The most happy countries
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has released its report that measures the happiness of its member countries . The report is titled "How's Life?" and it used surveys to measure eleven specific aspects of life that are believed to contribute to individuals' feelings of overall well-being. Among the factors measured in the surveys were such things as income, jobs, housing, health, clean environment, safe neighborhoods, and work-life balance. While income proved to be an important factor, less obvious aspects of life, including health, safe neighborhoods, and clean environments proved extremely important, also. Here, then, is a countdown of what the OECD found to be the ten happiest countries in the world. 10. Austria 9. United Kingdom 8. China 7. Sweden 6. Norway 5. Netherlands 4. Indonesia 3. Japan 2. Iceland 1. Denmark Interestingly, seven of the ten are European countries and four of th...