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Globe and Scatter Plot
This globe shows the happiness of countries in the world using Gallup World Poll data from 2017. The scatter plot shows the happiness score compared to one of six measured factors – economic production, social support, life expectancy, freedom, absence of corruption, and generosity. The globes linear gradient color bar shows the happiness of each country according to a linear gradient color scheme with red being the least happiness to blue being the overall happiest. Both charts interact with each other. Click or hover on a country and the country happiness data will show on the scatter plot.
Inspiration
- What countries or regions rank the highest in overall happiness and each of the six factors contributing to happiness?
- How did country ranks or scores change between the 2015 and 2016 as well as the 2016 and 2017 reports?
- Did any country experience a significant increase or decrease in happiness?
Data
Link to Kaggle website data used - KAGGLE
Links to all csv data - CSV 2015 CSV 2016 CSV 2017 Predicted Data
Context
The World Happiness Report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness. The first report was published in 2012, the second in 2013, the third in 2015, and the fourth in the 2016 Update. The World Happiness 2017, which ranks 155 countries by their happiness levels, was released at the United Nations at an event celebrating International Day of Happiness on March 20th. The report continues to gain global recognition as governments, organizations and civil society increasingly use happiness indicators to inform their policy-making decisions. Leading experts across fields – economics, psychology, survey analysis, national statistics, health, public policy and more – describe how measurements of well-being can be used effectively to assess the progress of nations. The reports review the state of happiness in the world today and show how the new science of happiness explains personal and national variations in happiness.
Content
The happiness scores and rankings use data from the Gallup World Poll. The scores are based on answers to the main life evaluation question asked in the poll. This question, known as the Cantril ladder, asks respondents to think of a ladder with the best possible life for them being a 10 and the worst possible life being a 0 and to rate their own current lives on that scale. The scores are from nationally representative samples for the years 2013-2016 and use the Gallup weights to make the estimates representative. The columns following the happiness score estimate the extent to which each of six factors – economic production, social support, life expectancy, freedom, absence of corruption, and generosity – contribute to making life evaluations higher in each country than they are in Dystopia, a hypothetical country that has values equal to the world’s lowest national averages for each of the six factors. They have no impact on the total score reported for each country, but they do explain why some countries rank higher than others.
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Conclusion
According to the 2017 data, Norway is the happiest country. Iceland came in at a close second. The least happiest country is the Central African Republic and the second least happy country is Burundi. From 2015 to 2017 Denmark ranked the happiest country while Togo the least happiest combining the average of all three years.
