Happiness and statistics

About 10% of our happiness increase depends on circumstantial factors. I will try to find few relevant statistics related to each factor.

1.National, geographical and cultural factors
According to the World happiness report the most happy people live in Switzerland, with the last place being Togo. Check the link for top of the 2015.

2.Age, gender, ethnicity
Older people are happier than young people. In 1970 women were happier than men, but after 2000-2004 women happiness decreased and now men are happier than women. White ethnic group is the happier, Black ethnic group is the least happy.

3. Life status - marital status, occupational status, job security, job income, health, religious affiliations.
People who are paid more are happier, middle class individuals are happier than working class, married people are happier than single, divorced or widowed ones, (following the studies mentioned here: Diener, Sandvik, Seidlitz, & Diener,1993, Warr & Payne, 1982, Mastekaasa, 1994, Diener, Gohm, Suh, & Oishi, 2000). Being religious, doesn't matter what religion is, will increase your happiness overall.

4. Personal history - childhood trauma, car accident, winning and important award are influencing the happiness too