Nation Report

World Database of Happiness , collection Happiness in Nations

Happiness in Denmark (DK)

Current happiness: place on rank lists of Happiness in nations 2000-2009

Happiness	Average Happiness	Happy Life Years	Inequality of Happiness	Inequality Adjusted Happiness
Possible ranges	0 - 10	0 - 100	0 - 3.5	0 - 100
Highest score	8.5 Costa Rica	66.7 Costa Rica	1.42 Netherlands	73 Denmark
Denmark	8.3	65.0	1.55	73
Lowest score	2.6	12.5	3.19	16

All above happiness variants are based on responses to a survey question like: “Taking all together, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with your life-as-a-whole these days?”. Combined question types 10-step numeral life satisfaction and 11-step numeral life satisfaction.

Trend based on happiness as measured with a survey question like: "How satisfied are you with the life you lead? - very satisfied - fairly satisfied - not very satisfied - not at all satisfied very = 4 ....... not at all = 1". Question type 4-step verbal LifeSatisfaction (code 121C). This measure may differ from the measure used in the above ranking of current happiness.
Other measures of happiness used in this nation may produce a different pattern over time. Check the complete overview of distributional findings on happiness in the general public of Denmark.

Cite as: R. Veenhoven, Happiness in Denmark (DK), World Database of Happiness, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Viewed on 2013-06-20 at http://worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl .