Just few days ago I read a new article which explored how happy people are in each country, and ranked them according to their performance in a "Happiness Index." This process is done by United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network. They compile the happiness report annually for 157 countries. According to last year's report, Finland is the happiest country in the world (and also the only country to be in no. 1 place for two years in a row), with Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and the Netherlands holding the next top positions.
The main focus of 2019'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. Four countries have held the top spot in the last four 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.
My idea was to investigate if people in happiest country tend to have a longer life expectancy. I used to think that, only developed countries such as those in Europe or North America would have a long life expectancy, but I was proven wrong after I visualized the data. Very interesting thing that immediately came out was how people in South America and South East Asian section of our world also have a longer life span due to being happy. If you compare countries of these two regions to countries of let's say Asian continent like India or China, you would find that even though the GDP of India and China is immense compare to countries in South America and South East Asia, GDP has nothing to do with a well-being of people.
Here is the visualization comparing happiness to life expectancy. Bigger the plus, higher the life expectancy; similarly, greener the color, happier the public.
My dataset is from Kaggle. Check it out if you have time; it contains happiness indices from year 2015 until 2019.
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