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Sapmi schrieb am 21.04.2007 18:13
Die Unglücklichen verabschieden sich und können somit den Durchschnitt nicht mehr drücken. ;)

sunny1011 schrieb am 21.04.2007 21:16
Das sind absolut nichts-sagende Statistiken.

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Danes and Finns are the most satisfied with their lives, a UN survey says.
20.11.08 12:42

Out of the 27 European Union nations, the Danes and Finns are the most satisfied with their lives, according to an EU study published on Nov. 19.
The second European Quality of Life Survey was published by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound), an EU agency set up in 1975.

According its findings, health and social relationships play a stronger role in happiness than property or financial stability.

In the Nordic countries, people with different income levels reported similar levels of happiness.

The Danes, Finns, Swedes and Dutch, all of whom scored at the top of the happiness index, reported negligible tension between rich and poor in their countries.

The study is based on interviews with more than 35,000 adults, carried out between late 2007 and early 2008 in 31 countries: the 27 EU member state, three candidate countries - Croatia, FYR Macedonia, and Turkey - as well as Norway.

Eurofound will publish full details of the survey in March, including a comparison to a similar study carried out in 2003.

Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden tops
Countries boast the highest happiness quotient...but Iceland falls out of the top 20.
Published: 20.07.2010 12:01
The latest Gallup World Poll indicates that the Nordic countries, with their social welfare states and relative affluence, have some of the happiest people in the world.

Four out of the five Nordic countries grabbed the top spots on the Gallup poll’s list.

Iceland fell to 23rd place this year, after a year of financial and volcanic crisis.

Forbes Magazine reported that the list, ranked by the percentage of a country’s population considered to be “thriving,” was compiled by researchers who surveyed thousands of respondents in 155 countries between 2005 and 2009.

In Norway, also considered by the United Nations to be the world’s best place to live, 69 per cent of the population were said to be thriving while none of the respondents were “suffering.”

But 31 per cent were considered to be “struggling,” compared to 30 per cent in Sweden, even though the economy in Sweden is considered to be weaker than Norway’s.


In Denmark, 82 per cent said to be thriving and only 17 per cent struggling. One per cent of the Danes, though, were considered to be suffering.

In Finland, 75 per cent were considered thriving, 23 per cent struggling and two per cent suffering.

According to Forbes, Gallup researchers first asked those being surveyed to reflect on their overall satisfaction, ranking their answers on a scale of one to 10. Then the researchers asked whether their subjects felt well-rested, respected, free of pain and intellectually engaged. Their answers were used to determine the rate of “thriving, struggling or suffering.”

Costa Rica, New Zealand, Canada, Israel and Australia rounded out the top 10 of the world’s happiest populations.

The United States, meanwhile, ranked 14th on the list of the world’s happiest, behind Panama and Brazil. Japan was 81st and Russia 73rd.