The next is a part of the Gallup World Feelings 2022 report, which is “based mostly on almost 127,000 interviews with adults in 122 nations and areas in 2021 and early 2022.”

Gallup’s accompanying article, “World Research Reveals Most Staff Get pleasure from What They Do”, says:

Most of the nations the place probably the most employees take pleasure in what they do — with at the least 94% of individuals saying they really feel this manner about their jobs — even have among the highest scores on Gallup’s Constructive Experiences Index. For instance, El Salvador, the place 97% of employees declare to take pleasure in their work, additionally ranks within the prime 5 nations with the very best constructive each day experiences.

Though at the least half of the employees within the nations that rank towards the underside of the worldwide record do declare to take pleasure in what they do, at the least one in three employees in these nations don’t. Afghanistan (56%) and Lebanon (53%), two nations in extreme crises that even have the highest scores on Gallup’s 2021 Adverse Expertise Index, reported the bottom work enjoyment, with almost one in two employees not having fun with the work they do.

The similarities between excessive work enjoyment and constructive experiences, and decrease work enjoyment and unfavorable experiences, counsel a relationship between day-to-day emotional experiences (together with enjoyment) and delight at work. This means that there are between-country cultural variations that additionally issue into the chance that a person enjoys their work and feels constructive experiences of their day-to-day lives.

To elucidate these rankings could be unattainable, however this doesn’t essentially imply that they don’t make sense, even when in ways in which we don’t perceive. A thought-provoking 2008 article by Cynthia Wolterding at Transitions Overseas, “The Happiest Nation”, opened:

That is no nation for kvetches. 56% of the inhabitants think about themselves to be “very completely happy” — greater than some other nation on the planet. Add to that one other 37% who affirm they’re “fairly completely happy” and all that’s left is a piddling, puling minority of misfits, malingerers and malcontents. No, this isn’t, as you would possibly count on, some remoted mountain Shangri La, like Bhutan, or a socialist utopia, like Denmark, and it’s definitely not america (39% very completely happy) or the U.Okay., the place solely a pitiful 4.1% of its citizenry declare to be very completely happy, thanks very a lot.

Descending via layers of fleecy cumulous clouds, from my window seat on the airplane I caught a glimpse of pristine seashores, lush surroundings, hovering volcanoes and all the trimmings of a tropical paradise — however expertise tells me that nights of tropical splendor oft result in bother in paradise. Nonetheless, I’m assured that I’ve not been suckered into this journey by mere promotional patter from a vacationer brochure; I’m right here on a sociological expedition of types, to verify experientially the veracity of the above cited  statistics, that are based mostly on arduous scientific proof documented by the World Values Survey in 2008, a worldwide investigation of socio-cultural and political change carried out by groups of social scientists from prestigious universities in additional than 80 nations, a severe tutorial endeavor that decided impartially and empirically that the Happiest Nation within the World is…El Salvador. …

I used to be dazzled and a wee bit terrified as a result of I had been to El Salvador earlier than, at a time when it was not referred to as the happiest nation on earth. The truth is, I had lived there for nearly a decade in the course of the 80s and 90s when El Salvador was mainly referred to as the nation that invented loss of life squads. A civil warfare ravaged the nation leaving 80,000 lifeless, and when the warfare lastly led to 1992, demobilized troopers become mobsters armed with surplus M-16s terrorized the citizenry, together with tattooed gang members deported from South Central LA. My most vivid recollections of El Salvador had been of days spent spread-eagled on the kitchen flooring whereas guerrillas manned a machine gun nest just a few toes from my home and, just a few years later, feeling the chilly snout of a handgun prod my temple in a hold-up that turned out to be a case of mistaken id: the bandidos had adopted the flawed taxi. … [But things aren’t nearly that bad now.]

Content material simply to be alive. It have to be encoded of their DNA — there isn’t a different believable clarification for why Salvadorans are so obscenely cheerful in opposition to all good sense, regardless of all rational proof. Years in the past, earlier than the warfare, earlier than the crime wave and kidnappings and gang wars, El Salvador was marketed in its brochures because the “nation with a smile”. There didn’t appear to be a lot to smile about again then and never a helluva lot to smile about now, regardless that the nation is not run by rich oligarchs and army dictators.

The per capita revenue is about $5,000 a yr, however 45% of the GNP is concentrated in pockets of the richest fifth of the inhabitants. A big share of the GNP comes from family members who immigrated to the States “mojado” (wetback) and battle to ship {dollars} house from their wages cleansing homes and tending the gardens of McMansions they may by no means dwell in. The homicide price is 5 instances that of Detroit.

Perhaps happiness is extra decided by how far you’ve come than by the place you’re. However, then once more: perhaps sunny locations have a tendency to provide sunny tendencies. Who is aware of? No person, but.

Anyway: listed below are the rankings, that are calculated by Persol Holdings from surveys in 122 nations for Gallup, on the query: “Do you benefit from the work you do in your job day-after-day, or not?” and ranked by the % “Sure” v. “No” — as indicated at:

https://www.persol-group.co.jp/en/sustainability/well-being/worlddata

© PERSOL HOLDINGS CO., LTD.

Q1: “Do you benefit from the work you do in your job day-after-day, or not?”

RANKS:

    1

    Republic of El Salvador

    96.5%

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    2

    Republic of Indonesia

    96.0%

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    3

    Republic of Panama

    95.9%

–

    4

    Republic of Nicaragua

    95.6%

–

    5

    Kingdom of Cambodia

    94.8%

–

    6

    Swiss Confederation

    94.5%

–

    7

    Republic of Paraguay

    93.9%

–

    8

    Republic of Honduras

    93.9%

–

    9

    Kingdom of Denmark

    93.6%

–

    10

    United Mexican States

    93.5%

–

    11

    Republic of Colombia

    93.5%

–

    12

    Individuals’s Republic of Bangladesh

    93.4%

–

    13

    Republic of Mauritius

    93.4%

–

    14

    Republic of Austria

    93.1%

–

    15

    Republic of the Philippines

    92.9%

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    16

    Republic of Tajikistan

    92.6%

 –  17

    Mongolia

    92.2%

–

    18

    Republic of Iceland

    91.9%

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    19

    Republic of Ecuador

    91.8%

–

    20

    Republic of Peru

    91.8%

–

    21

    Republic of Finland

    91.8%

–

    22

    Kingdom of Thailand

    91.5%

–

    23

    Kingdom of Belgium

    91.4%

–

    24

    Republic of Senegal

    91.4%

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    25

    Republic of Malta

    91.0%

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    26

    Plurinational State of Bolivia

    91.0%

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    27

    Kingdom of the Netherlands

    90.8%

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    28

    Federative Republic of Brazil

    90.5%

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    29

    Dominican Republic

    90.5%

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    30

    Republic of Estonia

    90.3%

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    31

    Republic of Costa Rica

    90.2%

–

    32

    Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal

    90.1%

–

    33

    Lao Individuals’s Democratic Republic

    89.8%

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    34

    Portuguese Republic

    89.8%

–

    35

    Republic of Poland

    89.3%

–

    36

    Kingdom of Sweden

    89.0%

–

    37

    Socialist Republic of Viet Nam

    89.0%

–

    38

    Romania

    88.8%

–

    39

    Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

    88.8%

–

    40

    Republic of Chile

    88.7%

–

    41

    Republic of Uzbekistan

    88.5%

–

    42

    Republic of Bulgaria

    87.7%

–

    43

    Federal Republic of Germany

    87.4%

–

    44

    Republic of Slovenia

    87.3%

–

    45

    Kingdom of Norway

    87.2%

–

    46

    Argentine Republic

    87.1%

–

    47

    Kingdom of Spain

    86.9%

–

    48

    Oriental Republic of Uruguay

    86.9%

–

    49

    Republic of Lithuania

    86.8%

–

    50

    Republic of Togo

    86.7%

–

    51

    Republic of Latvia

    86.5%

–

    52

    New Zealand

    86.0%

–

    53

    Italian Republic

    85.7%

–

    54

    Republic of the Union of Myanmar

    85.7%

–

    55

    Republic of North Macedonia

    85.5%

–

    56

    Slovak Republic

    85.5%

–

    57

    Republic of Moldova

    85.3%

–

    58

    Malaysia

    85.1%

–

    59

    United Kingdom of Nice Britain and Northern Eire

    84.3%

–

    60

    Republic of Benin

    84.3%

–

    61

    Republic of Guinea

    84.1%

–

    62

    Republic of Mozambique

    83.2%

–

    63

    Bosnia and Herzegovina

    83.2%

–

    64

    French Republic

    83.0%

–

    65

    Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka

    81.8%

–

    66

    Kingdom of Morocco

    81.5%

–

    67

    Republic of Kosovo

    81.1%

–

    68

    Kyrgyz Republic

    81.1%

–

    69

    Eire

    80.7%

–

    70

    Republic of Cote d’Ivoire

    80.7%

–

    71

    Gabonese Republic

    80.6%

–

    72

    Republic of Kazakhstan

    80.6%

–

    73

    Republic of Mali

    80.5%

–

    74

    Republic of Armenia

    80.2%

–

    75

    Ukraine

    80.2%

–

    76

    United States of America

    80.2%

–

    77

    Burkina Faso

    80.1%

–

    78

    State of Israel

    80.0%

–

    79

    Hellenic Republic

    79.6%

–

    80

    Republic of Cyprus

    79.6%

–

    81

    Canada

    79.4%

–

    82

    Republic of Singapore

    79.1%

–

    83

    Republic of Kenya

    79.1%

–

    84

    Republic of Ghana

    78.8%

–

    85

    Hungary

    78.8%

–

    86

    Republic of Albania

    78.6%

–

    87

    Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

    78.5%

–

    88

    Individuals’s Republic of China

    77.9%

–

    89

    Republic of Cameroon

    77.7%

–

    90

    Republic of South Africa

    77.3%

–

    91

    Republic of Namibia

    77.2%

–

    92

    Russian Federation

    77.1%

–

    93

    Australia

    76.0%

–

    94

    United Arab Emirates

    75.9%

–

    95

    Jamaica

    75.5%

–

    96

    Republic of Congo

    74.9%

–

    97

    Republic of Croatia

    74.9%

–

    98

    Republic of Serbia

    74.6%

–

    99

    United Republic of Tanzania

    74.5%

–

    100

    Republic of Iraq

    74.5%

–

    101

    Republic of Uganda

    73.6%

–

    102

    Islamic Republic of Pakistan

    73.0%

–

    103

    Japan

    72.8%

–

    104

    Czech Republic

    72.8%

–

    105

    Federal Republic of Nigeria

    72.1%

–

    106

    India

    71.6%

–

    107

    Georgia

    71.3%

–

    108

    Islamic Republic of Iran

    70.1%

–

    109

    Hong Kong

    69.4%

–

    110

    Jordan

    67.5%

–

    111

    Republic of Malawi

    65.7%

–

    112

    Republic of Korea

    65.3%

–

    113

    Individuals’s Democratic Republic of Algeria

    64.6%

–

    114

    Taiwan

    64.3%

–

    115

    Republic of Zambia

    63.5%

    74.3%

–

    116

    Republic of Zimbabwe

    61.8%

–

    117

    Republic of Tunisia

    60.6%

–

    118

    Arab Republic of Egypt

    60.1%

–

    119

    Republic of Turkey

    59.9%

–

    120

    Republic of Sierra Leone

    56.5%

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    121

    Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

    56.4%

–

    122

    Lebanese Republic

    52.7%

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