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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 29, 2006, Winnipeg, Manitoba A2winnipeg free press saturday july 29, 2006 on the map of happiness when it comes to Well being country ranks 10th in world Sheryl Ubelacker t Oronto ? Canada has made the top 10 on a world map of happiness which rates 178 countries ranging from Albania to Zimbabwe on their populations Overall sense of Well being. Ranked 10th in the world Canada scored High on the maps three major measures of happiness ? health wealth and Access to education said one of its creators Adrian White of the University of Leicester in England. White an analytic social psychologist who is working towards his pad believes the map is the first to illustrate Levels of Hap piness and Well being on such a global scale. I Don to know if its been the same in Canada but recently there a been a lot of political interest in looking at happiness As a measure of a country a performance rather than just Gap Gross Domestic product White said from Leicester. He said that in recent years there has been a growing debate particularly in England Over whether countries should focus More on societal happiness than on wealth creation. The underlying Assumption Between that is that the two Arent related. But if you look at the countries that Don to have the finances for health or education for their children there a much lower Levels of satisfaction with when you look at the map it really hits Home that we re actually doing quite Well in the West and its the poorer coun tries that Are deprived of the health care and education that we Topping the happiness map is Denmark a country White described As scoring very High in health wealth and Access to primary and secondary school education. As Well the scandi Navian country enjoys two other measures of Well being used to construct the map it has a relatively Small population which appears to give nations a stronger sense of identity and a greater feeling of interdependence and it has countries with huge populations like China India and rus Sia ? 82nd, 125th and 167th, respectively on the map ? tend to do quite badly White said. And one of the reasons we put that Down to is the collective aesthetically Denmark a geography also has much to offer its citizens ? and the same thing goes for Canada he said. Canada is obviously a country of great natural Beauty and that May one of the reasons that the people of Canada Are Ulrich Schimmack a professor of psychology at the univer sity of Toronto questions whether the country a physical splendour contributes to canadians happiness. But he said Canadas top-10 placement is consistent with other life satisfaction and Well being studies conducted Over the last decade or two. I guess we can feel proud about being a country that does very Well. We can feel Good about that said Schimmack whose areas of research include happiness and Well being. Of course that does to mean that we can to try to do even despite its superpower status and wealth generating Economy the United states ranked 23rd on the happiness scale while the United kingdom was 41st despite having the top rated Access to education in the world. Burundi claims the Bottom spot on the list preceded the democratic Republic of Congo and Zimbabwe ? All decimated poverty and health crises such As his aids. The map was constructed using data from 2002 to 2005 from More than 100 studies involving surveys of 80,000 people in the 178 countries. ? Canadian press the july burst of killer heat Waves around the world can to City specifically blamed on global warming. 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