What is the happiest country in the world according to Instagram?
Words: Violet
You better start smiling in your Instagram posts because the world is watching! Jetpac, a social travel startup, have gathered and analysed data from over 150 million Instagram posts from 6,000 worldwide cities to garner the world’s happiest countries.
By using a ‘Smile Score’ – the bigger the smile the higher the score – researchers have ranked the countries in terms of their smile factor and, therefore, their happiness.
And the results? Well unfortunately the United Kingdom doesn’t feature in the Top 20 (are we even surprised?) and has actually polled at a lowly Rank 62 with 24.3 out of a possible 100.
The counties that made the Top 20 are as follows:
1. Brazil 60.8, 2. Nicaragua 59.4, 3. Colombia 49.8, 4. Bolivia 48.1, 5. Costa Rica 47.4, 6. Honduras 47.2, 7. Venezuela 45.2, 8. Philippines 44.8, 9. Guatemala 42.0, 10. Mexico 40.1, 11. Macedonia 40.1, 12. Kazakhstan 39.6, 13. Panama 39.4, 14. El Salvador 36.2, 15. Ecuador 35.3, 16. Moldova 34.1, 17. Netherlands Antilles 34.1, 18. South Africa 33.6, 19. Romania 33.4, 20. Chile 33.4
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