Happy Planet Index

Colombia is ranked third in the world in the Happy Planet Index.

A few years ago, it created the world Happy Planet Index, which compares various national indicators to rank the world's nations.

The Happy Planet Index combines it with life expectancy and ecological footprint.

The Happy Planet Index calculates how many happy life years each country is able to generate per global hectare of ecological footprint.

The (Un)happy Planet Index.

Happy Planet Index rating: 76.1 (which makes Costa Rica the happiest place on the planet)

Happy Planet Index (HPI)

All countries score highly on surveys measuring quality of life, such as the Human Development Index and the Happy Planet Index.

The (Un)happy Planet Index: An Index of Human Well-being and Environmental Impact.

The Happy Planet Index, introduced in 2006, is unique among quality of life measures in that, in addition to standard determinants of well-being, it uses each country's ecological footprint as an indicator.

Shifting focus from current metrics of success such as GDP to new ones such as GNH (Gross national happiness), the Happy Planet Index,and/or other well-being indices.

The Happy Planet Index (HPI) is an index of human well-being and environmental impact that was introduced by the New Economics Foundation (NEF) in July 2006.

The Happy Planet Index: An index of human well-being and environmental impact by Nic Marks, Saamah Abdallah, Andrew Simms and Sam Thompson, (12 July 2006).

While some think it odd that a country so plagued with insurgency and drug trafficking could rate second on the Happy Planet Index, those who've visited in recent years report a much improved safety record and an irrepressible energy, both infectious and uplifting.

In July 2006, NEF launched the Happy Planet Index, intended to challenge existing indices of a state's success, such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Human Development Index (HDI).

Many a human's idea of blissful living involves swinging in a palm-strung hammock while the ocean swooshes gently onto a white-sand beach nearby - so it's no surprise that the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu was voted top dog in the New Economics Foundation's Happy Planet Index.

In 2006 the New Economics Foundation and Friends of the Earth environmentalist group published the Happy Planet Index which analysed data on levels of reported happiness, life expectancy and Ecological Footprint and estimated Vanuatu to be the most ecologically efficient country in the world in achieving high well-being.