{"id":1007,"date":"2008-07-06T08:21:28","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T07:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2008-07-06T08:21:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-06T07:21:28","slug":"how-happy-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1007","title":{"rendered":"How happy are you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denmark is the happiest country in the world and Zimbabwe the least happy, according to new data just released by the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research as part of its World Values Survey. The USA only comes 16th, while the UK is just 21st, out of 97 countries &#8211; containing 90% of the world&#8217;s population &#8211; that were surveyed.<br \/>\nThe survey suggested that most people in most countries are becoming happier. In the 52 countries for which a time series is available, the happiest index rose in 40 cases.<br \/>\nYou can check put the media release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ns.umich.edu\/htdocs\/releases\/story.php?id=6629\">here<\/a> and view the results for 97 countries <a href=\"http:\/\/umich.edu\/news\/happy_08\/HappyChart.pdf\">here<\/a>. Another way of looking at this data is the <a href=\"http:\/\/margaux.grandvinum.se\/SebTest\/wvs\/articles\/folder_published\/article_base_54\">Inglehart-Welzel Cultural Map of the World<\/a>.<br \/>\nIf you want some ideas on how to make a country happier, look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nfbooks.html#Happiness\">my review<\/a> of the Richard Layard book &#8220;Happiness&#8221;. If you want some tips for your personal situation, you should look at my web page on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Happy.html\">&#8220;How To Be Happy&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denmark is the happiest country in the world and Zimbabwe the least happy, according to new data just released by the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research as part of its World Values Survey. The USA only comes 16th, while the UK is just 21st, out of 97 countries &#8211; containing 90% of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}