Pakistanis are happpier than Indians.

[The_Player]

Re: Pakistanis are happpier than Indians.

@Med911

Pakistanis are hardly that much happier… If in fact they are. But are you saying that income inequality isnt an issue in India?
I should imagine that income inequality would be far more depressing in a country like India, with its growing economy, with the increasing gap between the haves and have nots, then in Pak with its stagnant economy.

Income inequality in country where the rich are getting richer by the day, and the poor are stuck where they are, seems far more likely an explanation for lower rates of happiness (whatever that means), then the idea that people are simply unhappy because they have to much, as another guppie had implied.

Firstly, I dont think 1000 people is a statistically significant sample in a country of 1.2 billion people.

Secondly Gallup probably surveyed folks in the cities, mostly part of the huge Indian middle class. Income inequality isnt really as big an issue there as are issues like rising cost of living, the stress of making ends meet, the growing consumerism and the peer pressure to buy the newest things etc.