Armenia is 129th by its happiness level
Armenia occupies the 129th place by its happiness level. According to surveys conducted in 156 countries, Finland is now the happiest country. The United Nations annual report "World Happiness Report 2018" is based on the same question addressed to 1000 random people in each country. The question is: Imagine a ranking from zero to ten. The tenth degree is the highest point of life you imagine, zero is the worst scenario you imagine. What do you think where you are now in your country? The highest ladder was mentioned by the Finns this year ahead of the Norwegians. By the way, it is commonplace that the Nordic countries, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Iceland occupy the first place in the ranking. The top ten also include Switzerland, Canada, New Zealand and Austria. The United States is behind the happiest 17 countries. Australia, Israel, Austria, Ireland, Germany, and Belgium are ahead of the United States. Great Britain, United Arab Emirates, Czech Republic, Malta are after the abovementioned countries. The report also provides an explanation of answers, in other words, what factors of evaluating happiness in their countries are. According to the UN report, these factors are the state of the economy, social services, freedoms, generosity and corruption. And what changes have been observed compared to previous years? If this year Armenia ranked 129th out of 156 countries, it was 121th in the previous year, as well as in 2015. In other words, 8 local drops were registered. Armenia is ahead Georgia, when it was 4 rankings behind the latter in the previous years. According to the survey held in 2015 Azerbaijan took the 81st place, in 2016 - 85, and in 2018 - 87. The happiest country of the former Soviet Union is Latvia. From the former Soviet Union countries only Ukraine is behind Armenia. Turkey is in the 74th place, Iran is in the 106th. Russia occupies 59th place by its happiness level. Countries that are behind Armenia by their happiness level are Myanmar, Congo, Uganda, Sudan, Ukraine, Togo, Guinea, Angola, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Syria, Rwanda. Burundu takes the last, 156th place. In 10 countries with the highest rate, immigrants consider themselves the happiest.
