Last week the census came out, begetting the usual flurry of analysis. But I was more intrigued by an Ipsos worldwide survey on happiness, which they've been "tracking" since 2007. So I'll focus on that. To each his own stats.
Of 24 countries, the happiest, by far, were Indonesia (51 per cent), India and Mexico (both 43 per cent). Yet they're much poorer and less developed than sadder, richer places like Canada, the U.S. and the U.K., all in the 20s, or Russia, Hungary and South Korea, in single digits. Why this division? Could it be that:
