The world's happiest and least happy countries

Holidaymakers need to consider the world’s happiest countries list before deciding their holiday destination. 

Scandinavian nations dominate 2013 World Happiness Report.

Denmark, with 7.693 was stated as the happiest nation, following by Norway (7.655), Switzerland (7.650), The Netherlands (7.512) and Sweden (7.480). Canada (7.477), Finland (7.389), Austria (7.369), Iceland (7.355) and Australia (7.350) completed the top ten.

The least happy of the 156 countries to feature was Togo, with a rating of 2.936.

The United States came in at number 17 in the world in terms of overall happiness, but it still lags behind Canada (6), Australia (10), Israel (11) the United Arab Emirates (14) and Mexico (16) 

The report ranks the United Kingdom as the 22^nd, Germany 26^th, Japan 43^rd, Russia 68^th, Greece 70^th and Turkey 77^th.