This seems to be a bullshit study. Almost all the countries are matrix, all have chem trails, most have flouride in water supply, promote death vaccines. This study is based on programmed matrix values of prosperity: Consume, work , obey, conform , get a mortgage, get a credit line, wind down with coctails, consume more useless junk, get an education from the cartel sponsored universities, swallow the red pill! Have a placebo for freedom, while real freedom is never mentioned. . I would rather judge by alternative values....Like how you help and know your neighbors, or when you enter a restaurant it is custom to say hello to every table of people in the restaurant ( rather than walking to your table with your nose up your ass like a rockstar), where you have controll of your own affordable healthcare, where you decide who gets your medical test results, and you decide if and what tests you want to receive. Where a doctors duty is to LISTEN and not dictate.Where your community grows enough food and dairy for the whole community to thrive when the cartels pull the plug on survival. Where no busy body bureaucrats can tell you what and how to build your home or how many other homes you can build on your land. Where land use is friendly to village style development, and multiple families on a large tract of land. Where there are no TSA guns and police state tactics at it's airports and borders. Where travelers are NOT subjected to humiliATION WHEN TRAVELING THRU AN AIRPORT. wHERE ARE THOSE? Where is the list with happiness criteria that are not canned matrix lists. Maybe Bhutan, maybe Bolivia, Ladahk,maybe Uruguay or Ecuador....these are not perfect places in every respect,, but in a list of alternative values, these stand out. Where The people are happy and effective and awake to the cartels agenda! Heck Bolivia kicked out Coca Cola on Dec 21st to make a new era.....,they kicked out the water privatization cartels ( see the film Tambien En Luvia, Even the Rain with Gael Benal Garcia) that makes them pretty cool in my book. Any society where the Indegenous have a voice, is likely high on my list. Ecuador's last coup ( about 8 years ago) was when a million Indegenous beat pots for 24 hours at the presidential Palace, and the President resigned...no shots even fired.

The country of Estonia, provides free internet for all, to their people.

Depending upon what kind of person one is, one may view civilization as people grouping together in order to make life easier for everyone, or one may view civlization as a controllable, exploitable resource -- a free ride on the backs of others, as a master would view his slaves. I believe the better interpretation to be the former.

I notice Canada is at #6 - used to be way happier. Nobody's as happy as we were only 10 yrs ago. When out 2% sucked up all the money, the happy-rating sunk for the 98% whose wages also sunk.

This just proves the axiom that it is not how the people vote that counts. It about who counts the votes. The criteria used to define happiness define the results. As was said long ago, There are lies, damn lies, and statistics.

I totally noticed this .

After reading this article I have nothing to say ....... because I am too depressed to come up with some witty comment that will serve to spur us on to REVOLT against the sad way our country is treating we peons! ................ I guess I'll just have to move to Norway and eat worms :-) .........

Pwr 2 the DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST peons!
GUILLOTINE CAPITALIST CORPORATIONS!

I believe that Capitalism,within reason, and socialism can co-exist together it's called Social Democracy,a form of government many on this list have practiced for decades. First to achieve true Social Democracy the elite must give up their control of government and pay their fare share of taxes. Second that every citizen has the right to a safe place to live,an education,a job,and civil liberties. Third that in order to maintain a Social Democracy Those who have more should give more to insure that every citzens needs are met within reason while educating and training every citizen to become a fully contruibuting member of the Society as a whole! The concept of an endless welfare state isn't practical or logical and will eventually collaspe upon itself, as we here in the US are begining to learn firsthand as sensible limits must be established on welfare programs which now basically have NO limits! Lastly while citizens of a given nation have established rights,immigrants cannot expect to be given the same rights or more then a citizen. In my view while providing help to those from other countries truely in need it should NOT be at the expense of ones own citizens! No civilized nation should have homeless hungry under educated citizens, while it provides for those who are not citizens! Just my view people thrown stones if you want!

Guess what, the one thing you notice, its not any different from what we are used to in the states....just better. You see more Fire Trucks than police in Auckland. The cops don't carry guns. I have not been harassed by a police officer since I left the USA in 2007, this used to be a regular occurrence in FL. Job Security, lots of good paying jobs in my field, healthcare (public and private), and no crime (compared to the USA). 4 weeks vacation is mandatory...plus the holidays. In the end my take home pay is the same as it was in the USA but I get sooo much more.

EXCELLENT POST KENNY!!!

I see both Canada and New Zealand. ☺

If it's so great move over there. Don't try and change the constitution because you're to lazy to move.

They are also at the top of the education and healthcare lists.
WE DONT WAN NONA DAT COMUNISMT STUF

don't try and change the constitution. get your ass out of here and go live there if it's so great

Excellent post, kenny! It's no surprise that these countries are happy. They don't fight wars constantly, they are not owned/run by corporations, they put their tax dollars to the greater good....health care, education, jobs etc. They don't stick thier nose in people's private lives (example...they don't care if a woman is getting an abortion or obtaining birth control) Ever see these countries have people stand outside of a clinic and harrass the women going there? No. They don't let any one religion make any rules for their country, either. The US is acting like a teenager who refuses to grow up. Sad.

You are on a roll posting things that we should be considering daily! Great discussions.

Excellent post as always! Excellent and telling article! So desperately would luv to live in one of those wonderful sane European Social-Democracies!

"Legatum notes "a decline in citizens' perception that working hard gets you ahead."
I actually see this as good news for "merica", the People may finally at long last be starting to wake up to the truth of our increasingly corporate-FASCIST-police-states-of-'merica". Time for a up-rising, time for SERIOUS change!

Voted waaaaaay up, Kenny. 4 of those 10 countries line the Baltic Sea.
For those who can tune into Axes TV ( HD NET ) from their Dish satelite
TV subscription, there's a 12 part documentary series Baltic Coasts which
I recommend you see. JanforGore seemed interested in the Baltic Coast
countries when I told her the essence of this article years ago. My dad's
side kin came from the U.K. of the Netherlands. Beautiful place. I mean to
acquire a dual nationality from them someday far in the future. For now
though, I intend on acquiring a dual nationality from Switzerland. It may take
me all of 15 years to do that living there 180 days a year. But it'll be well
worth it. Vierotchka has offered to be my 1st friend contact there. I lived
in Geneva where the other U.N. Headquarters is in Winter. 1979. No snow
or trash ever on the ground, Sun shining most days. Happy smiling faces.

Very stable country always at sacred Peace because they're neutral.
Axes TV also has a 10 part documentary series entitled the Alps from
Above. It shows what life is like in Europe in the Alpine mountain countries
from Slovenia, Austria where the unemployment rate is 4.5%, to Italy to
Switzerland. They travel to Northern Italy to the provinces of Trentino
& W.Tyrol to show how the Sun shines there over 300 days a year up
there. Then on to Lake la Guarda above the clouds, then onto Zurich.
It's God's country, pure and unspoiled by humans. I never thought I'd
ever see land & water anywhere in this world as respected by white
people as here usualy only Native American Indians would respect it.
But I saw it on the Alps from Above. The Indians have always claimed
that God dwells in the mountain lakes. Having lived near Lake Geneva
where V lives, I don't doubt it. I blogged a news article recently in which
Switzerland was voted THE #1 country in all the world's nations for any
child to be lucky enough to be born a citizen of. I owe that to my heirs.
I also owe it to myself. Male longevity is maximized in the fresh, pure
mountain air, drinking Alpine water, being closer to the Sun on my skin.
AND NO GMOs !!! OR GUN TOTING GANG VIOLENCE !!! Excelsior !

Good one.
let see, a country who cares for you, where you do have your taxes invested in your well being not in wars, a country who are not self & corporate centered, a country respecting you and your families, a country who is protecting you without stalking you.
Yeah, it sounds like a country where the people can leave happily.

When are Americans going to wake up and understand we as Americans spend the majority of our money on defending the rest of the world. Why should these country's benefit from your tax dollars when that money could be spent on education, social needs, and generally take care of our people! Answer: America is actually run by Corporations and their collective Imperialism around the World. If we don't make a quick U-turn soon, this country is dead and the people who comprise most of it will revolt!