Ghana has been ranked the 114th happiest country in the world in a new World Happiness report.
This is the third annual World Happiness index produced by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), an initiative under the United Nations.
According to the poll which examined 158 countries, Switzerland was ranked the happiest country in the world followed by Iceland, Denmark, Norway and Canada.
Four African countries, Togo, Burundi, Benin and Rwanda are ranked as the least happy countries with Syria following closely behind.
Ghana placed 114th, just above Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, Ebola ravaged Liberia, Sudan and Haiti and behind Iraq.
The report considers factors such as real GDP per capita, healthy life expectancy, corruption levels and social freedoms.
“Increasingly happiness is considered a proper measure of social progress and goal of public policy,” the report said.
“A rapidly increasing number of national and local governments are using happiness data and research in their search for policies that could enable people to live better lives”.
By: Edwin Kwakofi/citifmonline.com/Ghana