Happy Life Years

Happy Life Years, 2005-2014 period

Source: Rank Report Average Happiness, World Database of Happiness, Erasmus University Rotterdam

The measure ‘happy life years’ refers to the amount of happy years one can expect to live within a country. It is composed of both a Life Satisfaction score, as well as a Life Expectancy metric. The data shown is for the period 2005-2014 and was taken from Ruut Veenhoven’s Database of Happiness (Erasmus University, The Netherlands), and the Rank Report Average Happiness.

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Global average trend

Country ranking, 2014