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A cool guide to countries where children are the most and least satisfied with their lives. (lemmit.online)
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[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 3 points 11 months ago

I'm somewhat curious about the selection of countries here. It mostly looks like developed countries in Europe, plus the US, Canada and Australia, which often get lumped in with that due to their colonial history, and Japan and South Korea, which are similarly well off these days and have close relations with some of the countries previously listed, but Chile is a bit of an outlier. What makes it possible to get data from Chile, but not any other countries in south or central America?

[-] LostWon@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It says "high income countries," which presumably means GDP. On a quick search, I found Uruguay and Guyana are highest per capita but Chile with its larger population and size is far higher in total GDP.

[-] LostWon@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

Rather than nearly useless (and often detrimental) GDP, this is the kind of goal setting we need to be prioritizing and tracking in each country (for all age groups). Happiness, health, and achievement trends among a population can be used to verify-- with far less doubt and room for obfuscation by powerful and greedy people-- if governments are doing their job well over time, as data accumulates.

[-] Ingiald@feddit.nl -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Dutch children: Depressed, fit and lonely.

Edit: my bad, I read it wrong

[-] oroboros@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

You've read it wrong, that would be Japan

[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

How do you get that from this data? Netherlands is like, absolutely smashing these charts?

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