The happiest people in the world live in Nigeria - and the least happy, in Romania
 

A new study of more than 65 countries published in the UK's New Scientist magazine suggests that the happiest people in the world live in Nigeria - and the least happy, in Romania.

People in Latin America, Western Europe and North America are happier than their counterparts in Eastern Europe and Russia.

Nigeria has the highest percentage of happy people followed by Mexico, Venezuela, El Salvador and Puerto Rico, while Russia, Armenia and Romania have the fewest.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3157570.stm

Holy Fuck :Oh crap

Guess those scam emails can keep ones spirits up.

What he said.

hullo to my Nigerian brothers

Last Updated: Thursday, 2 October, 2003

Scams of all descriptions represents 40% of the GDP of the entire country according to the OECD.

Yes, 40% of the ENTIRE gross domestic product.

Suckers born every minute.

:2 cents:

The "happiness factor" is well-known and nothing new and usually based on life expectancy, economics (without the crap) etc. It's fairly predictable, tho a few surprises among them.

Here's the HPI rank order...

Happy Planet Index

Nigeria = scam country

I can't see how "ecological footprint" would factor into one's actual emotional happiness yet they use it as one of their main determining factors.

That index is just a load of hooey made up by some greentards to make people feel bad about being alive. :winkwink:

Very true.. all the romanian webmasters I knew so far is like they are missing something.. like they don't have sense of humour or they look like dead.. I don't know..

in the other corner latin people are always happy and doing jokes..

weird, i wouldnt expect Romania up there.. probably like Kazakstan after that movie :P

Whatta ya expect..? 100% of it's population are vampires by now, you know Dracula, Transylvania and everything..

:winkwink:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LvyrzQldOKE

Those guys sure seem happy. :)

Indeed...

Notice how the poorest countries seem to rank as "happiest"? You're basically asking a bunch of monkeys if they're happy and taking their ignorant yes as some sort of marker?

Little timmy with an IQ of 17 who drools in the corner all day sure looks happy and if he could speak might even say he was happy, but fuck living like that. :P

Again, sorry to come up with a little bit of geography:

a) Kazahstan is a civilized country

b) no parts of "that movie" were ever shot in Kazahstan but actually in Romania, no nation in the world let anyone shit on their heads

c) "the actor" is a british comedian

d) there are really wild countries such as Kyrgistan or Tajikistan out there but cause there is oil flowing and army has there its interests Kazahstan was the ultimate choice as its absolutely harmless

e) Kazach government officially protested against the movie


Does knowing where Arkansas is make me smart in Europe?

it's predicted that only 36 pct. of direct taxes are paid in Czech Rep. :2 cents:

And it is a well known fact that 98% of statistics are lies.

He he

:winkwink::1orglaugh

:2 cents::2 cents:

Exactly, it's baloney.

So Romanians are not just unhappy, they're the smart ones that realise the true face of the world we live in :)

/me starting to feel less suicidal

I always thought it was that 67.8% of all statistics are made up on the spot. :winkwink:

Ya, I can tell the Mexicans are happy, thats why they are lining up to cross into America illegally under the shitiest circumstances possible. I know thats what I do when I'm happy.

Jesus Christ

There are three kinds of commonly recognised untruths:

Lies, damn lies and statistics.
- Mark Twain
:1orglaugh

What I'm saying is it's all a matter of perspective.

I've spent more than 3 years living in Costa Rica, and yes the people do seem pretty happy. Once you introduce them to a more Western lifestyle, though, they _NEVER_ seem to want to go back to the way things were.

Another good example is the poor soul that does everything they're told, goes to church, studies hard and gets a good accounting job. He marries some boring Woman, pumps out a couple of children and spends the next 40+ years paying his mortgage, bowling with the guys from work Friday night and going to church Sunday morning. I bet he thinks he has it made, but holy fuck does that ever sound like a nightmare to those who know better.

Ignorance really is bliss. :2 cents:

Well, that is something that can ANYONE who ever experienced how are those "valuable statistic data collected" confirm...






...that's only 14 pct. of the people though

:winkwink:

amen to ignorance

I am the only one happy romanian and I guess this is happening because of my hair colour :1orglaugh
Loreen are you happy? :upsidedow

lol yeah that illustrates how credible these types of surveys are.

good one :thumbsup

I 100% agree. But don't think you can't be unhappy and also ignorant. You can hate that your neighbour has a better house / wife / salary, etc, you can be miserable 'cause you can't afford shit and you work all day long or everyone around you looks sad and apathetic.

Only 71% of the time though.

:winkwink:

Well I will agree with that, most of the peeps that I have seen here in Romania are depressed about 90% of the time. The service always sucks wherever you go, the people just don't give a shit about life most of the time. With that being said these are people with jobs they don't want and I can bet they are getting like 450 bucks a month salary.

At the same time I am doing my best makin the ladies happy one, sometimes two, at a time.

Nothing like a little American inspiration...Werd.

I think I should be :Oh crap

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Probably the biggest factor in any "happiness" index should be CULTURAL factors as reflected by suicide rates. Some countries are dirt poor but have low suicide rates while a few countries are rich but have high levels of alienation, psychic dissonance, and suicides.

Glad for them... there's so many unhappy wanna be's in this thread it's fucking funny. Money doesn't buy happyness, trust me I know :2 cents:

lol man.. When i read your words it remembers me to Family Man, with Nicolad Cage. :winkwink:

The happiest people on earth have down syndrome. Most people are too intelligent to be happy all the time.

You don't? OK.

You think?? :1orglaugh

Agree - too funny :winkwink:

Believe it or not, the great majority of Mexicans have no desire to leave. Just the poor unhappy ones.

No, welcome to Romania :) :
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a lot of MUGUs in Nigeria.

What a disgusting but accurate post.

When WarChild lives in one of these countries (third on the HPI list) and talks of "little timmy with an IQ of 17" we must have met up with actual monkeys :winkwink:

He obviously forgot there are colleges/universities and a healthcare system on par with the US. The only "timmy's" I ever met were marine biologists, project planners and architects - plus a few in other fields of expertise who have international cred with longer CV's than any GFY member :1orglaugh

Meantime, the local US embassy keeps trying to give away US citizenships for some strange reason - it's obviously more humanitarian "aid" to save "Timmy" :winkwink:

Didn't Ceausescu have that built during his reign of Communism?

Granted, I will give it props as I saw it for the first time last weekend and it was fucking HUGE.

Iasi is a shit hole in most places, I know first hand.

Why am I here when I am from the USA? Simple, programmers, you can't find any better. I live two blocks away from Amazon and work with programmers that turned down bloth Amazon and Microsoft.

With that being said the bitches are HAWT!

WERD

Yes he did, and I really don't like it (the house) :)
But people seem to think it's a masterpiece...