Top 10 Most Unhappy Nations In The World

According to the 2015 World Happiness Report, the top 10 most unhappy nations in the world are as follows:

1. Chad

2. Guinea

3. Ivory Coast

4. Burkina Faso

5. Afghanistan

6. Rwanda

7. Benin

8. Syria

9. Burundi

10. Togo

The ten happiest nations are:

1. Switzerland  

2. Iceland  

3. Denmark  

4. Norway  

5. Canada  

6. Finland

7. Netherlands

8. Sweden

9. New Zealand

10. Australia

According to Daily Mail, “the study uses a range of factors to determine how happy a nation is, ranging from purely domestic perspectives – such as GDP and life expectancy figures – to how its citizens view themselves and their country within the world at large.”

Also, the report is the third of its kind, and is edited by a team of noted analysts and academics including American economist Jeffrey Sachs and head of theLondon School of Economics‘ ‘wellbeing’ programme, Richard Laynard.

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