Why Finland and Denmark are the happiest countries in the world?【vol.2】
Reporter:
The anual happiness ranking began in 2021, but we can trace measuring happiness back to 1971.
Jeffery:
It came in the inspiration of the country of Bhutan, a country in the Himalayas that many people know for its innovation of attempiting to measure gross national happiness.
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Reporter:
Globally, a standard for measuring success and productivity is gross national product. Bhutan has the bright idea of trying to measure happiness Measuring happiness is a fairly complicated business.
First of all, we need to understand what happiness means.
Jeffery:
It means the satisfaction with the way one’s life is going. It’s not primarily a measure of how one laughed or smiled yesterday, but how one feels about the course of one’s life.