Where to place Russia on the map of happiness?

Briton Adrian White (Adrian G. White), a social psychologist, an analyst at the University of Leicester, created the first world map of happiness. On the world map of happiness dark red denotes the highest level of happiness, orange - medium, light yellow - the lowest. This map Russia won the "honorable" 167 place out of 178 possible. "Happiness" our - very pale and surrounded by orange and red with pleasure neighbors. There are, however, African state of Burundi, bottom of the list and is the most unlucky country. But in some countries of the former USSR happiness somehow more! To assess the development of the country, scientists explore indicators that are easy to imagine and express in figures, for example, income or population growth. And recently added to the overall picture of the figure, which seems, will soon be no less important - happiness. For Russians, the same figure - happiness - has always been especially important! The problem of good and evil, happiness and unhappiness White approach a psychologist Erich Fromm (Erich Fromm). This philosopher was a disciple of Freud, and inherited many of the ideas of his teacher. In particular, Freud spoke of the principal vital forces - Eros (desire for life) and Thanatos (the death of desire), but in theory Fromm considered their analogues - biophilia (love life) and necrophilia (the love of death). One of the interests of White, in particular, to the phenomenon of biophilia on the social level. Working in line with its vision, White set out to determine the level of happiness throughout the world. To find out where and how happy people, he decided to make a world map the distribution of happiness. In his study, he analyzed a huge array of data, hundreds of different studies by UNESCO, the CIA, the World Health Organization and several other large organizations that have investigated a variety of demographic data. All this information is based on sociological studies carried out with 80 thousand respondents from almost all corners of the world. As a result of White was a list in which each of the 178 countries whose data were studied, was assigned a certain coefficient of happiness. Lucky country was as follows: 1. Denmark 2. Switzerland 3. Austria 4. Iceland 5. Bahamas 6. Finland 7. Sweden 8. Bhutan 9. Brunei 10. Canada ... 23. U.S. ... 35. Germany ... 41. Kingdom ... 58. Israel ... 62. France ... 65. Kyrgyzstan ... 80. Uzbekistan ... 82. China ... 90. Japan ... 94. Tajikistan ... 101. Kazakhstan ... 125. India ... 139. Estonia ... 144. Azerbaijan ... 154. Latvia 155. Lithuania ... 167. Russia ... 169. Georgia 170. Belarus 171. Turkmenistan 172. Armenia ... 174. Ukraine 175. Moldova 176. Congo 177. Zimbabwe 178. Burundi Incidentally, according to other sources - from an independent company, New Economics Foundation, which some disagree with the results of White's, that is still worse: Russia "fortunately" takes place 172 of 178 possible. These data White could see some trends. For example, he recalled the widespread proposition that capitalism makes people unhappy. However, if people living in countries with good health, with a large GDP per capita, and access to learning, were asked whether they are happy, then in such countries often sounded a positive response. White surprised extremely low results for Asia: China won 82 seats, Japan - 90, India - 125. But many researchers had assumed that the high team spirit in these countries must be a reason for feeling good welfare population. The scientist also said that happiness is also lacking in countries with large populations, such as China, India and, again, Russia. Further more detailed statistical analysis of results showed that the level of happiness in any country is closely linked, especially with the development of health, as well as income and access to education. Of course, allegations of a subjective evaluation of people their happiness can hardly be called accurate, however, measurements showed high reliability of the information. At the same time, if this study and is not ideal, it is good enough, and so far the only site of its kind. But it's hardly a long study will be unique. The researchers argue that there should be regular measurement of happiness, which can show changes of the subjective values depending on the different events occurring in a single country or worldwide. Moreover, according to White, the British politicians also became interested in the problem of happiness in society, especially its relationship with the level of prosperity of citizens.