Posted by: ANS March 16, 2009
In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.
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 Bhutan is the happiest country in the world..  i.e. a country with highest 'Gross National Happiness (GNH)'.

GNH value is proposed to be an index function of the total average per capita of the following measures:
  1. Economic Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical
    measurement of economic metrics such as consumer debt, average income
    to consumer price index ratio and income distribution
  2. Environmental Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical
    measurement of environmental metrics such as pollution, noise and
    traffic
  3. Physical Wellness: Indicated via statistical measurement of physical health metrics such as severe illnesses
  4. Mental Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical
    measurement of mental health metrics such as usage of antidepressants
    and rise or decline of psychotherapy patients
  5. Workplace Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical
    measurement of labor metrics such as jobless claims, job change,
    workplace complaints and lawsuits
  6. Social Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical
    measurement of social metrics such as discrimination, safety, divorce
    rates, complaints of domestic conflicts and family lawsuits, public
    lawsuits, crime rates
  7. Political Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical
    measurement of political metrics such as the quality of local
    democracy, individual freedom, and foreign conflicts.

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