Dutch kids are the happiest
Posted by staff / January 25, 2010
According to new research by Unicef Germany, Dutch children have the best lives of all children living in industrialized countries.
German researchers studied children in twenty one industrialized nations on the basis of six criteria: material wealth, health, education, relationships, safety, and their own feelings of luck—and the Netherlands soared to the top of the list. This is the second time Dutch children have been ranked the happiest in Europe.
The top happiest children, by nation, are as follows:
- Netherlands
- Sweden
- Finland
Canada and the U.S. come in at numbers seventeen and twenty one.
(Via Dutch Daily News)
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With Finland in third place, how does that explain the country’s high suicide rate? How come a high number of these happy kids seem to turn into less than happy adults?