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Tuesday, 21 March 2017

Egypt ranks 104th on happiness index

We’ve become a much less happy bunch, according to the 2017 World Happiness Report. Egypt is in the 104th spot on the global Ranking of Happiness, right below Mongolia, South Africa, Tunisia, and Palestine. Egypt is also in the bottom quintile in changes in happiness with a significant drop in the perception of happiness from 2005-07 to 2014-16. In an African context, Algeria is the happiest country on the continent, followed by Mauritius, Libya, and Morocco, with Egypt in 9th place. The report notes that the low levels of happiness in the region have not shifted much in 50 fifty years and “low levels of subjective well-being are likely not to be a recent development in Africa.” Overall, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland are the happiest nations in the world, according to the report. The UAE tops the Arab world in 21st place globally. The landing page of the report is here.

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