09 April 2012 | 12:41

Kazakhstan is ahead of Russia and Ukraine in happy countries rating

Columbia University's Earth Institute made a list of the happiest countries and commissioned it for the United Nations Conference on Happiness. The the World Happiness Report ranks the happiness of the world’s nations based on a “life evaluation score” that is a number between 0 and 10 that measures several factors including health, family and job security, and social factors like political freedom, social networks and lack of government corruption. Northern European countries turned out to be the happiest countries in the world according to this score. Denmark is the leader of the rating. Norway, Finland, the Netherlands and Switzerland follow it. Sweden, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland are also in the Top 10. The U.S. is ranked 11th. Kazakhstan is in the 59th place and it is ahead of Lithuania (60th), Belorussia (62nd), Estonia (72nd) and Russia (76th). Uzbekistan is ranked 79th, Ukraine is ranked 91st and Latvia is 116th. African countries Togo, Benin, Central African Republic and Sierra Leona turned out to be the unhappiest countries of the world. The total of 156 countries are rated in the report.

Columbia University's Earth Institute made a list of the happiest countries and commissioned it for the United Nations Conference on Happiness. The the World Happiness Report ranks the happiness of the world’s nations based on a “life evaluation score” that is a number between 0 and 10 that measures several factors including health, family and job security, and social factors like political freedom, social networks and lack of government corruption. Northern European countries turned out to be the happiest countries in the world according to this score. Denmark is the leader of the rating. Norway, Finland, the Netherlands and Switzerland follow it. Sweden, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland are also in the Top 10. The U.S. is ranked 11th. Kazakhstan is in the 59th place and it is ahead of Lithuania (60th), Belorussia (62nd), Estonia (72nd) and Russia (76th). Uzbekistan is ranked 79th, Ukraine is ranked 91st and Latvia is 116th. African countries Togo, Benin, Central African Republic and Sierra Leona turned out to be the unhappiest countries of the world. The total of 156 countries are rated in the report.

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