List of “Happiest Countries in the World”-2018-Full list of UNO

The ‘United Nations Organization’/ UNO has ranked the countries in the world under a list of “The World’s Happiest Countries-2018 ” , based on the following ‘Variables’ /Data:

1. Long GDP per capita: ‘GDP per capita’ is in terms of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) adjusted to constant 2011- international dollars, taken from  the World Development Indicators  (WDI) released by the World Bank in September 2017.

As the GDP data for 2017 are not yet available, the UNO has extended the GDP  time series from 2016 to 2017 using country-specific forecasts of real GDP growth from the OECD Economic  Outlook  and the World Bank’s Global Economic Prospects,  after adjustment for population growth.

The equation has used the natural log of GDP per capita, as  this form fits the data significantly better than GDP per capita.

1. Social support:  Social support is the national average of the binary responses (either 0 or 1) to the Gallup World Poll (GWP) question “If you were in trouble, do you have relatives or friends you can count on to help you whenever you  need them, or not?”

1. Healthy life expectancy at birth:  The time series of healthy life expectancy at birth are constructed based on data from the ‘World Health Organization’ (WHO) and WDI. WHO publishes the data on healthy life expectancy for the year 2012.

The time series of life expectancies, with no adjustment for health, are available in WDI.

The UNO has adopted  the following strategy to construct the  time series of healthy life expectancy  at birth: first the UNO  generated the ratios  of healthy life expectancy to life expectancy in 2012 for countries  with both data.

The UNO then has applied the  country-specific ratios to other years  to generate the healthy life expectancy  data.

1. Freedom to make choices:  Freedom to make life choices is the national average of binary responses to the GWP question “Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with your freedom to choose what you do with your life?”

1. Generosity:  Generosity is the residual of regressing the national average of GWP responses to the question “Have you donated money to a charity in the past month?”

1. Perceptions of corruption:  Perceptions of corruption are the average of binary answers to two GWP questions: “Is corruption widespread throughout the government or not?” and “Is corruption widespread within businesses or not?”

Where data for government corruption  are missing, the perception of business  corruption has been used as the overall  corruption-perception measure.

1. Posititive Affect:  Positive affect is defined as the average of previous-day affect measures for happiness, laughter, and enjoyment for GWP waves 3-7 (years 2008 to 2012, and some in 2013).

Positive Affect  is defined as the  average of laughter and enjoyment for  other waves where the happiness question was not asked.

1. Negative Affect:  Negative affect is defined as the average of previous-day affect measures for worry, sadness, and anger for all waves.

The following is the Full List of Countries under the ‘Ranking of Happiness during the period 2015–2017’ : 

1. Finland
2. Norway
3. Denmark
4. Iceland
5. Switzerland
6. Netherlands
7. Canada
8. New Zealand
9. Sweden
10. Australiasrael

11. Austria
12. Costa Rica
13. Ireland
14. Germany
15. Belgium
16. Luxembourg
17. United States
18. United Kingdom
19. United Arab Emirates

21. Czech Republic
22. Malta
23. France
24. Mexico
25. Chile
26. Taiwan Province of China
27. Panama
28. Brazil
29. Argentina
30. Guatemala

31. Uruguay
32. Qatar
33. Saudi Arabia
34. Singapore
35. Malaysia
36. Spain
37. Colombia
38. Trinidad & Tobago
39. Slovakia
40. El Salvador

41. Nicaragua
42. Poland
43. Bahrain
44. Uzbekistan
45. Kuwait
46. Thailand
47. Italy
48. Ecuador
49. Belize
50. Lithuania

51. Slovenia
52. Romania
53. Latvia
54. Japan
55. Mauritius
56. Jamaica
57. South Korea
58. Northern Cyprus
59. Russia
60. Kazakhstan

61. Cyprus
62. Bolivia
63. Estonia
64. Paraguay
65. Peru
66. Kosovo
67. Moldova
68. Turkmenistan
69. Hungary
70. Libya

71. Philippines
72. Honduras
73. Belarus
74. Turkey
75. Pakistan
76. Hong Kong SAR, China
77. Portugal
78. Serbia
79. Greece
80. Tajikistan

81. Montenegro
82. Croatia
83. Dominican Republic
84. Algeria
85. Morocco
86. China
87. Azerbaijan
88. Lebanon
89. Macedonia
90. Jordan

91. Nigeria
92. Kyrgyzstan
93. Bosnia and Herzegovina
94. Mongolia
95. Vietnam
96. Indonesia
97. Bhutan
98. Somalia
99. Cameroon
100. Bulgaria

101. Nepal
102. Venezuela
103. Gabon
104. Palestinian Territories
105. South Africa
106. Iran
107. Ivory Coast
108. Ghana
109. Senegal
110. Laos

111. Tunisia
112. Albania
113. Sierra Leone
114. Congo (Bazzaville)
115. Bangladesh
116. Sri Lanka
117. Iraq
118. Mali
119. Namibia
120. Cambodia

121. Burkina Faso
122. Egypt
123. Mozambique
124. Kenya
125. Zambia
126. Mauritania
127. Ethiopia
128. Georgia
129. Armenia
130. Myanmar

131. Chad
132. Congo (Kinshasa)
133. India
134. Niger
135. Uganda
136. Benin
137. Sudan
138. Ukraine
139. Togo
140. Guinea

141. Lesotho
142. Angola
143. Madagascar
144. Zimbabwe
145. Afghanistan
146. Botswana
147. Malawi
148. Haiti
149. Liberia
150. Syria

151. Rwanda
152. Yemen
153. Tanzania
154. South Sudan
155. Central African Republic
156. Burundi