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# Dataset: 2019 World Happiness Report
This data represents the happiness levels of 155 different countries in 2019. It is made by a survey. The data believes that there are six major factors in contributing to happiness. These six factors are used to measure the happiness in different countries to see how it varies by location, family, GDP, social support, etc. The happiness is scored according to the six factors as well.
The data is available from the World Happiness Report on [kaggle](kaggle.com) from the World Happiness Report as [2019.csv](https://www.kaggle.com/unsdsn/world-happiness?select=2019.csv). `
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## Analysis Questions
**What makes some countries happier than others?**
Specific Questions:
1. What are the top happiest countries?
2. Which factors have the biggest impact on happiness?
3. How does geographic location affect happiness?
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## 1. What are the top happiest countries?
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md`It's not a surprise to see that the continent of Africa has a lower ranking than everywhere else, but we can really dive in deeper to see if having the highest number of 3rd world countries come into play with this observation.`
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This visual is to actually get the names of the countries that are in this ranking of happiness scores.
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md`Although at first glance this can be an intimidating visual, it is simply the happiness score of all the ranked countries in descending order. It's nice to see it all laid out like this because it seems like the happiness scores do not differ by a significant amount with the countries that ranked closer together, but there is quite a jump from the top and the bottom. With this, we can infer that even the countries in the top 10 happiest aren't really *that* much happier than each other.`
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## 2. Which factors have the biggest impact on happiness?
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Here we are seeing how GDP affects the happiness score of countries. Taking the median happiness score of 5.386, we can see that generally the happier countries have a higher GDP per capita than the less happy countries. It seems that we could infer that generally higher income individuals that make up the country are generally happier than lower income.
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In this visual, the pink is simply the happiness score and the countries are listed in decreasing order which is evident in the pink dots slowly getting closer to the origin. The blue line represents the countries' measurement of how the freedom to make life choices contributes to the happiness score. I chose to display it with a line to represent that there really is no correlation between the freedom to make life choices and how happy the country is. Some of the higher ranked countries have a really low perception of the freedom to make life choices.
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In descending order on the x-axis we have the countries happiness ranking, and the y-axis is the healthy life expectancy's contribution to its happiness score. I believe that the healthy life expectancy is a huge contribution because it seems that the bars slowly decrease with the ranking.
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This one compares the averages of how generosity compares to the top happier countries to the lower less happy countries. The difference between the two averages is not significant which shows that generosity is not a huge factor on a country's happiness score.
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## 3. How does geographic location affect happiness?
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It seems that the Asia and Africa take the majority of the lower half of the ranked countries, and everywhere else is in the top half.
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