Do you believe that with this fascinating infographic of the world map of happiness, prepared by HPI, it has been proven that you can live a fuller and happier life only outside of Europe? See which countries give their residents the best conditions for happiness or, in short, where in the world people are the happiest.
By multiplying "experienced well-being" or in short happiness with life expectancy and then dividing it with the ecological awareness of the nation, the organization HPI get a score that showed where they have the happiest life for the longest length of stay they achieve through sustainable development.
They are winners Costa Rica, Vietnam and Colombia - the excellent performances of the football players at this year's World Cup probably also contributed to this. In the meantime, not a single European nation made it into the top ten.
READ MORE: In what are individual European countries the worst: Slovenia is among them
Check out the happiness maps below.
Color chart and colored world map
![A colored scale of happiness and a colored world map.](https://e7852c3a.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/happinessinfographiclarge4_1-660x1112.jpg)
Happiness in Europe
![Europe](https://e7852c3a.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/happinessinfographiclarge4_11-660x496.jpg)
Luck in North America
![North America](https://e7852c3a.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/happinessinfographiclarge4_3-660x594.jpg)
Luck in Central America
![central America](https://e7852c3a.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/happinessinfographiclarge4_4-660x525.jpg)
Happiness in South America
![South America](https://e7852c3a.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/happinessinfographiclarge4_5-660x684.jpg)
Happiness in Africa
![Africa](https://e7852c3a.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/happinessinfographiclarge4_6-660x586.jpg)
Fortune in Asia and the Middle East
![Asia and the Middle East](https://e7852c3a.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/happinessinfographiclarge4_7-660x615.jpg)
The happiest countries and some other statistics about happiness in other countries
![The happiest countries and statistics for other countries](https://e7852c3a.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/happinessinfographiclarge4_8-660x903.jpg)
More information:
happyplanetindex.org