By Arun Kumar
INDIANS may not be the happiest people in the world yet but happiness in India shows 'steeply rising trends' as the world becomes happier by the day, suggests a new survey.
The happiest country in the world is Denmark with its democracy, social equality and peaceful atmosphere, according to the World Values Survey, funded by the US National Science Foundation.
Zimbabwe, torn by political and social strife, is the least happy, while the world's richest nation, the US, ranks 16th, according to the survey done regularly by a global network of social scientists.
It found increased happiness from 1981 to 2007 in 45 of 52 countries analysed. 'In several of these countries - India, Ireland, Mexico, Puerto Rico and South Korea - there are steeply rising trends' of happiness, it said.
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