According to conclusions of scientists from Britain research center “New Economic Foundation” who, together with the ecological organization “Friends of the Earth”, made “The European Happy Planet Index” rating, Iceland appeared to be the happiest European country.Analysts estimated every European country according to three factors: satisfaction of citizens with their living standards, life expectancy and “environmental pressure”. The last term means the quantity of land necessary for providing the population with food products and neutralization of industrial wastes.The rating including 30 countries of Europe was made up basing on the results of these estimations. As the survey revealed, Scandinavian countries are at the top of the list of the happiest European countries – Iceland is followed by Sweden, Norway and Denmark, they took the second, third and sixth places, accordingly. Switzerland is at the fourth place in the list, in this country there is the highest duration of life in Europe as well – 80.5 years. Estonia is the last at the tail of the rating of the happiest countries of Europe, where, besides the highest points on “environmental pressure”, the level of criminality got the second place among the other countries of the list.Luxemburg, Bulgaria and Greece appeared to… Read full this story
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