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Costa Ricans Have Most "Happy Years" Of Life
An update of the World Database of Happiness
calculates Costa Rica is at the top of the
list for quality of life in 148 countries,
Dutch researchers say.
Researchers at the Erasmus University of
Rotterdam in the Netherlands developed the
World Database of Happiness, which combines
life assessment averages and life expectancy
averages. It is an estimate of how long and
happy the average citizen will live in that
nation.
The latest "happy years" ranking includes
148 countries and covers more than 95
percent of the world population.
Costa Rica tops the list in the class, with
an average of 66.7 happy years of life,
followed by Iceland with 66.4 years and
Denmark 65 happy years.
Canada ranks fifth at 64 years, while he
United States is listed at 58 years.
The list also lists the life expectancy for
each country.
In Costa Rica the life expectancy is 78.5
years with an 8.5 (out of 10) satisfaction
with life. The US and Canada life expectancy
is 77.9 and 80.3 and satisfaction with life
rate of 7.4 and 8, respectively.
In Central America, Nicaraguans can
expect 51 happy years, with a life
expectancy of 71.2 and satisfaction
with life rate of 7.1; Guatemala
49.8 happy years, a life
expectancy of 69.7 and satisfaction with
life rate of 7.2: Honduras 48.7
happy years, a life expectancy of 69.4
and 7 and El Salvador, 47.6 happy years,
a life expectancy of 71.3 and satisfaction
with life rate of 6.7. Panamanians
58.5 happy years, a life expectancy of
75.1 and satisfaction with life rate of
7.8.
Colombians can expect 55.8 happy years,
a life expectancy of 72.3 and satisfaction
with life rate of 7.7, while their
neighbours in Venezuela can expect only
53 happy years, a life expectancy of
73.2 and satisfaction with life rate of
7.2. In Brazil the happy years are 53.6,
a life expectancy of 71.7, and satisfaction
with life rate of 7.5; Bolivia 42.1
happy years, a life expectancy of 64.7
and satisfaction with life rate of
6.5; Peru 44 happy years, a life
expectancy of 70.7 and satisfaction with
life rate of 6.3; and in Argentina
they can expect 54.9 happy years, a life
expectancy of 74.8 and satisfaction with
life rate of 7.3
The World Database of Happiness is an
ongoing register of scientific research on
the subjective enjoyment of life It brings
together findings that are scattered
throughout many studies and provides a basis
for synthetic work.
The findings are scheduled to be presented
at the III Organization for Economic
Co-operation and Development World Forum in
Busan, South Korea.
The following link will take you to the full
list of how long and happy live in countries
around the world.
http://www.worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl/hap_nat/findingreports/RankReport2009-2d.htm |
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