We all know how stressful it is to stay in Singapore.
There’s a website that does a study on a global scale the Happiness Index (HPI) of each country, and Singapore is ranked 131st out of 178 countries.
We’re in the ranks among Armenia and Slovakia, quite the developing oppressed countries
HPI = Ecological footprint – Ecological footprint accounting measures the extent to which the ecological demand of human economies stays within or exceeds the capacity of the biosphere to supply goods and services.
Life satisfaction – Satisfaction with life overall, tends to be generally stable since it reflects a summary of ‘judgments about feelings’. Whilst on the individual level, day-to-day changes in happiness are of interest, at a policy level it is overall satisfaction that gives the best indication of how groups of people are faring. If a majority of people in a country report dissatisfaction with their lives, this seems to be a reasonable indication that something is awry, either with government policy, with society, or with both.
Life expectancy – Life expectancy at birth is an estimate based on the prevailing conditions in the country, and is calculated through large-scale data collection of mortality rates at different ages.
Tiny Vanuatu is the happiest country in the world, Vietnam the happiest in Asia while Singapore the unhappiest in Asia. And the secret of the country Vanuatu?
“People are generally happy here because they are very satisfied with very little, This is not a consumer-driven society. Life here is about community and family and goodwill to other people. It’s a place where you don’t worry too much. The only things we fear are cyclones or earthquakes”, said Mr Marke Lowen of Vanuatu Online
Study Link: Click Here
what?!?!!!
i want to compren!!
complain complain complain …
we’re unhappy because everything needs money. money money money. we complain almost everyday about money. so no money = sad. got money = very happy people.
money is the root of everything here
singaporeans – young or old, rich or poor, everyone complains!!! everyday we complain!!
teeshah ur wroong leh..
no money = no honey = no talk – we all sad
got money = more bills, more problems, more sad…
i think we need cash .. plenty of it if u wanna stay in sg to prosper
Hey where’s the full list?
http://www.happyplanetindex.org/list.htm
hmm… i dun have a digicam, or ipod, or motorbike, or car, or gerlfren etc..
but alhamdulillah, i’m grateful, thankful and happy ! :)
you’re one happy dude! keep it up
100% this kind of article won’t get published in Shitty Times of SG :-)
keke .. well we all know its gahmen paper
we unhappy cos we struggle for the things we want.. we have to pay this and that.. what we want also very expensive.. we all want more money.. but sometimes the rich also can be unhappy u know… i sometimes wonder what is it like being rich,will i be happy then?
you don’t see rich ppl blog & complain do you … hehe
true maybe if we have lesser expectations, maybe we’ll be more ‘happier’
And people complain that I like to complain…
See now everyone got more reason to complain..
So maybe by paying 2% more for GST we’ll be happpier? You think so? Well I know a bunch of idiots who’d agree…
I know of some people who can swallow their pride and put on a facade just to wag their tails happily too :-)
Hmm.. Seriusly i think we dun have to be rich to be happy. But den again.. Money does make the world go round.. haiz.. Susah.. Beban dunia.. =(
well thats the popular belief … i’ll ask u again in 5 years time :-)
Our life satisfaction index seems pretty high (higher than France), which means what? People are satisfied with their lives, even though they’re generally unhappy and complain a lot?
Perhaps they are comparing their way of life with Third World countries and therefore felt satisfied with their current lifestyle I guess…
i think the HPI deduct plenty of points from freedom of speech, gahmen run media, etc.
life expectancy is on the rise here, but that doesn’t mean we’ll live longer happier. on another issue, gahman really need to raise the retiring age la. once u hit that, i still think plenty are still fine to work. you cant really depend much on cpf these days, can it sustain into your 80′s lets say. what if there’s a crisis, will it cover it?
i looked on the list… it says australia is 139.. we are more unhappier than most places.. but hey im happy.. and i see many australians happily drinking everyday.. i guess its all a facade.. but seriously speaking.. i did a semester study on something similar to this.. and yes.. it goes to show.. the less we have.. the less we expect.. the less we will be unhappy.. ahahahaha..
So if lesser worldly gains == happier citizens, I suppose the inverse is also true, and it will also put *shame* on the ministers kot ?
yeah i noticed that too .. i would always thought the aussie is more jovial and better off than us here
well maybe the demographics only covers city areas? i don’t quite know
being lesser materialistic living in singapore is quite impossible. unless u stay in the outback, kampong or amazon :-)
Wow! Malaysia is at #44…er…between Barbados & Palestine. Barbados looks quite nice. Palestine is at war. Hmm…
keke yes conflicting … but looks closely at the individual sub HPI values
life satisfaction is far better in Barbados but Palestine makes it up in Ecological footprint
Just realized something – the formula they used to calculate (for happyplanetindex) is thus:
Life satisfaction x Life Expectancy divided by Ecological Footprint
The last bit is important, which means the survey is more about the well being of the individual in context of their country’s ecological well being….rather than just the well being of the individual itself.
So in theory it is still possible someone could be very happy, even though their physical environment is going to the dumps.
However, this method/survey below is probably more accurate, though less scientific…what do you think?
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/lif_hap_net-lifestyle-happiness-net
This statistic is compiled from responses to the survey question: “Taking all things together, would you say you are: very happy, quite happy, not very happy, or not at all happy?”.
interesting study
some of the ‘unhappier’ nation on HPI is quite the inverse on nationmaster’s list. they’re now tops
singapore is not even in the top50, keke
the factors taking into consideration are based on surveys, a study which has low response rates usually. i got study this module before, so i know
this is a sensitive issue, i dun think surveys are best to convey or get feedbacks on this as most of the time is a YES-NO kind of thing
maybe a more well research methods. a series of questions like the HPI. tally that finding against overall value to seek some kind of observations and stats
me is unhappy..
wanna emigrate to batam with me?
maybe you should seek job satisfaction … do something you love and have passion