Lanka ranks 22 in Happiness Planet Index
June 10, 2011 10:52 am
In many countries, including India, people expect and assume that economic power guarantees happiness, but it seems that assumption is wrong.
The United States economy is still the largest and wealthiest in the entire world. And relative to Europe and Japan, the US is recovering quite well from the economic recession that threatened to cripple most nations.
But according to a study released by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, America does not appear anywhere among the top happiest countries.
So, if citizens of a country as wealthy and rich as the US are not happy, that surely means that economic prosperity alone cannot guarantee happiness.
On a side note, the OECD did not include India in its study simply because India is not part of the OECD, which includes only developed countries.
But
according to a study conducted by the New Economics Foundation, India was 35 in
its Happiness Planet Index, while Bhutan was 17, Sri Lanka 22 and Pakistan 24.
Top Ten countries -
1. Netherlands
2. Denmark
3. Finland
4. Norway
5. Sweden
6. Canada
7. Switzerland
8. Australia
9. Austria
10. Israel
(Rediff)
