Belgium

Belgium is the EU country with the happiest people, according to survey released by Eurostat. The results are based on a survey from 2018, in which people over 16 were asked to rank the frequency of when they were happy in the four weeks prior to the survey as ‘all of the time’, ‘most of the time’, ‘some of the time’, ‘a little of the time’ or ‘none of the time’. Eurostat ranked the countries by adding the percentage of citizens who indicated they were happy ‘all of the time’ to the percentage of those who were happy ‘most of the time’ in the four weeks before the survey. Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria and Finland come out on top, as 76% of respondents claim to be happy in all four countries. However, Belgium is ranked first of those four with the most people who felt happy ‘all of the time’ (17.1%), compared to 15.3% in the Netherlands, 14.4% in Austria and 12.3% in Finland.

Pascal Brackman