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The World Happiness Report - Magical Realist - May 21, 2018
I'm moving to Finland.
http://worldhappiness.report/ed/2018/
"The World Happiness Report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness. The World Happiness Report 2018, ranks 156 countries by their happiness levels, and 117 countries by the happiness of their immigrants.
The main focus of this year’s report, in addition to its usual ranking of the levels and changes in happiness around the world, is on migration within and between countries.
The overall rankings of country happiness are based on the pooled results from Gallup World Poll surveys from 2015-2017, and show both change and stability. There is a new top ranking country, Finland, but the top ten positions are held by the same countries as in the last two years, although with some swapping of places. Four different countries have held top spot in the four most recent reports- Denmark, Switzerland, Norway and now Finland.
All the top countries tend to have high values for all six of the key variables that have been found to support well-being: income, healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom, trust and generosity. Among the top countries, differences are small enough that that year-to-year changes in the rankings are to be expected.
The analysis of happiness changes from 2008-2010 to 2015-2015 shows Togo as the biggest gainer, moving up 17 places in the overall rankings from the last place position it held as recently as in the 2015 rankings. The biggest loser is Venezuela, down 2.2 points on the 0 to 10 scale.
Five of the report’s seven chapters deal primarily with migration, as summarized in Chapter 1. For both domestic and international migrants, the report studies not just the happiness of the migrants and their host communities, but also of those left behind, whether in the countryside or in the source country. The results are generally positive.
Perhaps the most striking finding of the whole report is that a ranking of countries according to the happiness of their immigrant populations is almost exactly the same as for the rest of the population. The immigrant happiness rankings are based on the full span of Gallup data from 2005 to 2017, sufficient to have 117 countries with more than 100 immigrant respondents.
The ten happiest countries in the overall rankings also ll ten of the top eleven spots in the ranking of immigrant happiness. Finland is at the top of both rankings in this report, with the happiest immigrants, and the happiest population in general..."
RE: The World Happiness Report - C C - May 22, 2018
(May 21, 2018 04:42 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: I'm moving to Finland.
I'd occasionally heard that Jimi Hendrix had a child born out of wedlock in Finland. (The band played at the House of Culture in Helsinki in 1967.) Translated, the audio-video clip below is even titled "Jimi Hendrix has an unmarried child in Finland". But who knows what the narrator is actually saying. Where he did have a clear and potential "wild-oats" Euro son was in Sweden: Hendrix Jr. Sues Jimi Estate (1994).
Jimi Hendrixillä on avioton lapsi Suomessa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuQ-nm34o10
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