Forbes.com has released lists of countries where the happiest people in the world live but South Africa has made a poor showing on them.
On Forbes’ European sub-list, interestingly people resident in the losers of the Fifa Soccer World Cup Final, the Netherlands were rated to be happier than those living in the winning country, Spain.
Forbes said that the levels of happiness were to do with how wealthy people were, on average, in each country. Surprise, surprise then that the five happiest countries in the world—Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands--are all clustered in the same region.
The research was done by the Gallup World Poll, where thousands of respondents in 155 countries, between 2005 and 2009, were surveyed, in order to measure two kinds of well-being.
Subjects were asked to reflect on their overall satisfaction with their lives, and rank their answers using a "life evaluation" score between one and ten. Then they were asked about how they had felt the previous day.
Whether or not Forbes is trying to tell us that we should think more highly of Scandinavian people and other tall, blonde-haired folks, is debatable, either way, the Insider would like to know why South Africa wasn’t even on the top three African countries list.
Malawi was first Libya, second and Botswana, third. In terms of size of Gross Domestic Product, these three countries do not even rival Johannesburg. Perhaps South Africans are just pessimistic.
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