The World Happiness Report 2016 Update, which ranks 156 countries by their happiness levels, was released in Rome in advance of UN World Happiness Day, March 20th.
This report is an indication of subjective well-being of people and quality of human development in countries researched.
This is important as it enables governments and interest groups such as TheMTAO Inc. utilize the happiness data to push our leaders for improved policies that promotes better living for all, especially the grassroots.
Happiness is considered to be the proper measure of social progress and the goal of public policy
According to the report, Denmark is the happiest nation on earth and this year, for the first time, the World Happiness Report gives a special role to the measurement and consequences of inequality in the distribution of well-being among countries and regions.
Nigeria is ranked 103 out of 156 countries researched.
It has been argued that happiness provides a better indicator of human welfare than do income, poverty, education, health and good government measured separately. In a parallel way, scholars now argue that the inequality of well-being provides a broader measure of inequality. They find that people are happier living in societies where there is less inequality of happiness. They also found that happiness inequality has increased significantly (comparing 2012-2015 to 2005-2011) in most countries, in almost all global regions, and for the population of the world as a whole.
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