Rating a country on basis of Happiness

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Gross national Happiness or GNP is the alternative theory of GDP(Gross domestic product) used to measure the amount of good and services produced in a particular country. Unlike Bhutan where GNP is used to measure the happiness of the citizens residing rather than using the parameter of GDP.

The term "Gross National Happiness" was coined in 1979 during an interview by a British journalist for the Financial times at Mumbai airport  when the then King of Bhutan , Jigme singye Wangchuck , said "Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross National Product", expressing a concept that had been developed during the 1970s.


In 2011, The UN general assembly passed Resolution "Happiness: towards a holistic (whole) approach to development" urging member nations to follow the example of Bhutan and measure happiness and well-being and calling happiness a "fundamental human goal."

Irony is that Bhutan in its reports used to reported as the happiest country in the entire world, but when United States released its reports on world happiness it declared Bhutan as one of the least happiest countries😂.

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The Bhutanese democratic government started from 2008. Before then, the government practiced massive cleaning of non-Buddhist population of ethnic Nepalese of Hindu faith in the name of GNH cultural preservation. The NGO Humans rights commission watch dog documented the events.According to Human Rights Watch, "Over 100,000 or 1/6 of the population of Bhutan of Nepalese origin and Hindu faith were expelled from the country because they would not integrate with Bhutan’s Buddhist culture."The Refugee Council of Australia stated that "it is extraordinary and shocking that a nation can get away with expelling one sixth of its people and somehow keep its international reputation largely intact. The Government of Bhutan should be known not for Gross National Happiness but for Gross National Hypocrisy."

WORLD HAPPINESS REPORT

The World Happiness Report is an annual publication of the United states Sustainable Development Solutions Network. It contains articles, and rankings of national Happiness based on respondent ratings of their own lives,which the report also correlates with various life factors.

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The rankings of national happiness are based on a survey. Nationally representative samples of respondents are asked to think of a ladder, with the best possible life for them being a 10, and the worst possible life being a 0. They are then asked to rate their own current lives on that 0 to 10 scale.
 The report correlates the results with various life factors.
Some of the variable on which the people are asked to rate on a range from 0-10

•Social support
•Life expectancy
•Freedom to make choices
•Genorisity
•Perceptions of corruption

Sadly, year after year the ranking of India in the happiness report is constantly receeding.
India slipped from 118th in 2016 to 140th in 2019.

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