{"id":11572,"date":"2013-05-30T07:37:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T06:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=11572"},"modified":"2013-05-30T07:37:44","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T06:37:44","slug":"how-happy-are-people-in-your-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=11572","title":{"rendered":"How happy are people in your country?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If your nation is one of the 36 developed countries that is a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation &amp; Development (OECD), then it has just been ranked according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org\">Better Life Index<\/a> which takes into account 11 factors. Of course, this type of index depends crucially on both the factors which make it up and on the weighting given to each factor . But the OECD study is certainly food for though. It offers the following ranking:<\/p>\n<p>1. Australia<br \/>\n2. Sweden<br \/>\n3. Canada<br \/>\n4. Norway<br \/>\n5. Switzerland<br \/>\n6. United States<br \/>\n7. Denmark<br \/>\n8. Netherlands<br \/>\n9. Iceland<br \/>\n10. United Kingdom<br \/>\n11. New Zealand<br \/>\n12. Finland<br \/>\n13. Austria<br \/>\n14. Luxembourg<br \/>\n15. Ireland<br \/>\n16. Belgium<br \/>\n17. Germany<br \/>\n18. France<br \/>\n19. Slovenia<br \/>\n20. Spain<br \/>\n21. Japan<br \/>\n22. Czech Republic<br \/>\n23. Italy<br \/>\n24. Israel<br \/>\n25. Poland<br \/>\n26. Slovak Republic<br \/>\n27. Korea<br \/>\n28. Portugal<br \/>\n29. Hungary<br \/>\n30. Greece<br \/>\n31. Estonia<br \/>\n32. Russia<br \/>\n33. Brazil<br \/>\n34. Chile<br \/>\n35. Mexico<br \/>\n36. Turkey<\/p>\n<p>You will find some discussion of the OECD study <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/may\/28\/australia-best-place-live-work\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your nation is one of the 36 developed countries that is a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation &amp; Development (OECD), then it has just been ranked according to a Better Life Index which takes into account 11 factors. Of course, this type of index depends crucially on both the factors which make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11572","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=11572"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11578,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11572\/revisions\/11578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}