I speak with Finns daily. Never once have I ever been under the impression that they are the world's happiest people. This is hilarious.
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2024
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Finn here. It's OK, nothing to complain.
We can't complaint
- Russians
I am not allowed to talk to you
- North Koreans
That's because Finns don't express feelings. They have them, sure, they just don't express them 😉
Unless drunk, then we are the most open and chatty people in the world
Or in the sauna.
Or better yet: drunk in the sauna
So, Vulcans?
Yes, vulcan rally drivers.
I guess we just don't broadcast it as much. But life is good here so it's very easy to be at least content
No worries, our current right wing government will make sure this will never happen again. I apologize for the incident.
The Conservative take would be that Americans are unhappy because we are ambitious go-getters who are never satisfied.
Took the words right out of my brother’s mouth.
[sigh] Oh, laddie, I remember when I was but a wee lad and satire was possible...
Ukrainians are less happy than Iranians.
The full list (in reverse order, because the document is weird):
- Afghanistan (1.721)
- Lebanon (2.707)
- Lesotho (3.186)
- Sierra Leone (3.245)
- Congo (Kinshasa) (3.295)
- Zimbabwe (3.341)
- Botswana (3.383)
- Malawi (3.421)
- Eswatini (3.502)
- Zambia (3.502)
- Yemen (3.561)
- Comoros (3.566)
- Tanzania (3.781)
- Ethiopia (3.861)
- Bangladesh (3.886)
- Sri Lanka (3.898)
- Egypt (3.977)
- India (4.054)
- Jordan (4.186)
- Togo (4.214)
- Madagascar (4.228)
- Mali (4.232)
- Liberia (4.269)
- Ghana (4.289)
- Cambodia (4.341)
- Myanmar (4.354)
- Uganda (4.372)
- Benin (4.377)
- Tunisia (4.422)
- Kenya (4.470)
- Chad (4.471)
- Gambia (4.485)
- Mauritania (4.505)
- Burkina Faso (4.548)
- Niger (4.556)
- Pakistan (4.657)
- Morocco (4.795)
- Namibia (4.832)
- Ukraine (4.873)
- Cameroon (4.874)
- State of Palestine (4.879)
- Nigeria (4.881)
- Azerbaijan (4.893)
- Iran (4.923)
- Senegal (4.969)
- Turkiye (4.975)
- Guinea (5.023)
- Ivory Coast (5.080)
- Gabon (5.106)
- Laos (5.139)
- Nepal (5.158)
- Iraq (5.166)
- Georgia (5.185)
- Mozambique (5.216)
- Congo (Brazzaville) (5.221)
- Tajikistan (5.281)
- Albania (5.304)
- Hong Kong S.A.R. of China (5.316)
- Algeria (5.364)
- North Macedonia (5.369)
- South Africa (5.422)
- Armenia (5.455)
- Bulgaria (5.463)
- Indonesia (5.568)
- Venezuela (5.607)
- Colombia (5.695)
- Mongolia (5.696)
- Montenegro (5.707)
- Kyrgyzstan (5.714)
- Ecuador (5.725)
- Bolivia (5.784)
- Russia (5.785)
- Moldova (5.816)
- Mauritius (5.816)
- Dominican Republic (5.823)
- Peru (5.841)
- Jamaica (5.842)
- Libya (5.866)
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- Honduras (5.968)
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- Thailand (5.976)
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- Hungary (6.017)
- Portugal (6.030)
- Vietnam (6.043)
- Philippines (6.048)
- South Korea (6.058)
- Japan (6.060)
- Cyprus (6.068)
- Kazakhstan (6.188)
- Argentina (6.188)
- Uzbekistan (6.195)
- Latvia (6.234)
- Slovakia (6.257)
- Brazil (6.272)
- Nicaragua (6.284)
- Guatemala (6.287)
- Italy (6.324)
- Malta (6.346)
- Panama (6.358)
- Chile (6.360)
- Serbia (6.411)
- Spain (6.421)
- Poland (6.442)
- Estonia (6.448)
- El Salvador (6.469)
- Romania (6.491)
- Taiwan Province of China (6.503)
- Singapore (6.523)
- Kosovo (6.561)
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- France (6.609)
- Uruguay (6.611)
- Mexico (6.678)
- Germany (6.719)
- United States (6.725)
- United Arab Emirates (6.733)
- Slovenia (6.743)
- United Kingdom (6.749)
- Lithuania (6.818)
- Czechia (6.822)
- Ireland (6.838)
- Belgium (6.894)
- Canada (6.900)
- Austria (6.905)
- Kuwait (6.951)
- Costa Rica (6.955)
- New Zealand (7.029)
- Australia (7.057)
- Switzerland (7.060)
- Luxembourg (7.122)
- Norway (7.302)
- Netherlands (7.319)
- Israel (7.341)
- Sweden (7.344)
- Iceland (7.525)
- Denmark (7.583)
- Finland (7.741)
Well, if my country was at war, I would not be happy either. Except for some reason, people in Israel.
It seems they're quite happy to commit genocide
Religious fundamentalism is a helluva drug
Yeah apparently they're happy with Mr Security leaving the door open and running a skeleton crew at the border on the 50th anniversary of the last Yom Kippur war.
Lmao I just looked at the post on Jerboa and it started a numbered list from 143, it should be counting down.
I'll bet the Israel questionnaire wasn't mailed to Palestinians...
You would think, spending time here, that America is some hell scape where everyone is miserable and simply fighting to stay alive.
When according to this, Americans are among the happiest in the world.
Number 10.
UK is 20, Germany is 23.
I would think things are better in Germany overall, but they just have higher standards.
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Taiwan Province of China
Ewww. It's Taiwan, Republic of China #1! (ROC 1912 vs. PRC 1949)
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I have been living in Botswana for the past two years, and I'm genuinely surprised where it is on this list. Yeah, people here don't have the greatest deal, but there's freaking universal healthcare here. The country has been extremely politically stable since independence. There's no way people are less happy here than those who are in active war zones.
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notably finland has one of the best education systems
True, but there has been a sharp decline in reading and math for two decades.
So ignorance isn't bliss?
I imagine that having something in recent history to compare yourself to has a significant impact. So, if there are people that have the USSR in their living memory, and then get to live free, they'll have a little more perspective on how much worse things could be.
Then an American with the 90s in living memory will recall what functional government that even had its budget in the green felt like.
Finland was never part of the Soviet Union. The highest-ranked country that was is Lithuania at 19th, although 18th-ranked Czechia was on the Soviet side of the Iron Curtain
Thank you for the correction. I was taking note of the highest increases being in former Warsaw Pact countries rather than the top 20.
Ahh, sorry, misinterpretation of your comment on my part
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i remember not suffering under the surveillance state.
People have been talking about the loss of privacy for decades.
This Peanuts character first appeared in 1963. He's a little boy named '5' whose father changed the family's names to numbers after doing his income tax and being forced to provide tax payer ID, Social Security number, Zip Code, bank account number, and phone number.
that doesn't make me feel any better about having governments and their constructs (corporations) looking over my shoulder.
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Canada is ranked 58 for people under 30, yet 8 for over 60. It’s a nice place if you can make it that far!
Those people probably saw their homes rise in value 10x over their lifetimes. They're not stuck renting shoeboxes for $2000 a month like the rest of us.
Yeah my parents are sitting pretty from buying just after the 2008 crash. It's too bad I was busy being a kid, there's no hope for me now.
Over 60 has all the wealth, obviously they're happy.
It's because they have no natural predators. Everyone else running scared
Did they really interview a statistically respective portion of the ivory coast to get this almost worthless metric? Seems a huge amount of resources which could have gone somewhere useful if so.
What did Cote D'Ivoire do to you for you to pick that one small west African nation from a list of over 100 countries?
They know what they did!!
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Taking their place were Costa Rica and Kuwait at 12 and 13 respectively, while Eastern European countries Serbia, Bulgaria and Latvia reported the biggest increases in happiness.
Afghanistan, plagued by a humanitarian catastrophe since the Taliban regained control in 2020, remained in last place.
Previous research into wellbeing often found happiness to be highest in childhood and early teens, before falling in middle age and then rising again upon retirement.
"Youth, especially in North America, are experiencing a mid-life crisis today," said University of Oxford economics professor and report editor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve.
He associated the increasing unhappiness among western youth with a range of factors including the negative aspects of social media, increased polarization over social issues, and economic inequality that made it harder for young people to afford their own homes than in the past.
"Finnish society is permeated by a sense of trust, freedom, and high level of autonomy," she said, adding that Finns' strong welfare society, trust in state authorities, low levels of corruption and free healthcare and education were also key.
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