In
the last 10 years, Russia is the 20th most improved country in terms of
population satisfaction. With American happiness going down, the two
may soon converge.
Is the world ready for melancholic Americans and smiling Russians?
This article originally appeared at Irrussianality
In
recent posts I have linked to surveys showing that Russians are
increasingly happy. Further evidence for this comes with the publication
of the
2015 World Happiness Report.
According to this, Switzerland is the happiest country in the world,
while most of the top 20 countries are in Western Europe and North
America. Russia is in the middle of the pack, being ranked number 64.
This is not a particularly high ranking, and indicates
that Russians still do not enjoy the same quality of life as people in
the West. However, the situation is getting better. A second table in
the report measures changes in happiness relative to the time period
2005-2007. This places Russia 20th in the world in terms of
improved happiness.
In
the same period, according to the report, many Western states became
substantially less happy, especially Italy and Greece, but also
including the United States of America. Thus, while Russians are still
not on average as happy as Americans, they are, according to this
report, catching up.
http://russia-insider.com/en/yet-more-happiness/6188
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