Kuwait is tied in 11th place in the latest report from Gallup on the happiest countries in the world. I guess the Happy Kuwait video did Kuwait a lot of good.
Survey Methods
Results are based on telephone and face-to-face interviews with approximately 1,000 adults in each country, aged 15 and older, conducted in 2013 in 138 countries and areas. For results based on the total global sample, the margin of sampling error is less than ±1 percentage point at the 95% confidence level. For results based on country-level samples, the margin of error ranges from a low of ±2.1 to a high of ±5.3. The margin of error reflects the influence of data weighting. In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.
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Thanks BeeJay
33 replies on “Kuwait 11th Happiest Country in the World”
Not for expats though.
+1
+ 5 gazillion
If you don’t like Kuwait, LEAVE!
The majority of expats are here to make money and as long as they make more money than they do at home that’s all they’re looking for.
Well, that’s not true. As I’m looking forward to a lot of other stuff aside from money.
While I do agree with you to a certain extant that the many of the Expats are here to make money, I am glad that I am not one of them. My first job in Kuwait paid me 120 KD a month and I was happy to have it. I know that other US Citizens would never take a job like that but I personally came here for my religion. There are many of us who came here for our religion. That said I hate to agree with you that many Expats come here only for money. As for the expats not being happy here… Lets be realistic. many expats raise their families here and there are even for or five generations here. If you are will to leave you homeland to raise your family somewhere else that means you have to have some kind of happiness there. As for an US Citizen like myself, well, the Medical services are basically free, I don’t get taxed, I don’t have to serve in the Armed Forces (even though I would not mind being a Kuwaiti soldier since they are one of the highest paid in the world. American soldiers don’t even make half their salary.) and the petrol is cheaper than water. I mean other than being an actual citizen of Kuwait us Expats have it easy here. At least compared to other countries.
<3 glad to have you in your second country.
That’s sweet, thank you
Well, I think the survey did include expats.
i highly doubt they just asked Kuwaitis.
so who makes this the country the what it in. the uncontrollable 3rd world expat population
The survey asked the expats, they said they’re happy
11th happiest from bottom or top?
top
The list doesn’t show Kuwait in 11th place.
Yeah was gonna say it’s 30-something
It’s 11, count the position based on the score, they are tied with a few other countries with the same score.
There are 36 countries with higher score, i.e. “happier” than Kuwait
There aren’t, check the scores, there is more than one country with the same score.
Exactly. Kuwait had got the 11th highest score in rating. There are 36 countries who got more points than Kuwait, thus they are put above Kuwait in this list.
I personally think the result is reasonable, but the title of this post seems to be misleading.
I see where you’re coming from, but usually when two people/things are tied with the same score, you still count the places as if they had different scores. So Paraguay with 87 are first, panama with 86 are second, the next three countries with 83 are third. The next on the list however wouldn’t be fourth since there are more than 3 countries above it. It would be 6th.
true, a more accurate title should be something like kuwait scores 11th highest score
And Mark why such a small thank you note for BeeJay.
Give him some more credit lol ;p
Lol right
To raise a family in a safe pleasurable place nothing can come even close to Kuwait, I travel every month for different reasons, so I know what I’m talking about. Take away June July and August (hell on Earth months) the rest of the year is a mini paradise for me at least.
Kuwait, Morocco and south Africa are the same happiness but not 11th but 38th and less than Bahrain and the UAE
Of course it is where else can you drive in the emergency lane hit people and get away with it.
I find it hard to believe that countries like Bahrain and Mali where there has been a lot of strife are coming up on top of this list. I suppose the French are fine – give them a glass or two of Bordeaux and they’re happy!
Nice attempt,although I did not believe it
Regardless of what Kuwait’s score was, I think we need to take the entire study with a grain of salt. If you look at what the respondents were asked, you will realize that the scores are not reflective of whether a country is happy or not, or whether a nation is positive or not for that matter. “Gallup measured each of these positive emotions in 138 countries in 2013 by asking people whether they experienced them the previous day. Gallup compiles the “yes” results into a Positive Experience Index score for each country.” So the ENTIRE study is based on assessing whether a person experienced “lots of enjoyment, laughing or smiling a lot, feeling well-rested, and being treated with respect” only ONE day before he/she were contacted by Gallup. Therefore having 7 in 10 people say that they have experienced any of the above on a specific day, is not equivalent to happiness, it only means you happen to have had a good day right before they picked up the phone and called you. Even the most miserable among us would have smiled at least once a day! How the data is collected and interpreted makes a world of difference. I think this is a better index of a nation’s quality of life. It’s interactive and more accurate https://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/
Are they serious ? Kuwait’s wealth and resources are treated like free lunch buffet and then going down the toilet. how are kuwaitis happy. Must be the expats who were being interviewed the most.
I can think of a hundred other places I would rather be happy in.
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