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For the 2012 ranking, 151 countries were compared, and the best scoring country for the second time in a row was Costa Rica, followed by Vietnam, Colombia, Belize and El Salvador. The lowest ranking countries in 2012 were Botswana, Chad and Qatar. [6] [7] In 2016, out of 140 countries, Costa Rica topped the index for the third time in a row. [8]
This is a list of key international rankings of Costa Rica. Economy ... Happy Planet Index (2.0) New Economics Foundation [7] 2012. 151: 1. 1. Environmental ...
Costa Rica rates 12th on the 2017 Happy Planet Index in the World Happiness Report by the UN; [145] however, the country is said to be the happiest in Latin America. Reasons include the high level of social services, the caring nature of its inhabitants, long life expectancy and relatively low corruption.
Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) Environmental Performance Index (EPI) Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) Environmental Vulnerability Index (EVI) Happy Planet Index (HPI) List of countries by ecological footprint; Sustainable Society Index (SSI) The Global 100 (G100) List of countries by freshwater withdrawal
The index captures the HDI of a country adjusted for ecological and environmental factors like carbon dioxide emissions per person and material footprint. According to the PHDI, "The PHDI discounts the HDI for pressures on the planet to reflect a concern for intergenerational inequality, similar to the inequality-adjusted HDI adjustment which ...
Worldwide levels of happiness as measured by the World Happiness Report (2024) The World Happiness Report is a publication that contains articles and rankings of national happiness, based on respondent ratings of their own lives, [1] which the report also correlates with various (quality of) life factors.
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary index assessing countries on 3 dimensions, health, education and standard of living using life expectancy at birth, expected years of schooling for children and mean years of schooling for adults, and GNI PPP per capita. The final HDI is a value between 0 and 1 with countries grouped into four ...
The Happy Planet Index was used along with data from UNESCO on access to schooling, from the WHO on life expectancy, and from the CIA on GDP per capita to perform a new analysis to come to a unique and novel set of results. [6] Specifically, the extent of correlation between measures of poverty, health and education, and the variable of happiness.