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北欧国家在联合国(United Nations)最新发布的全球幸福感排行榜上遥遥领先,有三个北欧国家进入前五个全球最幸福国家行列。在这份"全球幸福感报告"(World Happiness Report)中,丹麦、挪威、瑞士、荷兰和瑞典排在前五名,这份报告由联合国可持续发展方案联盟(Sustainable Development Solutions Network)发布,涵盖156个国家。美国排在第17名,多哥排名垫底,排在卢旺达、布隆迪、中非共和国和贝宁之后。


Scandinavia cleaned up in the latest global rankings of happiness, notching three of the top five spots in the latest United Nations report.


这份报告的编辑以及其中一章的合着者海利维尔(John Helliwell)说,今年的排名与2012年首次发布这一报告时相比变化不大。海利维尔目前就职于英属哥伦比亚大学(University of British Columbia)温哥华经济学院(Vancouver School of Economics)以及加拿大高级研究所(Canadian Institute for Advanced Research)。在最新报告中,丹麦保持了第一的排名,瑞士挤进前五,加拿大则跌出前五,排在第六名。海利维尔指出,各国实际得分的差距通常很微小。比如芬兰得分为7.369,位列第七,而澳大利亚以7.369的得分位列第八。


Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Sweden were the first five finishers in the World Happiness Report, a ranking of 156 countries issued by the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network. The U.S. ranked 17; Togo was the lowest-ranked country, taking 156 place after Rwanda, Burundi, the Central African Republic and Benin.


这一排名是基于个人对自己生活的评估,盖洛普世界民意调查(Gallup World Poll)在2010年至2012年期间采集了这些数据。参与者被要求基于一些问题对他们的幸福感进行评估。问题包括他们是否感觉到在需要时能获得社会支持以及是否能自由做出生活选择。


There weren't significant shifts in the rankings from 2012, the first year the report was issued, said John Helliwell, one of the work's editors, and co-author of one of its chapters. Mr. Helliwell, of the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia, and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Denmark held on to the number-one spot, Switzerland edged into the top five and Canada fell out of the group, to sixth place, in the latest report. Mr. Helliwell noted that there often were only slight differences in countries' actual scores. For example, Finland, at 7.369, was in seventh place while Austria was in eighth, with a score of 7.369.


对这份报告做出贡献的分析师研究了这些民调数据,并且参考了其他衡量幸福感的指标,进而对模式和趋势进行梳理。心理健康被认为是感觉不幸福的一个主要原因,失业也是一个因素。金融危机对北美和西欧国家的幸福感产生影响,但显然没有对拉丁美洲加勒比地区国家的幸福感造成影响,研究发现,过去五年这两个地区国家的生活质量有所改善。综上,作者指出,在过去五年中全球幸福感略微提升,也更加慷慨了。


The rankings are based on individuals' evaluations of their lives, collected in the Gallup World Poll between 2010 and 2012. Participants were asked to evaluate their well-being based on questions such as whether they felt they had social support in times of need, if they were free to make life choices.


Brenda Cronin