Issue 03 Preaching and the Holy SpiritBlog | THE HAPPIEST COUNTRY
THE HAPPIEST COUNTRY
Author: Andy PeckPost Date: 09.06.15
Each fortnight on our website, preachweb.org, Martin Saunders considers how to tackle current affairs from the pulpit. Here, in a post from May 2015, he looks at the results of the UN’s latest World Happiness Index.
What’s the story?
Switzerland has topped the UN’s World Happiness Index, beating off competition from Iceland, Denmark and Norway. Togo was named as the least happy place to live.
What’s happening?
The World Happiness Index is a United Nations initiative that takes data from the Gallup World Poll and ranks countries on the basis of variables such as life expectancy, freedom, and corruption. The idea is that these factors are the biggest indicators of whether a society produces ‘happy’ citizens.
Switzerland topped the third study, closely followed by Iceland, with Denmark – who topped the poll in 2013 – pushed into third place. At the other end of the 158-nation survey were the African nations of Togo and Burundi,
