摘自：國際在線
LONDON （Reuters） - If you're looking for happiness， go and live in Denmark.
如果妳在尋找幸福，就去丹麥生活吧。
It is the happiest country in the world while Burundi in Africa is the most unhappy， according to a report by a British scientist released Friday.
英國壹位科學家上周五（7月28日）公布的壹份研究報告表明，丹麥是世界上最幸福的國家，而非洲的布隆迪則是最不幸福的國家。
Adrian White， an analytical social psychologist at the University of Leicester in central England， based his study on data from 178 countries and 100 global studies from the likes of the United Nations and the World Health Organization.
艾德裏安。懷特是來自英格蘭中部地區的萊斯特大學的壹名社會分析心裏學家。他根據178個國家的調查數據和來自聯合國和世界衛生組織等100份全球研究資料對人們生活得幸福與否作了相關研究。
"We're looking much more at whether you are satisfied with your life in general，" White told Reuters. "Whether you are satisfied with your situation and environment."The main factors that affected happiness were health provision， wealth and education， according to White who said his research had produced the "first world map of happiness."
懷特說：“我們主要著眼於妳是否對妳的生活大致滿意，是否對妳的生活情況和生活環境滿意。”他認為，影響幸福的主要因素包括健康、財富和受教育的程度。懷特表示，他的研究劃定出了“首份世界幸福地圖”。
Following behind Denmark came Switzerland， Austria， Iceland and the Bahamas.At the bottom came the Democratic Republic of Congo， Zimbabwe and Burundi. The United States came in at 23rd， Britain was in 41st place， Germany 35th and France 62nd. Countries involved in conflicts， such as Iraq， were not included.
排在丹麥之後的幸福國家是瑞士、奧地利、冰島和巴哈馬群島。而排在“幸福名單”末尾的國家則是剛果民主***和國、津巴布韋和布隆迪。美國處於第23位，英國排在第41位，德國在第35位，法國位居第62位。像伊拉克那樣涉及戰亂沖突的國家則沒有進入此次的幸福國家評選之中。
"Smaller countries tend to be a little happier because there is a stronger sense of collectivism and then you also have the aesthetic qualities of a country，" White said.
懷特指出：“小國家的人民有更加幸福的趨勢，因為這些國家的人有更強烈的集體主義感，以至於他們會註意到這個國家的優勢。”
"We were surprised to see countries in Asia scoring so low， with China 82nd， Japan 90th， and India 125th. These are countries that are thought as having a strong sense of collective identity which other researchers have associated with well-being."
“我們驚訝地發現，亞洲國家的排名很低，中國排在第82位、日本第90位、印度在第125位。這些國家被認為擁有強烈的集體感，而壹些研究者認為這壹特征與幸福有關。”
He admitted collecting data based on well-being was not an exact science， but said the measures used were very reliable in predicting health and welfare outcomes.
懷特承認，收集有關幸福的數據並不是壹門確切的科學，但他指出，測量幸福的方式主要依賴於人們可預知的健康程度和財富收入。