According to the 2015 World Happiness Report, the top 10 most unhappy nations in the world are as follows:
1. Chad
2. Guinea
3. Ivory Coast
4. Burkina Faso
5. Afghanistan
6. Rwanda
7. Benin
8. Syria
9. Burundi
10. Togo
The ten happiest nations are:
1. Switzerland
2. Iceland
3. Denmark
4. Norway
5. Canada
6. Finland
7. Netherlands
8. Sweden
9. New Zealand
10. Australia
According to Daily Mail, "the study uses a range of factors to determine how happy a nation is, ranging from purely domestic perspectives – such as GDP and life expectancy figures – to how its citizens view themselves and their country within the world at large."
Also, the report is the third of its kind, and is edited by a team of noted analysts and academics including American economist Jeffrey Sachs and head of the London School of Economics' 'wellbeing' programme, Richard Laynard.
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