Happiness: South Asia
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2015
Apr 25 2015
Unhappy India ranks 117th on world happiness index
Chidanand Rajghatta
Happiness is a warm puppy to some, and to others, happiness is a long weekend when the alarm doesn't need to be set. Setting aside sticker wisdom, savants who survey the world's wellbeing now take into account a range of metrics that includes not just individual satisfaction and wealth, but also broad contentment: social support, healthy life expectancy , freedom to make life choices, perceptions of corruption, and Dystopia, a generally bleak place where things are going downhill.
All things considered, it doesn't look too good for India.Already rated an unhappy place in 2014 with a ranking of 111, the country dropped six places to 117 out of 158 countries ranked in the 2015 list, which took into account data from 2012-2015.
Switzerland, of whose people it was jokingly said they would have made the Alps flatter if they could, displaced Denmark from first place. Iceland, recovering from its economic meltdown, was placed second. Denmark, Norway , and Canada rounded off the top five. The US came 15th and China was ranked at 84.
The bottom 10 were what are broadly described as crisis states, wracked by disease or war: Chad, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Afghan istan, Rwanda, Benin, Syria, Burundi and Togo. At 81 and 109, Pakistan and Bangladesh, respectively , are positioned happier than India.
