At the bottom of the world is Central Africa, with a score of only 2.69, followed by African countries such as Burundi and Tanzania, and Syria, which is in a state of war, ranks fourth from the bottom. China people's happiness index is 5.273, ranking 79th, at a medium level. From the results, the happiness index of developed countries is generally much higher than that of developing countries, but this does not mean that being rich must be happy.
According to China's experience for many years, the most important factors affecting happiness index are unemployment rate and sense of security, not gdp growth. In the past 20 years, China's economy has developed rapidly, and it has become a huge economy after the United States. However, China's happiness index has not soared with it, but has been hovering at a medium level. Soaring house prices, rising prices and environmental pollution all affect the happiness of China people. In the survey, we found that as far as the sources of happiness are concerned, health accounts for 26.5%, family accounts for 24.9%, work 1 1.7%, interpersonal relationship 1 1.6%, income 9.8% and freedom 7.3%. From these happiness source data, it can be seen that health and affection are very important to improve people's happiness index. And income only accounts for about 10% of the weight of happiness influencing factors. This shows that in a single wealth comparison, people think that income is very important, but when people think about the influencing factors of happiness in an all-round way, they will feel that health and affection are more important.
Disease and work stress are the main sources of people's pain in current society. Economic development is a quantifiable indicator. People can get some happiness from the growth of wealth, but there must be other ways to get it back. For example, in 2008, house prices rose rapidly. Although people's income has increased a lot, it still can't keep up with the rate of rising house prices. Now that the whole people are concerned about housing prices, it is difficult to talk about the improvement of happiness index. The report also specifically analyzes the situation in China. It said that in the past 40 years, China people's material level, quality of life and life expectancy have improved significantly, but in terms of subjective well-being, people in China today are not as happy as people in China 25 years ago. For example, the United States, which is also a developed country, ranks lower in the survey of happiness index. Some scholars have analyzed that the per capita GNP in the United States must triple to offset the impact of other factors on the happiness index.
According to the situation in the United States, I don't know how much money China needs to achieve its due level of happiness. Happiness is the ultimate goal of human life and economic development, and it is also the highest index to measure the success of economic development. The higher the happiness index, the higher people yearn for it. Switzerland, Denmark, Holland and so on are all places that people yearn for very much. The people's happiness index there is also the world's leading. Most of these countries pursue a warm and comfortable lifestyle, which is open, inclusive, honest and balanced, and the gap between the rich and the poor is small. These are the basic reasons for their high happiness index.