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An article in Inside Costa Rica says Costa Rica citizens enjoy the best quality of life of the 148 countries ranked.
Costa Ricans Have Most "Happy Years" Of Life
An update of the World Database of Happiness calculates Costa Rica is at the top of the list for quality of life in 148 countries, Dutch researchers say.
Researchers at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam in the Netherlands developed the World Database of Happiness, which combines life assessment averages and life expectancy averages. It is an estimate of how long and happy the average citizen will live in that nation.
The latest "happy years" ranking includes 148 countries and covers more than 95 percent of the world population.
Costa Rica tops the list in the class, with an average of 66.7 happy years of life, followed by Iceland with 66.4 years and Denmark 65 happy years.
Canada ranks fifth at 64 years, while he United States is listed at 58 years.
The list also lists the life expectancy for each country.
In Costa Rica the life expectancy is 78.5 years with an 8.5 (out of 10) satisfaction with life. The US and Canada life expectancy is 77.9 and 80.3 and satisfaction with life rate of 7.4 and 8, respectively.
In Central America, Nicaraguans can expect 51 happy years, with a life expectancy of 71.2 and satisfaction with life rate of 7.1; Guatemala 49.8 happy years, a life expectancy of 69.7 and satisfaction with life rate of 7.2: Honduras 48.7 happy years, a life expectancy of 69.4 and 7 and El Salvador, 47.6 happy years, a life expectancy of 71.3 and satisfaction with life rate of 6.7. Panamanians 58.5 happy years, a life expectancy of 75.1 and satisfaction with life rate of 7.8.
Colombians can expect 55.8 happy years, a life expectancy of 72.3 and satisfaction with life rate of 7.7, while their neighbours in Venezuela can expect only 53 happy years, a life expectancy of 73.2 and satisfaction with life rate of 7.2. In Brazil the happy years are 53.6, a life expectancy of 71.7, and satisfaction with life rate of 7.5; Bolivia 42.1 happy years, a life expectancy of 64.7 and satisfaction with life rate of 6.5; Peru 44 happy years, a life expectancy of 70.7 and satisfaction with life rate of 6.3; and in Argentina they can expect 54.9 happy years, a life expectancy of 74.8 and satisfaction with life rate of 7.3
The World Database of Happiness is an ongoing register of scientific research on the subjective enjoyment of life It brings together findings that are scattered throughout many studies and provides a basis for synthetic work.
The findings are scheduled to be presented at the III Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development World Forum in Busan, South Korea.
The following link will take you to the full list of how long and happy live in countries around the world.
http://www.worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur ... 009-2d.htm_________________
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