Denmark is the happiest place on earth

According to World Happiness Report published by The Earth Institute at Columbia University and commissioned for a United Nations conference on happiness, Denmark is the happiest country in the world followed by Finland, Norway and the Netherlands.

The 158-page report, the first of its kind ever, ranks countries on a “life evaluation score” that takes into account a variety of factors such as wealth, government corruption, political freedom and job security. The sources include the Gallup World Poll (GWP), the World Values Survey (WVS), the European Values Survey (EVS), and the European Social Survey (ESS).

- It is no accident that the happiest countries in the world tend to be high-income countries that also have a high degree of social equality, trust and quality of government, write the authors of the study in the introduction.