HPI stands for Happy Planet Index and the UK comes 73 places below Costa Rica.
The HPI is an efficiency measure: the degree to which long and happy lives (life satisfaction and life expectancy are multiplied together to calculate happy life years) are achieved per unit of environmental impact.
To find out what that means click this link and read more from Mark Easton.
Alternatively go to the UN's home of the Happy Planet Index.
Calculate your own Happy Planet Index by clicking here.
Saturday, 4 July 2009
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