Indians Miserable on Happiness List

Happiness has been measured and Indians don't come out smiling. In fact, we seem to be more unhappy than most of our neighbours. The only grim satisfaction: Pakistan is even worse off.

According to the first 'World Map of Happiness', India is the 125th happiest country in the world, behind Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

The map is prepared by Adrian White, a British analytic social psychologist from University of Leicester and it rates 178 countries.

Pakistan is 166th while Nepal (119), Bangladesh (104), China (82) and Sri Lanka (93) have all scored higher than India on the study's measure of three major sources of happiness;  health, wealth and access to education.

Denmark comes out as the happiest place while Burundi in Africa is shown to be the unhappiest nation.

The study was based on data from individual countries and findings of over 100 studies surveying 80,000 people by UNESCO, CIA, WHO, New Economics Foundation, Veenhoven Database, Latinbarometer, Afrobarometer and UNHDR between 2002 and 2005.