Denmark gains world’s happiest
place badge, while Pakistan is happier than India and even Bangladesh,
according to a report that counselled nations irrespective of wealth to grab
inequality and protect the environment.
Pakistan ranks 92
on the directory much better than India at 118 and Bangladesh at 110.
Details of the
report puts India in the group of 10 countries witnessing the largest happiness
declines along with Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Yemen and Botswana.
The report,
prepared by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Earth Institute
at Columbia University, showed Syria, Afghanistan and eight sub-Saharan
countries as the 10 least happy places on earth to live.
The top 10 this
year were Denmark, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, Finland, Canada, Netherlands,
New Zealand, Australia, and Sweden. Denmark was in third place last year,
behind Switzerland and Iceland.
The bottom 10 were
Madagascar, Tanzania, Liberia, Guinea, Rwanda, Benin, Afghanistan, Togo, Syria
and Burundi.
The United States
came in at 13, the United Kingdom at 23, France at 32, and Italy at 50.
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