http://sg.news.yahoo.com/singapore-ranked-90th-in-latest-happiness-index.html
Are Singaporeans a happy lot? Not quite, if the
latest Happy Planet
Index (HPI) is anything to go
by.
The index measures how governments from around the
world provide long, happy and sustainable lives for their people,
based on three factors: life expectancy, happiness and
environmental sustainability.
The results from the 2012 study, which was released on
Thursday, ranked Singapore a lowly 90th out of 151 countries.
Coming in top for the second year running is Costa Rica, while the
highest-ranked Asian country is Vietnam (second). Hong Kong, in
102th position, is the only Asian nation that is ranked lower than
Singapore.
Singapore scored well in life expectancy and
well-being, but did poorly in environmental sustainability.
Overall, it scored 39.8.
The Lion City performed better in the same study
done in 2009, where it was ranked 49 out of 143
countries, with a score of 48.2.
But its showing this year is an improvement
from 2006, where it came in at 131st position, out
of 178 countries, with a score of just 36.1.
For more information on how the Happy Planet Index
is calculated, go to
http://www.happyplanetindex.org/about/
