The Volokh Conspiracy - World's Happiest Countries

This interesting list ranks the world's happiest countries. Number 1? Denmark. Last? Zimbabwe. The U.S.? 16th overall.

For me the biggest surprise was the clustering of many former Soviet republics at the bottom of the list. For example, Ukraine (5th from the bottom) is apparently far less happy than many other less wealthy countries such as Columbia (3rd from the top) and El Salvador (11th from the top).

	[Paul Cassell, July 2, 2008 at 7:21am] Trackbacks World's Happiest Countries This interesting list ranks the world's happiest countries. Number 1? Denmark. Last? Zimbabwe. The U.S.? 16th overall. For me the biggest surprise was the clustering of many former Soviet republics at the bottom of the list. For example, Ukraine (5th from the bottom) is apparently far less happy than many other less wealthy countries such as Columbia (3rd from the top) and El Salvador (11th from the top).