Mexico: The Seventh Happiest Country in the World

Who would have guessed! According to the World Database of Happiness, Mexico is the seventh happiest country in the world.

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According to the results published by this organization responsible for analyzing information to elucidate the perception of people about their quality of life, poverty does not seem to diminish the fact that Mexicans, in general, are happy.

The study puts Costa Rica as the happiest country in the world, followed by Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, Canada, Norway, Mexico, Finland, Sweden, Panama, Luxembourg and Colombia.

The measures of happiness that the World Database of Happiness (WDB, by its initials in English)considers include the types of happiness that affects the different levels of people's lives and the times it lasts.

The methodology of the evaluations of happiness is based on multiple questionnaires, including questions such as: "How do you feel about your life as a whole?".

The options for this question range from one to seven, where one is terrible, two: unhappy, three: dissatisfied, four: confused, five: generally satisfied, six: pleased and seven: thrilled.

Another question is: `In general, how would you feel now?". The possible answers here are three: very happy, two: happy, and one: not too happy.

Also asked about was 'how satisfied are you with the life you lead? ". In this question the responses range from one to four, where one is dissatisfied, two: not very satisfied, three: quite satisfied, and four: very satisfied.

While recognizing that is a subjective analysis itself, the organization states that it has a methodology that links multiple studies, and then synthesize and analyze results.

The World Database of Happiness suggested that the findings of such research may well be `used for the promotion of public policies whose essential interest is to solve the conditions for the citizens happiness with appropriate development opportunities.