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Tanzania named third unhappiest country in the world
Posted By: Dar Post March 21, 2017
To the surprise of researchers, Tanzania has been named the third unhappiest country in the world. Photo: Daniel Hayduk
For the second year in a row, Tanzania has been ranked in the ‘top 10’ no country wants to be a part of: the top 10 unhappiest countries in the world.
Tanzania is now the third unhappiest country in the world, says this year’s World Happiness Report which ranked 155 countries.
Despite 8 of the 10 unhappiest countries being in Africa, the report’s authors were surprised Tanzania scored so low.
“Their predicted values, which are based on their performance on the six key variables [of economic strength, social support, life expectancy, freedom of choice, generosity and perceived corruption] are high enough to rank them much higher than they do in the survey.”
Only Burundi and the Central African Republic scored worse than Tanzania.
Elsewhere in the region, Rwanda is the fifth unhappiest country while Uganda was ranked the 23rd and Kenya 44th.
The report urged all African countries to capitalize on it’s youth in order to improve on their ‘happiness deficit.’
“What if Africa looks to its youth to realize the continent’s dreams of prosperity? What if the African youth’s confidence in their future and their entrepreneurial spirit were to be matched by substantial investment in their development? Then, no doubt, African countries would join the ranks of the world’s prosperous and happy nations.”
The happiest country in the world this year is Norway.
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- Chuba | March 23, 2017 at 13:42 |
As long as CCM remains in power lawfully or unlawfully, by hooks or by crooks, by scoring with a legal football kick or by “goli la mkono”, then you can kiss happiness or prosperity goodbye. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. CCM is like”kidonda ndugu” unless you cure it, it will remain a “sugu” stumbling block of this lovely country.
- Mehdi Fazal | March 23, 2017 at 22:44 |
The question is who conducted the survey etc
Did they take happiness measures from countries like Nepal which uses such indexes? And did the use a random sample – not an online study – but based on scientific polling rules?
Only if they use such rules should we delve deeper. However we should avoid all bias and emotions
- Ameet | March 24, 2017 at 00:26 |
I totally agree with the survey. There is so much corruption in the country at every point in life. Be it business or social or even driving public is always worried about harassment by officers. It has become a way of life but sure this does not make anyone happy. Furthermore there is insecurity to the extent that you are worried in your own home. The social security and government service is so poor despite of paying taxes. Happy after all this?!!!! No way!! I love this country but can not just disagree with the survey when it’s so factual.
