'Switzerland is the world's happiest country'

 

Switzerland has the world`s happiest people, according to researchers in a study released on Thursday April 23,2015

In the Annual World Happiness Report, Iceland, Denmark, Norway and Canada followed in the rankings that measured happiness and well-being levels in 158 countries

The study, produced by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), found the most unhappy people lived in Togo, Burundi, Syria, Benin and Rwanda

The study, which was first released in 2012, looked at such factors as healthy life expectancy, the presence of social support systems, freedom to make choices and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, that determine most of the variations in people`s well-being over time and among countries

For the first time, researchers broke down the data by gender, age and region