Nation Report

World Database of Happiness , collection Happiness in Nations

Happiness in Bulgaria (BG)

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
Bulgaria	4.4	32.0	2.54	33
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: "All things considered, how satisfied are you with your life as-a-whole now? 10 satisfied . . . 1 dissatisfied". Question type 10-step numeral LifeSatisfaction (code 122F). 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 Bulgaria.

Cite as: R. Veenhoven, Happiness in Bulgaria (BG), World Database of Happiness, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Viewed on 2013-05-18 at http://worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl .