Ugandan's The Happiest In East Africa

When one asks you where or not you are happy, what would you reply be? I guess that would depend on a number of factors, imagined or real. A recent study done by the University of Michigan's institute of Social Research in over 91 countries uncovered a number of startling revelations although others were obvious.
In this global survey, it was discovered that in more open societies where the powers that be allowed their citizenry to make free choices regarding life, the people were happier.
This was the case with Uganda, where its citizens were found to be more happier than those within the East African region. It was found that on a 1-10 scales, Ugandans scored 5.1 (0.69 ) coming in at position 70 where as Tanzania scored 0.13 at position 78, Rwanda 0.31 at position 81.
This is a statistic that many Ugandans will agree with given that a close survey of the life of most people especially in the urban areas will reveal that Ugandans, especially the fairly well to do middle class are given to "going out" a lot. There are huge number of night clubs, bars and restaurants. In fact in Kampala city all the roads leading out of the city center into the suburbs are lined with bars, with an average of 100m from one another. Bars and restaurants are a thriving business in the country. This is evident in the increase in weight by most Uganda's especially the younger generation.
Psychologists though state that happiness is a state of the mind and is not so much related to how much wealth one has. It is argued that there are those with huge sums of money who are not happy at all. Where as there are those that are broke and quite happy.
Dr Ronald Inglehart who conducted the study shows that there are more happy people in the world today than a decade or so back. He also said the increased happiness is not due to increased wealth.
This study points out Denmark as the happiest nation in the world, with Zimbabwe coming in on the other end. A fact that is evidently due to the political climate in the country at the moment.
This increase in political freedom though still wanting in some respects has led to an increase in the number of tourists coming to Uganda, despite the fact that it is a landlocked country.
Uganda has also seen an increase in the number of international conferences the hugest being CHOGM, the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting held in 2007, and more recently the IOC the International Islamic Organisation Conference.
Dr Inglehart said that the results prove that it is societies that have and practice the freedom of choice that are the happiest.

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