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The Happy Planet Index: an introduction

We are accustomed to comparing countries in terms of crude riches or what they trade. Some countries earn, or are given, reputations for music, sporting excellence, food, or as holiday destinations. There are international league tables for performance on a range of issues from corruption to football. This website introduces a measure of something more fundamental. It addresses the relative success or failure of countries in supporting good life for their citizens, whilst repecting the environmental resource limits upon which our lives depend.
The Happy Planet Index (HPI) is an innovative new measure that shows the ecological efficiency with which human well-being is delivered.

COSTA RICA is the third most happy country in the world, next to the Islands of Vanuatu, an archipelago of 83 islands located in the South Pacific Ocean and Colombia, according to the New Economics Foundation (NEF).

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