Gallup World Poll surveyed thousands of people and then came out with a list of the happiest countries in the world. Kuwait came in at 23rd, the second Arab country on the list, the first being UAE which came 20th. Lebanon came in at 73 while Togo came in last and Denmark first. For the full list click [Here]
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72 replies on “Kuwait 23rd Happiest Country in the World”
if booze was allowed we’ll be number 1 for sure :p
True, dubai is ranked 1st
Dubai is not a country -.-`
i know, but i consider UAE the happiest country, and dubai is the city that have many things goin on, so i guess UAE is ranked 1st in arabian countries while denmark 1st world wide because the services that the country offers from health insurance to salary bonus and many more
That’s weird. I remember reading a survey that Kuwait was included in. There was something about how almost 30% of Kuwaitis interviewed wanted to leave the country. But I don’t think it’s as credible as Gallup. I’ll look for the link and post it.
I’m pretty sure the people who run the Kuwaitism and Kuwait-Unplugged blogs know what I’m talking about, since I remember reading about the survey there.
lol
Load of crumbs, this listing is not right, India and Afghanistan are at a tie at 115…
GUYS the title was altered for some propose. Here is the original title from the source:
Kuwait Ganna Be 23rd Happiest Country in the World
there we go 🙂 how come people say Kuwait is boring, hot, dry, dusty, weird … etc
And the tooth fairy is real
They must have definitely surveyed Kuwaitis in the shopping mall or a bunch of teenagers in their rides.They should have surveyed those asian workers and other people by the not so popular places.
Yes Kuwait has a desert climate hot dusty alcohol free country and the list gos on…., But with a little tweaks on your daily routine, you can avoid things that ruin your day !
it sound ridiculous but i stopped going to avenues from 5 to 10 PM to avoid seeing Hailags and weirdos o m5azaz , Go to GYM , friends gathering at my house having fun ( Movies . games etc ), winter outdoors ( barr ).
1 liter of Vodka wont help when you keep reading Parliament news, getting road rage all the time from tahoe drivers with Mashalla sticker in the back !
wondering what useless list will come out next !
I think someone just ranked the countries at random.
Is Kuwait really getting happier? Is the Gallup World Poll more accurate collection of data then the Happy Planet Index’ (HPI) compiled by the New Economic Foundation (NEF)?
It is interesting that when you read both the comments on 2:48 a.m. and under the Forbes article you quickly discover that people in many of these countries disagree or agree with the findings. Perhaps it all goes back to the Aeschylus quote “Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.”
https://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=NDY4NTcxNTcw has the data from the Happy Planet Index.
We have certain social benifits and welfare to keep us satisfied, but I’m not sure how happy Kuwaitis are with the country’s political corruption and a deficient healthcare system.
impossible!! i know alot of pple not happy in this country :S i think someone paid them to put kuwait on the list lol
i mean whats there to make us happy?
This cant be right Iraq is happier than Egypt
happy in terms of what?
i dont know how they can measure happiness, but Kuwait is DEFINITELY the number one country in the world when it comes to ungrateful expats..cheers
@ Spartan
9a7 lisanik
Seriously?? 23?? This must be a joke. If anything Kuwait shouldn’t even be on the list! Even being the last on the list would still be an overstatement.
Tweez sa7 ibdinik
We are too proud to admit the opposite … but I hope its true
was it happiest or crappiest?
walla ma crap ghairik
Thank god
I’m Kuwaiti and I’m Happy 🙂
I’m Kuwaiti and love it , for all u haters if u don’t like it here gtfo
Seriously gtfo
The happiest countries in the world also have the highest suicide “attempts” in the world? so let them explain that? you can do alot with numbers? you can manipulate anything that uses any kind of numberics! And Iam a kuwaiti and am not happy! “foo my own reasons” like every other person here! Just dont rate me? am not a freaking number!!
And I dont know Mark or his point of view since we still didnt get a post from him yet, but if you live here, then you got to respect it. And am waiting for a post or a reply from Mark on what kind of abusive behavior he allows in here? I am a big “fan”, dont get me wrong, nut there has to be some respect!
So people can’t say they’re not happy here?
@Mark, they can say whatever they want with respect to others,, you wont respect it if some1 calls ur country a piece of crap, but hey thats ur thing, am just a reader with respect to others. Am not here to judge any1 or maybe am the one who’s wrong. But atleast lets have some respect. thats all.
If someone tells me they’re not happy in my country I would ask them why? I would also probably have an idea of what their answer might be, maybe its the high gas prices or the lack of electricity or the terribly slow internet connection, the racism, the traffic etc.. etc.. I am not in denial, I know Lebanon has issues.
You on the other hand just want everyone who isn’t happy to gtfo.
no I didnt say that, iI said respect? thats all. Read…
Sorry you’re right, that was Tecmo.
Anyways, as i said, its ur thing, i respect that. thats all. 🙂
Mark the gtfo comment was from Tecmo, not Ahmed..however i personally agree with Tecmo…if ur unhappy then why stay?? seriously…how constructive is ur bitching and moaning??
yes, people can express their opinions about how unhappy they are here…even tho it makes no sense to me why some people insist on staying here when theyre unhappy…for us kuwaitis we cant go anywhere its our country and we love it regardless…for expats, they can either go back home, or go to another country that caters to their “happy life requirements”..
why must u be impolite when expressing ur opinion? if u wanna call my country “crap” and say hey im simply expressing my opinion, then dont cry over what locals will say in defense of their country…theyre simply expressing their opinions too…or is “im simply expressing my opinion” an exclusive right to expats??
Long live Kuwait///
we have a lot to be thankfull for!!!
Spartan: There are many reasons why people stay in a place in which they’re not happy. It’s like work, a lot of people are not happy with their jobs (ask the billions of low income laborers around the world) but they don’t quit their jobs because they’re unhappy. In the end of the day they want a salary every month.
People can be unhappy living in Kuwait like people can be unhappy living in the US or unhappy living in a jungle or unhappy living on a space station. It’s not being disrespectful it’s human nature.
the grass is always greener on the other side
Mark that actually sums it up…people stay here cuz they wanna make money…well then dont bitch and moan about my country, u have ur greed to blame! whoever stays here to make money can go back to their country and make probably a little bit less…but hey money doesnt bring u happiness..does it?
and i never said being unhappy is disrespectful…but bitching and moaning about it 24/7 and doing so using improper language most of the time IS
We kuwaities have something alot of other citizens “expats” dont understand or have, and thats loyalty to the land we belong too, as i said earlier am not happy in my own country because of the reasons that I have now, maybe later on, some of my reason would change and i would change my thoughts with respect to others feelings. But I will never call a place that makes me a living “crap”. its just childish and inappropriate.
Spartan: I totally disagree with you. People have the right to live and make money in kuwait AND not be happy as well. If you want them to be happy then improve things for them. You can’t force them to be happy.
When people tell me they don’t like Kuwait I try to convince them otherwise. I don’t tell people shut up be happy or if you’re not happy gtfo. I try to show them all the positives in Kuwait and if I don’t end up convincing them they’re lucky to be here I at least help them realize that Kuwait isn’t such a bad place after all…
Ahmed: Just because people have a job and get paid at the end of the month doesn’t mean Kuwait is a perfect place and they should love it. There is more to life than just a paycheck.
Mark “if i want them to be happy” ?? why do u assume i care either way?? this is my country take it or leave it..literally and figuratively..
again: i never said people should be happy by force..but i just said if ur unhappy and u choose to stay u have no one but urself to blame..u choose to stay…KNOWING the conditions of this country…so if u do that, u should slap urself ten times every morning when u wake up…its like what people have been saying in regards to tourism in lebanon..kuwaitis complained about the electricity and water and other stuff…solution is simple: DONT SPEND UR SUMMER IN LEBANON..
i appreciate ur efforts to convince people how lucky they are to be here…but again, why convince them?? is kuwait the last country in the world?? if expats think they can be happy someone else, why dont they just go there?? do expats enjoy being miserable?? or is it the complaining that thrills them??
point being: express ur opinion all u want, just be polite doing it….u dont have to say kuwait is crap to show us how unhappy u r
Mark ofcourse theres more to life than a paycheck…i wish other expats shared ur opinion, we’d have a whole lot less traffic, and people that love to bitch and moan for breakfast
Mark: Kuwait is not a perfect place and I personally would rather live somewhere else for the time being only, all am saying is lets just not use abusive language (period) every1 has his own opinion, you cant change that, i cant change that. And it matters how big the paycheck is. you know that, i know that, every1 who will read that knows that. and money does matter. lets b honest abt that,, money moves people around, but loyalty!! not alot of people have that. Real Kuwaities do.
Mark thanx for answering back all the questions asked and giving me ur opinion, I truly respect that. Thankyou again.
Ahmed no need to thank me, we’re just having a discussion 🙂
This is all weird info.
Its shocking that Denmark is on the top.
Also, countries like India is same as Afghanistan… 😮
And countries like Zimbabwe, Pakistan and Iraq are before India…
Also, Israel, who always cries for terrorism and kills so many (innocent) people is at 8th???????????
But u know the funniest part… Check the Region where New Zealand belongs to. They “think” it belongs to Asia… And the American countries like US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, etc belong to “AmericaS”
Lol..
The whole list seems to be random, you can never judge the whole country being happy or sad, it’s the individual, everyone is unique.
You might have everything to be happy about but you are not and you might not have anything at all to be happy but you are happy.
It’s the individual.
Umm new zealand is in Asia and Canada Mexico and brazil are part of the Americas….
LOL
I smell bullshit.
Plain & Simple:
Just leave if you don’t like Kuwait…
Find a place where you could really feel both “happy” & “grateful”
Question……
HOw the hell do you measure happiness?!
I think One person’s idea of being “happy” is different than another person’s way of being happy.
you go to a mall and take a picture of a crowd. You then count how many people are smiling and how many that aren’t. easy.
“You then count how many people are smiling and how many that aren’t. easy.”
I dont think that will work. I guess the local crime column would be a better indicator
@ Mark: “You then count how many people are smiling and how many that aren’t. easy.”
I think u ganna have a smile after that shot!
There are serious flaws to the arguments being presented in favour of Kuwait. There are a tremendous number of people in Kuwait who DONT have the freedom to leave. They came under one assumption and were lied to and now are held here, passports held, and in slave labour. Locals never stop to think that there’s a REASON behind ppl badmouthing Kuwait all the time…
I do agree its sad that people badmouth Kuwait BUT while slavery and human rights abuses, extreme forms of racism, and torture are still normal out here i think its the kuwaitis that should get over the badmouthing. its such a small thing. S
Rather than defending Kuwait – go out and make the country better. although in my experience, 9 times out of 10 that will never happen here.
@Ahmed, I totally disagree with your comment about Kuwaiti people having something others don’t have, namely “loyalty to the land we belong to”
How can Kuwaitis say they have loyalty to their land when a majority of them disobey the laws of their own land. I’m thinking of the driving, smoking everywhere that it’s forbidden etc. etc. How is that loyalty? Your elected leaders and royal heads of state promote and pass laws that
you mostly ignore!
Anyone who is truly loyal to their country will value and uphold the country’s self-respect and image in the wider world. They will drive their country to be a leader and an example to others. This is always difficult when as citizens you sit by and allow the human rights violations, the environmental pollution, the corruption and the discrimination to happen in your country without taking action.
It’s easy to all sing “We love Kuwait” and spray foam everywhere in February – it’s more difficult to face the truth that nobody will respect your country until you start respecting yourselves.
That said, I really do love Kuwait. I am an expat – a visitor to the place you call home. I think that Kuwait is an amazing country with so much potential. It has offered me financial gains that my own country couldn’t. It has introduced me to great friends from all corners of the earth – including Kuwait 😉
I’m happy in Kuwait, I just fear for it’s future because I doubt the loyalty of it’s citizens to the cause!
As you might have noticed, the survey was based on the following criteria.
Thriving
Struggling
Suffering
Daily Experience
If you look at the number closer, the percentage of struggling in Kuwait is 50%, which is what resulted in the lower ranking, I believe that the pole included expats with marginal income.
Anyways Denmark is number one and I ma happy being a Dane!
I laughed so much at hh’s comment. ‘the grass is always greener on the other side’
I’ve just looked in Dubai… and the grass is dead there too!
The Gallup researchers found evidence of what many have long suspected: money does buy happiness–at least a certain kind of it. In a related report, they studied the reasons why countries with high gross domestic products won out for well-being, and found an association between life satisfaction and income.
Inhabitants of some rich countries are bound to feel happier. But happiness is elusive to define, and money isn’t the only thing that influences it. Harter explains that the more abstract sense of happiness to which wealth contributes has a different effect on one’s life than daily happiness.
“Each of us is two different people. We evaluate our lives periodically; we sit back and reflect and summarize things that have gone on in our lives to date,” Harter says. “Another side is how you experience things daily. Daily experience affects your stress and your psychology. How you evaluate your life affects your decisions. It’s important to think about how you can leverage that well-being.”
I prefer Spike Milligan’s explanation:
“Money can’t buy you happiness, but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery!”
I’m quite amused of the discussion here…I hope everyone tries to be more reasonable and remember this is for discussion purposes only.
Still, you’re doing a good job Mark…keep it up!
Turkmenistan is a dictatorship btw…
(Researchers at the Gallup World Poll went about it by surveying thousands of respondents in 155 countries, between 2005 and 2009, in order to measure two types of well-being.)
After surveying thousands of respondents in 155 countries for like 1460 days and they come out with this lousy result!!
Well and Forbes has published it!
What a waste of time.
i’m kuwaiti and i’m happy because l live in peace,freedom and kuwait give all people in the money i help their
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