Peoples of the UAE and Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the happiest

Wealth is not what makes people happy, but the absence of freedom and corruption

Entered only four Arab countries, is the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, in the list of the happiest people in the world, with the rest of the Arab States absent altogether.
Resolution of the Saudis in the center of the 26 peoples' happiest globally, according to a report of the happiness the world of 2012, the list included 50 people, including the peoples of the four Arab countries only, namely, the UAE ranked 17, then Saudi Arabia in the center of the 26, and Kuwait ranked 29, and Qatar in the center of 31, according to the results of the first comprehensive international survey of happiness conducted by the United Nations through the World report happiness which was unveiled during a United Nations conference in New York.
And dissolved in Denmark in the first place, then Finland, Norway, and the Netherlands, and Canada came fifth, occupied the centers of the sixth to tenth, of Switzerland, Sweden, New Zealand, Australia and Ireland, respectively. The United States came in the center where the 11 classification showed that the people of Togo is the highest bidder on the planet, and was preceded by the number of people in the order of sub-Saharan Africa.
And got Denmark, Norway and Finland, the Netherlands, are all located in Northern Europe, on an average of 7.6 on a scale of 0 to 10. The countries least happiness in the world, they are all poor countries are in Africa (Togo, Benin, Central African Republic and Sierra Leone) with the rate did not exceed 3.4.
Other criteria of happiness: Interestingly, the report showed that the wealth is not what makes people happy, but that political freedom and social networks strong and the absence of corruption, are all factors are more important and effective than high-income in explaining differences in happiness and prosperity between countries, which occupies the first rank and the States which lies at the bottom of the order.
Also considered criteria, such as mental and physical health and the presence of a person can be relied upon, as well as job stability and family are essential in raising the level of happiness.
Commenting on the findings of the report, prepared by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research for the United Nations, said Jeffrey Sachs, Director, Earth Institute, who participated in the preparation of the report that "wealth has created its own set of calamities," he said, adding that economic development has led to several problems such as eating disorders, obesity and diabetes and tobacco-related diseases. The academic also said that economic development has led to addiction to television, shopping and gambling. He warned that there are wider social issues linked to economic growth, including the "decline of social trust, and high levels of anxiety associated with fluctuations in the modern globalized economy."
Average income Alferdivkr that statistically the Ministry of Economy and Planning A year ago, reported that the average level of per capita income in Saudi Arabia amounted to 49,000 per annum, with a report by a bank that the rate of per capita income of Saudi Arabia is facing the challenge of population growth large plaguing the country since the mid-eighties of the last century, where the form of large population growth to the Saudis, as well as not to expand the economic base of key elements in the stability of per capita income.
This comes at a time in which the economists of the newspaper "Al-Riyadh" not to look at per capita GDP as an indicator of the level of per capita income, or will directly affect the level of well-being of the individual, but the effect will be indirect through the strengthening of state revenues, which reflected on the the growth of government spending