South Korea hovers around average for happiness.  And, of course,
the list is basically a group of WASP countries. I think Koreans make
life shitty for themselves.  If you were to transplant the population
of Finland to Korea and the population of Korea to Finland, I am
pretty sure Finland would would suddenly plummet and Korea
would be near the top.  Korea has stupid policies created by
out-of-touch old men.

Interestingly, some very poor countries (ex. The Philippines) with
seemingly huge problems are happier than Korea.


1 Finland
2 Denmark
3 Switzerland
4 Iceland
5 Norway
6 Netherlands
7 Sweden
8 New Zealand
9 Austria
10 Luxembourg
11Canada
12 Australia
13 United Kingdom
14 Israel
15 Costa Rica
16 Ireland
17 Germany
18 United States
19 Czech Republic
20 Belgium

61 South Korea


https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-countries-in-the-world

How did China make the top 20? The communist government submitted altered (or otherwise inaccurate) data?

Why wouldn’t it?

Gender imbalance. More men born than women. (A similar thing happened in India, South Korea, and Vietnam.)

Horribly polluted air. Worse than Vietnam and Korea.

A dictatorial government which censors the Internet, making it slow. Chinese people dream of moving to the US, even the rich ones, because they know their wealth could be seized.

Wow, racism, prejudice and bigotry seem to have reached new levels in 2021.

What's the first thing a high-ranking CCP does? Buys property in a Western country and sends his family to live there and set things up for him to jump ship. What's wrong with China?
Who's risking their lives and thinking up of every scheme in the book to get a US citizenship?
Chinese people would love a US citizenship as would any other person from a 3rd world country, myself included.

China's rankings are about as accurate as any other data coming out of that CCP rathole.

Be a contrarian all you want, facts don't care.

Biden's president. Trump's approval rating was never that high. He lost the popular vote twice. The people who stormed the capital were arrested and put in jail. And they are a small minority of Americans. What did the U.S. do lately? Invented a vaccine that put an end to the pandemic. Suck on that, America hater.

Police don’t kill citizens with impunity. If they kill a citizen wrongly they are thrown in jail and the victim’s family gets millions. Doesn’t happen often.

Not many are incarcerated. Way less than 1% and falling. Keeping psychopaths out of the general population keeps the public safe.

The US has a low crime rate which is dropping.

You think it’s a horrible place because of some uncommon things happening. (Which is unavoidable with such a large population.)

But most people in the USA are safe and happy. Which is why it got a happiness ranking above your beloved UK and Canada. (Which also ranked high.)

No universal healthcare means shorter wait times, which means higher survival rates. The way to get healthcare is to be covered by one’s employer which happens when one gets a decent job. Or be an entrepreneur and buy your own coverage. This American healthcare is superior to universal healthcare in commonwealth countries. (For the unsuccessful in life, universal health coverage is a better deal I guess ... but poor people in America get free health coverage on account of being poor, so I dunno.)

Breast cancer survival:
USA: 88.60% Canada: 85.80% UK: 81.10%
Stomach cancer survival:
USA: 29.10% Canada: 24.80% UK: 18.50%
Lung cancer survival:
USA: 18.70% Canada: 17.30% UK: 9.60%
Prostate cancer survival:
USA: 97.20% Canada: 91.70% UK: 83.20%
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXJgkvF19QA

A country that hunts down and exterminates
Asians.

When did that happen? Prostitutes died and some happened to be Asian. A rare, uncommon event. Overall, Asians in the USA are very successful. Earning more than others and highly unlikely to ever be incarcerated. Why? Harder working and less likely to commit crimes.

My only worry is the ridiculous healthcare, but you know what, it's still worth it.

Did you know 92% of Americans have health insurance coverage?

With hard work and dedication, you too can break into that 92%.

Rich people from around the world fly to the United States to be treated there. Why? Best medical technology / best hospitals / best doctors / best treatment money can buy. That’s what the US has that other countries don’t.