The god damn Nordics.
Any time you see any sort of “Where are people happiest?”
rankings, it’s always Scandinavia and Scandinavian adjacent countries at the top.
This is the 8th year in a row Finland has been named the happiest country.
Last year’s survey had the identical top 4 of Finland, Denmark, Iceland, and Sweden.
I’m not sure why they would do it.
Maybe they’re trying to lure people there for Midsommer.
I haven’t thought this theory out in the slightest.
But I’m on to you Nordics.
I’m not entirely sold on your happiness.
Unfortunately, the United States turned in their lowest score in the history of the survey.
Apparently we’re only the 24th happiest country in the world.
Just slightly less happy than the United Arab Emirates.
We got beat out by Dubai.
We’re only the 4th happiest country in North America.
I was surprised to learn how happy the Costa Ricans are.
It’s a beautiful country and all.
I went there once and had a swell time.
But I didn’t necessarily clock Scandinavian levels of joy.
Canada I understand being ranked higher.
All you ever hear about Canadians is how friendly they are.
But Mexico being a full 14 spots higher than us.. that’s interesting.
The flow of traffic over the U.S.-Mexico border kind of implies otherwise.
We gotta get the World Happiness Report in the hands of our boarder patrol.
We should plaster the rankings all along the border fence.
That’ll make people think twice about trying to cross into America illegally.
“Would you look at that…
I thought we had it bad here.
Turns out it’s even less happy on the other side.
Guess I’ll turn around and head to Costa Rica.”
I couldn’t help but notice North Korea didn’t get a happiness score.
I really wish they had.
That giving a bad happiness score would land them in North Korean rat prison.
By a long shot.
Like, it’s not even close.
My god, Afghanistan.
I suppose that’s what you get when you ban half of your population from looking out windows.
That’s how you end up with a non-existent ‘Freedom to Make Life Choices’ bar.
What a fumble by the Taliban to allow the people of Afghanistan to get their hands on this survey.
Big misstep on their part.
Nobody does PR worse than Afghanistan.
They could learn a thing or two from North Korea.
I just found that in 2011, North Korea released their own happiness study.
I can’t find their full rankings,but there are a handful of old articles on it.
Surprisingly, North Korea did not come in first.
They came in second.
The top 5 were:
1.
Venezuela
South Korea was 152nd, and United States was dead last.
