We've covered a few national happiness rankings here (most recently this big United Nations study that had Denmark, Norway, and Switzerland at its happiest places). A new ranking from Spain has some of the same countries at the top--Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, Switzerland, Norway--but it uses very different methods to arrive at its conclusions. Simply: rather than asking people whether they're happy, it looks at their actions--as revealed by whether leave or stay in countries--instead.
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