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Balts among world’s least ‘happy’

Jul 23, 2008
By Talis Saule Archdeacon

RIGA - A recent survey has found that citizens of the Baltic states are some of the unhappiest people in the world. The study, which was conducted by the U.S.-funded World Values Survey organization, ranked Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in 84th, 85th and 86th place, respectively. The survey was conducted in a total of 97 countries covering about 90 percent of the world’s population. The Baltic states saw a sharp decline in their happiness rating during the 1990s, the reverberations of which can ...


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