This is another report that gives food for thought.

Everybody perceptively knows that money is the ticket to happiness, and yet there are so many stories about money not buying happiness.  What you persistently read are claims that ( especially if you live in a developing country) is the claim that we may be poor, but we are less stressed and happier than most people in developed countries.  Well, after all, if we compare with the United States ( which most does), we may prove something, because after all, it seems that the United States only ranks 23rd.

However, in this list of 10 countries, we do see that most highly taxed, well developed countries in Europe they say are amongst the happiest people.  Only one developing country in Asia, Bhutan actually landed in the top 10  ( maybe because they are so conscious to be happy — the gauge called National Happiness Index, after all, was coined by their ruler which as I say is the battlecry of ‘we don’t need money to be happy’.

However, you look at it, and however, you believe that money does not buy happiness, it does seem that the lack of money does beget you unhappiness.

Rating Countries for the Happiness Factor

Feeling sad? Researchers at Britain’s University of Leicester reckon you might just be in the wrong country. According to Adrian White, an analytic social psychologist at Leicester who developed the first “World Map of Happiness,” Denmark is the happiest nation in the world.