Be happy, live and/or visit Bolivia!!
Madeline Stone writes in The Business Insider:
The Happiest Countries In The World, According To Instagram
Jetpac, a startup known for their social travel guide app, has analyzed more than 150 million Instagram posts in 6,000 worldwide cities to come up with a ranking of the happiest countries on the globe.
Jetpac compiled the rankings by coming up with what they call a “smile score” for each country, a measure determined by analyzing how often residents were smiling in Instagram photos. The bigger the smile, the higher the smile score.
A country’s overall smile score was determined by averaging the scores each photo’s smile received.
Latin American countries dominated the list, with the Philippines as the only top-ten country outside of the Americas. Brazil came in first with a smile score of 60.8 out of a possible 100.
The release of Jetpac’s data coincides with the UN’s International Day of Happiness, which is being celebrated today. [03/20/14]
Here’s the complete ranking [top 122 countries]. Scores are out of 100 points.
1. Brazil 60.8
2. Nicaragua 59.4
3. Colombia 49.8
4. Bolivia 48.1
5. Costa Rica 47.4
6. Honduras 47.2
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116. China 12.4
117. Bahrain 11.7
118. Iran 11.7
119. Saudi Arabia 11.6
120. Maldives 9.8
121. Vatican City 9.8
122. Kuwait 9.7
123. South Korea 9.5
124. Japan 4.1
http://www.businessinsider.com/happiest-countries-in-the-world-2014-3
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https://www.jetpac.com/blog/post/80147853816/the-international-day-of-happiness#.Uzqp6Ny27wJ
