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  • Is Denmark the happiest country in the world?
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Happiness trends in 24 countries, 1946-2006

Written by Inglehart, Welzel and Foa

Appendix to publication on hapiness trends.

The following graphs show the trends in happiness levels found in 24 countries, using comparable data from all available surveys for countries having at least xx datapoints from 1946 to 2007. These data are from Ruut Veenhoven’s World Database of Happiness, which include the data from the first four waves of the Values Surveys. These data were downloaded from HYPERLINK "http://worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl/" http://worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl/ and updated to include the results from the 2005-2007 World Values Survey.

Happiness trends in 24 countries, 1946-2006 (101.0 kb)

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