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A new international survey, the Gallup-Healthways Global Well-Being Index, reveals how 135 countries rank when it comes to the well-being of their residents.
The results are based on how people fare on five factors that contribute to well-being. These factors include having purpose, being physically healthy, being financially secure, having supportive social relationships and being satisfied with the community. [Read the full story on world's happiest countries]
The Gallup's researchers looked at each country and the percentage of people who were thriving in three or more of these factors:
| Countries | Percentage of people thriving in 3 or more elements of well-being |
| Panama | 61 |
| Costa Rica | 44 |
| Denmark | 40 |
| Austria | 39 |
| Brazil | 39 |
| El Salvador | 37 |
| Uruguay | 37 |
| Sweden | 36 |
| Canada | 34 |
| Guatemala | 34 |
| Trinidad & Tobago | 34 |
| Argentina | 33 |
| The Netherlands | 33 |
| United States of America | 33 |
| Colombia | 32 |
| Chile | 31 |
| Mexico | 31 |
| United Arab Emirates | 31 |
| New Zealand | 30 |
| Venezuela | 30 |
| Nicaragua | 29 |
| Saudi Arabia | 29 |
| Australia | 28 |
| Bahrain | 28 |
| Malta | 28 |
| United Kingdom | 28 |
| Germany | 27 |
| Ireland | 27 |
| Paraguay | 27 |
| Ecuador | 26 |
| Honduras | 26 |
| Iceland | 26 |
| Kuwait | 26 |
| Israel | 25 |
| Jamaica | 24 |
| Kosovo | 24 |
| Malaysia | 24 |
| Philippines | 24 |
| Spain | 24 |
| Turkmenistan | 24 |
| Belgium | 23 |
| Bolivia | 23 |
| Finland | 23 |
| Morocco | 22 |
| Thailand | 22 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 21 |
| Luxembourg | 21 |
| Northern Cyprus | 21 |
| Portugal | 20 |
| Dominican Republic | 19 |
| France | 19 |
| Lebanon | 19 |
| Hungary | 18 |
| Mongolia | 18 |
| Slovenia | 18 |
| Taiwan | 18 |
| Vietnam | 18 |
| Mauritania | 17 |
| Poland | 17 |
| Sri Lanka | 17 |
| Peru | 16 |
| Russia | 16 |
| Slovakia | 16 |
| Bangladesh | 15 |
| Cyprus | 15 |
| Estonia | 15 |
| Ethiopia | 15 |
| India | 15 |
| Indonesia | 15 |
| Iraq | 15 |
| Japan | 15 |
| Kazakhstan | 15 |
| Myanmar (Burma) | 15 |
| Iran | 14 |
| Jordan | 14 |
| Macedonia | 14 |
| Moldova | 14 |
| Nagorno Karabakh | 14 |
| Romania | 14 |
| South Korea | 14 |
| Belarus | 13 |
| Czech Republic | 13 |
| Malawi | 13 |
| Republic of Congo | 13 |
| Angola | 12 |
| Bulgaria | 12 |
| China | 12 |
| Ghana | 12 |
| Pakistan | 12 |
| Rwanda | 12 |
| Tajikistan | 12 |
| Cambodia | 11 |
| Ivory Coast | 11 |
| Mali | 11 |
| Nepal | 11 |
| Sierra Leone | 11 |
| Tunisia | 11 |
| Turkey | 11 |
| Yemen | 11 |
| Bosnia & Herzegovina | 10 |
| Egypt | 10 |
| Greece | 10 |
| Latvia | 10 |
| Montenegro | 10 |
| Niger | 10 |
| Nigeria | 10 |
| Palestine | 10 |
| Serbia | 10 |
| Azerbaijan | 9 |
| Guinea | 9 |
| Lithuania | 9 |
| Albania | 8 |
| Armenia | 8 |
| Bhutan | 8 |
| Italy | 8 |
| Tanzania | 8 |
| Ukraine | 8 |
| Zimbabwe | 8 |
| Botswana | 7 |
| Burkina Faso | 7 |
| Cameroon | 7 |
| Croatia | 7 |
| Gabon | 7 |
| Georgia | 7 |
| Kenya | 7 |
| Senegal | 7 |
| South Africa | 7 |
| Benin | 6 |
| Madagascar | 6 |
| Uganda | 6 |
| Chad | 5 |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 5 |
| Haiti | 3 |
| Afghanistan | 1 |
| Syria | 1 |
Email Bahar Gholipour. Follow Live Science @livescience, Facebook & Google+. Originally published on Live Science.
