UK lags behind in terms of happiness

April 5th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Britain was placed six places behind Costa Rica – a country where average income levels are less than one quarter of those in the UK.

The table was topped by wealthy Scandinavian nations – with Denmark, Finland and Norway said to be the three happiest respectively.

Sub-Saharan nations in Africa, including Sierra Leone and Togo, came at the bottom of the table.
The relatively high level of family breakdown in the UK is one reason why the country may have been pushed down the list.

Despite a general link between a country’s wealth and its mood, economist and author of the World Happiness Report, Jeffrey Sachs, said the two factors were not inherently linked.

Sachs, of New York’s Columbia University, found happiness could be achieved independently of a country’s economic performance.

“The US has had a three-time increase of gross national product per capita since 1960, but the happiness needle hasn’t budged”, he argued.

The report incorporated several British studies which have found that marriage and self-employment were key factors leading to an increase in levels of happiness in the UK.

Sachs added that economic development led to problems such as eating disorders, obesity, diabetes, gambling problems and tobacco-related illnesses.

He also warned there were wider social issues associated with economic growth, including “the loss of community, the decline of social trust, and the rising anxiety levels associated with the vagaries of the modern globalised economy”.

The table was created by the UN, which compiled worldwide survey responses from 2005 until mid-2011 to determine the happiness level of 156 different countries.

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