Finland voted world's 'Happiest Country'

The happiness index of a country could be either a social or a political issue.

What factors do you think makes for the happiness of a country as a whole?

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Finland has been crowned the happiest country in the world for the second year in a row, leading a top ten that is made up of five Nordic nations. The World Happiness Report, released today, ranked 156 countries by happiness levels, based on factors such as life expectancy, social support and corruption. But while the Nordic nations of Finland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Iceland topped the table, there was no sign of Britain in the top ten.

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Not everyone agrees with the rankings. Here's a satirical take from Turun Sanomat (Google translation):

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Finland is still the happiest country in the world. This is what the UN report on happiness published on Wednesday says. Finland is now new to the number one in the past year, even with a clear difference to other countries. "Cannot be true," the gloomy foresters meet to hear positive news about themselves: "There must be some mistake here." So must. The home of happiness cannot be Finland. The mind-saver lives in Finland, but happy people live in Kiribati, Greece, Canada or any other Nordic country. Finland was a depressing country this morning to work. The thermometer seemed to be zero and the weather grayed out like Novosibirsk rain. Few people with orphans stepped into their chores to look at the country. The raw wind pollinated the sanding sand and moved the crumbled tobacco sticks, pizza boxes and hamburger wraps along the roasted ashtray. The logs fought with a piece of sausage. Ilona Suojanen, Doctor of Philosophy at Rotterdam, School of Economics, Rotterdam, spoke on the car radio. He said that the basics of happiness research are very Western. At the same time, he wondered how sensible it is to put the countries of the world in order on such grounds. According to Suojaen, the criteria for research are people's own happiness and the country's gross domestic product, life expectancy, friendship, charity money, and government corruption, and the freedom to decide their own affairs. On the basis of these, Finland's number one can be questioned. Credibility is only affected by corruption. Finland is no longer the darkest suicide of the world. Yet there are a lot of 13 suicides per 100 thousand inhabitants. The figure is the European average. Nearly half a million Finns use antidepressants. It may not be a bad thing, and in many countries of comparison, depression is still being treated more cautiously, but the abundance of depression in the overwhelming happiness of citizens is not mentioned. The toughest readings are news about Finnish elderly care and statistics on domestic violence. According to an EU study, Finland is the second most unsafe country in the Union for women. In the study, almost half of Finnish women reported having experienced physical violence after the age of 15. Approximately one third of the violent crimes committed in our country have been committed by a current or former partner. At the same time, with the news of happiness, Finnish media says today that: - The retirement situation of Finns in their thirties seems miserable. - The woman who was killed in Ilomantsi was killed by her family. - The inheritance inheritance was decided by the Supreme Court. - The Oulu District Court dealt with Nazi and racist nominations. - The hockey player has € 50,000 in debts, almost 300,000 with a skipper, and € 3,400,000 with a rocker. This is not the case with Kiribati. Kiribat has no skijumpers.

The UK was 15th and the USA somewhere like 28th. Discuss.

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