MONEY MIGHT BE UNRELATED TO HAPPINESS, SAYS NEW STUDY

Research suggests overlooked Indigenous people with low or no income may be happiest of all

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A new study has found that we may be overlooking the truly happiest people in the world because they're rarely included in the figures.

In global happiness rankings such as the World Happiness Report (WHR), scientists tend to observe a correlation between high levels of life satisfaction and high income. However, these polls often do not distinguish small-scale Indigenous and local societies from whole nations. In some of these communities, money plays a small role in everyday life.