Montenegro is positioned in 81st place on the world’s index list on happiness which includes 156 countries, stated the published report by the United Nations (World Happiness Report 2018).
Among ex-Yugoslavia countries, the happiest people are in Slovenia - 51st place, followed by Kosovo (61), Serbia (78), Croatia (82), Macedonia (89) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (93).
Finland is officially in the first place this year and Burundi in the last. Finland is ahead of Norway and Denmark, followed by Iceland, Switzerland, Netherlands, Canada, New Zeeland, Swedish and Australia.
In 2012, the United Nations initiated this report which ranks 156 countries per level of citizens’ happiness and 117 countries per immigrants’ happiness. On the latter list, the happiest immigrants are in Finland while Montenegro is in 67th place.
The report is made by questions from citizens in the ranked countries. Subjects were invited to reply to the questionnaire and rate the level of certain factors in the country they live in, such as empathy, freedom, generosity, honesty and health, from 1 to 10.
Text by Beta, on March 14th 2018,read more at Vijesti
