Table: The World's Happiest Countries

本次福布斯的全球最幸福国家排行是基于Gallup World Poll组织对全球155个国家、上千名被访者的调查产生的。这项调查共持续四年,询问了包括“每日的感受”、“是否觉得被尊重”等问题。最终得出的结论中包括四个指数:percent thriving(幸福者比例)、percent struggling(奋争者比例)、percent suffering(不幸者比例)、daily experience(日常经历)。排名是根据幸福者比例做出的,其余指数只是参考。

Quantifying happiness isn't an easy task. Researchers at the Gallup World Poll went about it by surveying thousands of respondents in 155 countries, between 2005 and 2009, in order to measure two types of well-being.

First they asked subjects to reflect on their overall satisfaction with their lives, and ranked their answers using a "life evaluation" score from 1 to 10. Then they asked questions about how each subject had felt the previous day. Those answers allowed researchers to score their "daily experiences"--things like whether they felt well-rested, respected, free of pain and intellectually engaged. Subjects that reported high scores were considered "thriving." The percentage of thriving individuals in each country determined our rankings.

以下是排行前十的国家,有并列产生。毫无悬念的,前十名当中欧洲国家占了一半,其余有两个美洲国家、三个亚洲国家(此排行将澳洲也并入亚洲范围)。从上到下分别是:丹麦、芬兰、挪威、瑞典、荷兰、哥斯达黎加、新西兰、加拿大、以色列和澳大利亚。

除了哥斯达黎加和以色列之外,其他国家幸福指数高都在意料之中。

中国和肯尼亚、加纳一起并列排在第125位。

其余主要国家的排行:

巴西:第12位;
美国:第14位;
英国:第17位;
德国:第33位;
法国:第44位;
韩国:第56位;
日本:第81位;
印度:第115位。

注:本排行并不能完整反映真实的各国幸福指数,调查有限、仅供参考。