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> Nigerians no longer happy, drop in Global Hapiness Ranking
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> Abuja – Nigeria has been ranked the 103 happiest nation of the world, and 6th in Africa in the World Happiness Report.
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> The World Happiness Report 2016 update, which ranks 157 countries by their happiness levels, was released in Rome on Wednesday, in advance of UN World Happiness Day, March 20th.
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> As indicated by the report, Nigeria dropped from its 78th position in the World and 2nd in Africa in the 2015 happiness ranking.
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> Denmark emerged the world’s happiest place, while Algeria, standing at 38 at the global level, maintains its position as the happiest place in Africa.
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> Mauritius is now the second happiest country in Africa, followed by Libya, Morocco and Tunisia respectively.
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> According to the report, eight sub-Saharan countries were among the 10 least happy places on earth to live.
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> The bottom 10 were; Madagascar, Tanzania, Liberia, Guinea, Rwanda, Benin, Afghanistan, Togo, Syria and Burundi.
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> South Africa and Ghana stood at 116 and 124 respectively on the Global happiness ranking.
> NAN reports that the World Happiness Report, an initiative of the UN, is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness, aimed at influencing government policy.
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> The report reviews the state of happiness in the world and shows how the new science of happiness explains personal and national variations in happiness.
> It reflects a new worldwide demand for more attention to happiness as criteria for government policy.
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> According to the report, leading experts across fields – economics, psychology, survey analysis, national statistics, health, public policy and more – describe how measurements of well-being can be used effectively to assess the progress of nations.
> Healthy years of life expectancy, GDP per capital, social support , perceived absence of corruption in government and business, freedom to make life decisions and generosity are some of the factors the report considers.
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> The first world happiness report was published in support of the April 2, 2012 United Nations (UN) high level meeting on happiness and well-being.
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> The report was prepared by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Earth Institute at Columbia University.
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> Prof. Jeffrey Sachs is the head of the SDSN and special advisor to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. (NAN)