Unhappiest People Live in Zimbabwe and Ukraine The happiest people live in Malta, the unhappiest in Zimbabwe and Ukraine, a yearly survey of the Dutch professor Ruut Veenhoven, who is internationally known as the "happiness professor", shows. Different groups of people were asked their opinions about living conditions in general and their lives in particular, PRIME-TASS informs. Malta ranks the first with 74% of happy people, followed by Denmark, Austria and Columbia with 73% of people happy with their way of living. Island, Ireland and the Netherlands come next. Canada, Finland and Ghana end the group of ten countries where the happiest persons live. In these countries 69% of the population are satisfied with their lives. Professor Veenhoven came to the conclusion that in the contemporary world money is not one of the decisive factors that make a person happy. Thus, the US ranks the 16th, followed by Guatemala and Uruguay. EU's most powerful countries the UK and Germany are on the 21st and 22nd places. The last on the list are Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Moldova and Ukraine, countries where less than 20% of the people feel happy.
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Professor Veenhoven came to the conclusion that in the contemporary world money is not one of the decisive factors that make a person happy. Thus, the US ranks the 16th, followed by Guatemala and Uruguay. EU's most powerful countries the UK and Germany are on the 21st and 22nd places. Very interesting. I think this reflects an American culture that teaches us that financial success is the key to happiness.