Well According to this report Nepalese are happier than Indians. Nepal ranked 119 of 178 countries list. Indians are 125th. Bangladesh (104), China (82) and Sri Lanka (93) have all scored higher than India.

Indians pretty glum in happiness list
Kounteya Sinha
[ 29 Jul, 2006 0124hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]


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NEW DELHI: Happiness has been measured — and Indians don't come out smiling. In fact, we seem to be more unhappy than most of our neighbours. The only grim satisfaction: Pakistan is even worse off.

According to the first 'World Map of Happiness', India is the 125th happiest country in the world, behind Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

The map is prepared by Adrian White, a British analytic social psychologist from University of Leicester and it rates 178 countries.

Pakistan is 166th while Nepal (119), Bangladesh (104), China (82) and Sri Lanka (93) have all scored higher than India on the study's measure of three major sources of happiness — health, wealth and access to education.

Denmark comes out as the happiest place while Burundi in Africa is shown to be the unhappiest nation.

The study was based on data from individual countries and findings of over 100 studies surveying 80,000 people by UNESCO, CIA, WHO, New Economics Foundation, Veenhoven Database, Latinbarometer, Afrobarometer and UNHDR between 2002 and 2005.

Source : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1822887.cms

yea...the research doesnt count the happiness thru ignorance,,,otherwise Nepal would have beaten other countries in that category.

Moron

nepalese are happier than indians in general.
in india the population of beggars are almost half the nepalse total population. crimes in india is very high. in recent research it was in second in minor crimes. nepalse are generally happier than indians. like nepal india is also fighting its own war against terrorism.

if there was no maoist problem in nepal i am sure it would have been somewhere near 50.

define Happiness???then we will see who is happier than whom???

quite impressive; Bhutan was ranked 8th in the list.

ignorance is not happiness!!

indian ppl expect a lot from their government, which doesnt get fullfilled and they become unhappy.

in other hand. we nepali, already know in advance that it never will be fullfilled..so we dont expect much...thus we're much happier than indians.

Dont Expect, be Happy.

Less expectation = more happiness..that i agree!!