Lebanon Not so Happy Country in World Happiness Report
Lebanon has ranked 93rd in a list of more than 150 countries in the 2016 World Happiness Report.
Denmark, closely followed by Switzerland, is again the happiest country in the world while crisis-torn Syria and Burundi are the most miserable, said the United Nations, which published the first such study in 2012.
The report seeks to quantify happiness as a means of making societies healthier and more efficient.
The authors said six factors -- GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, social freedom, generosity and absence of corruption -- explain almost three-quarters of the variation across different countries.
The report compared levels of happiness in 2005-2007, before the onset of the global recession, with 2013-2015, the most recent three-year period for which data from a Gallup World Poll is available.
Of the 126 countries for which comparable data was available, 55 had significant increases in happiness and 45 had significant decreases, the report found.
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Source: Agence France Presse, Naharnet
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