This is not going to make the Americans happy ...

@Cierzo do they?

@ozgirl512 Yes.
My point is that measuring happiness is not possible. These statistics are crap.

[@Cierzoi disagree.. Rate how you feel about X from 1 to 10... It's not hard

@ozgirl512 It is. It changes every second. Happiness is a momentary state.

You can measure welfare, which is not totally related to happiness.

@Cierzo I think you may be missing the point.. They're not asking how happy you are.. They're asking how you rate different aspects of living..

@ozgirl512 Ok, it proves they have a good opinion about their country. Not bad, but not really relevant.

@Cierzo it's not about their country, is about they're life and aspirations

@Cierzo compared to which other countries?

@Cierzo
Let's have a look at statistics, shall we?

[quote][big][b]List by the World Health Organization[/b][/big]
[b]Suicides per 100,000 people per year[/b]
Rank / Regions / Both sexes
46 / Sweden* / 12.7
48 / United States** / 12.6
102 / Norway / 9.3
105 / Denmark / 9.1

[i]Source: WHO (updated April 2017)[/i]


[i]* ... According to a 2011 article in The New York Times, "Numerous studies have shown that places like Denmark and Sweden that consistently score high on measures of happiness and life satisfaction also have relatively high suicide rates." Said article also reported, "Some social scientists speculate that the trends are probably unrelated and can be explained by regional factors like dark winters or cultural differences regarding suicide." - Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Sweden[/i]

[i]** ... Approximately one-half of suicides are committed using a firearm, accounting for two-thirds of all firearm deaths.[18] Firearms were used in 56.9% of suicides among males in 2016, making it the most commonly used method by them. - Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_the_United_States[/i][/quote]

[quote][b][big]2015 WHO data for OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries[/big][/b]

Rank / Country / Alcohol consumption in litres
20 / Denmark / 10.2
24 / United States / 9.0
25 / Sweden / 8.7
28 / Norway / 7.0

[i]Source: World Health Organization in 2015[/i]


Be aware it's not a statistic for alcoholism, but merely consumption of alcohol.[/quote]


A few other remarkable statistics now that we look at life quality.

[quote][big][b]Drug use, death rate per 100,000[/b][/big]

Rank / Country / Rate
3 / United States / 6.96
16 / Norway / 3.96
24 / Denmark / 3.61
40 / Sweden / 2.49

[i]Data Source: Published By WHO 2014[/i][/quote]


[quote][b][big]America has six times as many firearm homicides as Canada, and nearly 16 times as many as Germany[/big][/b]



[b][big]America has 4.4 percent of the world’s population, but almost half of the civilian-owned guns around the world[/big][/b]

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@SapphicHeart Whatever. They can keep their bloody equality and their thousands of rapefugees for themselves,and good riddance!

@Cierzo
That was just [b][i]the[/i][/b] comeback of the year. 😂

@Cierzo Do you believe that people are lying when they participate in these studies?

Ch @Cierzo you're not very happy are you? Where do you live?

@Mikemcneil Fortunately, not is Sweden

@SW-User Sure

@Cierzo Sweden seems to have a lot of happy people. I don't think you'd fit in 😉

@Mikemcneil You are right. I am not a progressive idiot.

@Cierzo Why? What would prompt them to lie? 🤔

@Cierzo
Definitely not progressive. I'll give you that much. You just keep coming up with
these great comebacks. It's hilarious. 😂

Possibly a regressive one though lol @Cierzo