 points
	It just goes to show, um... something or other. Probably.

	the_ever_lasting:	Dec 13th, 2009 at 03:24 GMT		2 points
	I got almost every single bonus answer... in fact, i think i got more bonus answers than i did get the answers to the quiz! I'm sure that the people that live in Denmark are smiling at this quiz.

	lucia:	Dec 29th, 2009 at 01:55 GMT		3 points
	this sure is an interesting fact, i mean it goes to show how different issues count to happiness. The first few countries are all nordic, rich, very cold, and then you have the bahamas, a poor, warm, tropical country. Places like brunei, japan, costa rica, un. arab emirates, i would have never guessed are happier than, say italy, or my own country brazil.

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	Flick:	Feb 19th, 2010 at 18:26 GMT		8 points
	Well if Mark Twain was correct in his observation that 'Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination'.You must be mad to live in Copenhagen!

	jefrunner:	May 13th, 2010 at 16:43 GMT		1 point
	@fluffy - I was about halfway through the time limit and not doing so well when it suddenly occurred to me, "Oh right, maybe I should guess some f'ing tropical paradises!" Did much better once I pulled in the Caribbean, South Pacific, and Mediterranean.

	Raynard:	May 13th, 2011 at 13:01 GMT		0 points
	lol Russians are emo.

	SunflowerMelanie:	May 14th, 2011 at 02:50 GMT		2 points
	I actually watched a documentary on "happiness" in Denmark, and the reason the Danes were so "happy" or "satisfied with life" was because they had really low expectations. It's countries where children are expected to excel at everything that such severe unhappiness occurs, and of course the usual suspects like crime, poverty, natural disasters, etc.