“People in Fiji rate themselves as the happiest in the world”, says Caz Tebbutt, Managing Director of the Tebbutt Research group.

A new global poll on happiness conducted on the eve of the New Year shows that Fijians are the happiest in the world. Fiji tops the list of 58 countries surveyed in the WIN-Gallup International Global Barometer of Happiness. Tebbutt Research conducted the Fiji component of the survey.

According to the global poll, when asked, “So far as you are concerned, do you personally feel happy, unhappy or neither happy nor un-happy about your life?” 53% of the world sample said they feel “happy” while 13% said they feel “unhappy”. Another 31% said they were “neither happy nor unhappy” while 3% were unsure.

In Fiji 89% of the people surveyed said they were “happy”, 4% said they were “unhappy” and 7% were “neither happy nor unhappy”.

The WIN-Gallup International Global Barometer of Happiness produces a “Net Happiness” score or index that is calculated by subtracting the percentage that are “unhappy” from the percentage that are “happy”. For Fiji, the Net Happiness index stands at 85 (with 89% happy less 4% unhappy). The world index is 40, showing that the “happy” outnumber the “unhappy” by 40% points.

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