Report Thailand Ranked 7th Happiest Country in New Global Survey

[Negita43]

Has to depend on at least two things:

1. What is your nationality - Farang or Thai?

2. Which part of Thailand are we talking about ?

[Rayinbkk]

Whoever did the survey obviously forgot to read Asean Now.

[CANSIAM]

I thought Thai's smile when they are extremely angry as well..........😄

[khunPer]

There are only 30 countries in the "Global" survey instead of the normally around 170 countries in Global surveys...

 

 

Link to the Ipsos Happiness Index 2025:

https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2025-03/Ipsos-Global-Happiness-Index-2025_1.pdf

 

In Gallup's World Happiness Report Thailand ranks #49...

 

 

Findland is #1, Denmark is #2, and Iceland is #3...  ...and #6 here is Costa Rica.

 

Link to Gallup World Happiness Report:
https://data.worldhappiness.report/table

 

 

 

[Thumbs]

Who do they actually ask if they are happy for these polls? Lottery winners perhaps. Thai people I wouldn't say are particularly happy they just accept their fate and have given up on the political system, the judicial system so rocking the boat and wanting change are just pipe dreams

[parallelman]

Ipos obviously has heard the three songs that that the Army play every morning and evening.

[AustinRacing]

23 hours ago, Olav Seglem said:

Honestly-this HAS to be "fake news", paid for by government 🙂

 

 

23 hours ago, Olav Seglem said:

Honestly-this HAS to be "fake news", paid for by government 🙂

 

Actually that’s not a bad idea. Imagine starting a polling  business selling information to as many countries as they’re prepared to pay for it. Of course each paying customer will choose the ranking for themselves. They can call one “happiest”, another “gladest”, another “cheerfullest”, and so on. 

[jcmj]

Give it a freaking year. Think it’s all BS now well you can only pay for surveys for so long till the real citizens speak out. Instead of calling the Select few, how about calling your everyday Jo and getting the real insight. 

[Sir Dude]

Lol, who did thay ask? Bet they are not representitive of the Thai public at large... I'd say most Thais are pissed-off with stuff right now. These puff articles have no grounding in reality.

[save the frogs]

Happiness for extended period of time is a myth.

 

It doesn't exist. 

 

No one is perpetually happy or even happy most of the time.

 

 

[BexMan]

India topping the chart, makes me wonder how many people living in poverty there were included in the results? If it was an online thing, then 45% of Indians don’t even have access to the internet. I suspect if you asked Indians across all casts, the result may not show such contentment.

[Harrisfan]

1 hour ago, save the frogs said:

Happiness for extended period of time is a myth.

 

It doesn't exist. 

 

No one is perpetually happy or even happy most of the time.

 

 

Yes life is a rollercoaster

[save the frogs]

11 hours ago, BexMan said:

makes me wonder how many people living in poverty

even people living in affluent countries are full of depression.

 

prozac sales are off the charts in western countries.

and drug use. 

 

[KireB]

On 5/2/2025 at 6:01 PM, KannikaP said:

INDIA = <deleted> hole, happy people? Yes the rich ones, INDONESIA = Muslim law, then come Malaysia sharing the spot with Thailand. Singapore, Japan, and South Korea. So 5 thirds. 

AI made up rubbish IMHO.

Take a chill pill. 

[KireB]

50 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Yes life is a rollercoaster

Everything that goes up, must come down

[Chris Daley]

Very happy place.

 

 

[smew]

They must have wanted to say : Thailand the seventh most angriest country 

[KhunLA]

Don't know if mentioned already, but all of 500 people surveyed of TH's 70 million 😎

[Harrisfan]

8 hours ago, smew said:

They must have wanted to say : Thailand the seventh most angriest country 

For farangs

[ravip]

On 5/2/2025 at 4:26 PM, Olav Seglem said:

Honestly-this HAS to be "fake news", paid for by government 🙂

 

 

On 5/2/2025 at 5:07 PM, Mason45 said:

In Thailand instant happiness comes with the mention of money.

 

 

16 hours ago, Rayinbkk said:

Whoever did the survey obviously forgot to read Asean Now.

~ Where on earth does money bring unhappiness?

~ Definitely the survey did not include foreigners living in Thailand - that should be another survey, IMHO

 

[watchcat]

On 5/2/2025 at 11:12 AM, oxo1947 said:

 

Was this survey taken before they decided to Tax all the old age pensioners here....??

 

 I think they're taxed already in their own country before they got their pension

[BritScot]

On 5/2/2025 at 5:31 PM, Patong2021 said:

Why shouldn't old age pensioners be taxed? 

Are you mad? They are already taxed in their home country and second: eery penny they have saved has already been taxed and quite often more than once. 

[Gknrd]

I took an internal survey, me, myself, and I,  conclusion!

 

It sucked.  About as good a representation as this how wash.

[Cameroni]

No surprises. Thailand is a most happy place, just look at the smiling faces on all the Thais.

 

Who could not be happy in such a paradise?

 

The Orange smoothies alone will have you grinning from ear to ear.

 

Best place in the world.

[BangkokReady]

On 5/2/2025 at 10:06 PM, KhaoHom said:

This is bull<deleted>. The Thai are exhausted. Exhausted of the grind, bs politics, going nowhere, exhausted of the tourists (even if it's just reading the daily plod).

 

I was out for my morning walk up around lat prao yesterday and it struck me as odd how miserable everyone looked going to work.

 

When was the last time you saw anyone on this forum refer to the country as the land of smiles? It's been years for me.

 

It's probably hard for them as their national pride has taken a bit of a beating in the last few years.  Then on top of that they have the credit crunch thing.

[BangkokReady]

23 hours ago, Chris Daley said:

Very happy place.

 

 

 

That was five years ago.  They seem a lot happier now and have left a lot of this political unrest behind them.

 

What changed?  People stopped telling them they were politically oppressed and they stopped worrying about it.  🤷‍♂️

[frank83628]

Obviously this forum and its miserable bitter old coffin dodger members wasn't included in the survey 

[Patong2021]

3 hours ago, BritScot said:

Are you mad? They are already taxed in their home country and second: eery penny they have saved has already been taxed and quite often more than once. 

 

And your point is what? The scenario you are  describing is double taxation. No one is  calling for that. There is a tax treaty between Thailand and Australia that addresses that.  However, a low income  foreign pension living in Thailand has not exactly contributed to Thailand as he, which begs the question as to why one would expect to not contribute to the society in which he lives and benefits from. That would be one hefty dollop of self deluded entitlement.