the first 3 criteria used for the rankings are totally dumb:

"real GDP per capita, healthy life expectancy, someone to count on,"

- GDP is totally misleading, it is more a reflection of how quickly the money turns around and how many people have their fingers in the pie.

- life expectancy: the less people can actually DO, the less risks they have to die from accidents. Japan? one of the highest suicide rates in the world and one of the top countries where people live oldest.

- someone to count on ??? huh?

I think other figures are more important, such as:

- ratio average cost of living / median disposable income

- turnover rate in employment (the higher the better)

- tax burden

- free school and free healthcare

- climate / weather

- easy to get laid or not

- availability of services / business hours

- ease of regulations for small business

etc.

those happyness rankings are bullshit.

they are based on "reasonable" criteria, but happyness is not reasonable.

Are you planning on visiting Toga any time soon then ?

happiness is an individual thing, some are happy in thailand some arnt,

i wasnt unhappy in england, i had a nice house, and friends, golf, horses,

but i came to thailand and met my wife and she makes me happier, so it was thailand,

not saying that we will never move to the uk,

who knows what the future holds,

jake

Biggest problem with such a list in general is that the richest countries often don't have the happiest ppl and some of the happiest ppl happen to be in poor countries go figure that out but the poll in this case shows all happy ppl happen to come from europe and farang majority areas like canada and oz.

Well i suppose to be a happier person you need to be born a farang.