UAE Among the Happiest in the World Map of Happiness

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Adrian White, an analytic social psychologist at the University of Leicester’s School of Psychology, analysed data published by UNESCO, the CIA, the New Economics Foundation, the WHO, the Veenhoven Database, the Latinbarometer, the Afrobarometer, and the UNHDR, to create a global projection of subjective well-being: the first world map of happiness.

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It is worth mentioning that the UAE is among the happiest nations in the world and the happiest among all the Arab countries:

Rank   Nation            SWLS Score
22     UAE               247
30     OMAN              243
31     SAUDI ARABIA      243
33     BAHRAIN           240
38     KUWAIT            240
45     QATAR             233
79     TUNISIA           213
91     YEMEN             207
108    LIBYA             190
113    LEBANON           187
114    MOROCCO           187
128    PALESTINE         180
134    ALGERIA           173
141    JORDAN            170
142    SYRIA             170
150    DJIBOUTI          160
151    EGYPT             160
173    SUDAN             120

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