Brits are happier and wealthier than European 相当するものs....but we're also fatter and 脅すd of going out after dark
- Data from 34 countries compared
- We also have more 使い捨てできる income - にもかかわらず working より小数の hours
Prices are rising, salaries are frozen and the economy is still teetering on the brink.
But にもかかわらず the 経済的な gloom, Britons are happier with their lives, working shorter hours and 収入 more than many of their 相当するものs in the industrialised world.
The Organisation for 経済的な Co-操作／手術 and 開発, a club of the world’s 34 richest countries, 報告（する）／憶測s that the UK ‘成し遂げるs very 井戸／弁護士席 in 全体にわたる 井戸／弁護士席-存在’, 最高位の の中で the 最高の，を越す countries and fares 井戸／弁護士席 under 基準 含むing wealth, 環境, good governance and community spirit.
Fat but happy: Brits may be overweight but we're enjoying our lives, によれば a new 熟考する／考慮する from the 経済協力開発機構
Over the past １０年間, 6 8 per cent of Britons say they have been 満足させるd with their lives, compared with an 経済協力開発機構 普通の／平均（する） of 59 per cent.
The 調査する also shows a healthy 楽観主義, with 79 per cent believing their lives will be 満足させるing in five years time.
On the broadest 手段 of satisfaction with life, Britain 階級d 15th out of the 34 countries.
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The 普通の／平均（する） 世帯 has a 使い捨てできる income of £16,700 a year, compared with the 経済協力開発機構 普通の／平均（する） £13,700.
However, we only 階級d 17th out of 34 on health, with 普通の／平均（する） life 見込み and obesity a particular problem.
We are also more overweight than we were and feel いっそう少なく 安全な when we 投機・賭ける out after dark.
The 熟考する／考慮する 結論するd that women in this country were 'able to 首尾よく balance family and career'.
Britain had a 'strong sense of community' -? with 95% of people believing they knew someone they could rely on in a time of need - higher than the 経済協力開発機構 普通の／平均（する） of 91 per cent.
Only 5 per cent said they rarely or never spent time with friends in social settings.
Nearly 59 per cent of Britons 報告（する）／憶測d having helped a stranger within the past month, （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域ing the EU 普通の／平均（する） once again.
Some parts of the 熟考する／考慮する 確認する what many will already know? - Scandinavian countries 充てる plenty of time to leisure 追跡s and the highest 殺人 率s are in Mexico, South Africa and Brazil.
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There are other 利益／興味ing 発見s about what makes people in other parts of the world happy -? the success of the South Korean education system is 公式文書，認めるd as is the fact that Canada has the best homes ? at 2.5 rooms per person.
Even more surprisingly, in the UK 65 per cent of people said they 信用d political 会・原則s - more than the 56 per cent in other countries.
Life 見込み in the UK was 79.7 years, わずかに above the 普通の／平均（する） of 79, but behind several European countries like Italy (81.5), Spain (81.2), フラン (81) and Germany (80.2).
The Better Life 索引 was 開始する，打ち上げるd as part of 経済協力開発機構 Week celebrating 50 years of the 会・原則 which 促進するs 全世界の 政策s on economy and 井戸／弁護士席-存在.
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