Earlier this month, the United Nations Sustainable Development Network released their latest World Happiness Report, which listed how happy a country's citzens were.
According to the report, the United States ranked 17th on the list, bested by Mexico, Panama, Israel and Canada. European nations like Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Sweden were ranked among the world's happiest countries, according to the survey.
U.N. officials said that purpose of the report -- in part -- is to encourage policymakers in using well-being and happiness as a goal to establish policy. One of the report’s authors, John Helliwell, said that is beginning to happen slowly.
“There are several...
