Caribbean people among the happiest
Published:Monday | July 6, 2009 | 1:09 PM
A British thinktank says the world\'s happiest people live in Costa Rica followed by the Dominican Republic and Jamaica.
The BBC says a report by the New Economics Foundation devised an equation that weighed life expectancy and people\'s happiness against their environmental impact.
The report had Costa Rica as the happiest, greenest country in the world.
Latin American and Caribbean nations generally fared well in the report, taking nine of the 10 top spots.
Seven Caribbean nations are among the 143 countries on the index, which covers 99 per cent of the world\'s people.
The other five are Cuba at number 7, Belize 27, Trinidad and Tobago 30, Haiti 42 and Guyana 63.