World Happiness Index: Poles less happy than Belarussians

Poland took the 60th spot out of 158 in this year's World Happiness Index, included in the World Happiness Report compiled by the United Nations. Switzerland, Iceland and Denmark were named the happiest nations in the world. When it comes to the countries from the CEE region, the Czech Republic was ranked 31st, Moldova - 52nd, Slovenia -55th, Lithuania - 56th and Belarus - 59th. Lower places went to Estonia (73rd) and Latvia (89th). Such factors as GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom to make life choices, generosity, perceptions of corruption were taken into consideration while estimating the index rate. Poland scored the highest in the first two categories. The report has been published every year since 2012.