Sri Lanka ranks second in a global mental well-being index

• Data collected from 500,000 respondents in 71 countries

Sri Lanka ranks second in a global mental well-being index, way ahead of even the developed western countries such as the United Kingdom, according to a news report published in the UK’s The Telegraph newspaper.   
Sri Lanka is second only to the Dominican Republic.   
According to the news report, “The results suggest that despite living through an unfolding humanitarian disaster, Yemeni’s are functioning better in relative terms than not only Brits, but the Aussies and Irish, too.   

Right. Forgive us for not relocating to downtown Sana’a just yet. Rich Western nations performed poorly overall, with researchers noting: “Greater wealth and economic development do not necessarily lead to greater mental well-being,” the news report of The Telegraph said.   
Well, there’s always someone else worse off, right? Here’s looking at you Uzbekistan, the only nation to rank lower than the UK in a global mental well-being index. Yup, we’re more miserable than Moldova. Bluer than Belarus. Even Yemen and Ukraine are in better spirits, apparently. First world problems just got real.   
Measuring mental well-being is a tricky business. But the US non-profit, Sapien Labs, has had a go with its Mental State of the World report, the latest edition of which has just landed. Using data from 500,000 respondents in 71 countries, it measures how people’s “inner state impacts their ability to function within their life context”. In other words, mental well-being relative to the setting.
 (THE TELEGRAPH)