Africa: The World's Happiest Continents

           

 

               

In celebration of the International Day of Happiness, Jetpac  set out to find the happiest country in the world - measured not by how happy people say they are, but by their actual smiles.
Finding the Happiest Countries in the World took doing image processing on over 150 million Instagram photos to count and size the smiles on people's faces from all the cities in the World. From counting the pixels, we were able to come up with a Smile Score for every city in every country.
Smiles on the faces of millions of people in millions of photos are the most direct measure we have of happiness. Previous attempts to measure happiness have relied on survey questions or indirect measures. Jetpac is identifying smiles on faces and then measuring the shape and size of the smile - a small grin doesn't score as highly as a broad smile. Smiling for the camera seems to be a cultural norm for a country.
Are some countries happier than others? Some definitely smile more than others...
Top 10 Happy Countries:
1. Brazil 60.5
2. Nicaragua 59.4
3. Honduras 53.9
4. Colombia 49.8
5. Bolivia 48.1
6. Costa Rica 47.5
7. Venezuela 47.0
8. Philippines 46.0
9. Guatemala 42.0
10. Mexico 40.3
This is how Africa scored on the list 122 countries:
24. South Africa 31.5
38. Angola 29.0
43. Egypt 26.7
44. Ghana 26.4
69. Tunisia 22.2
58. Nigeria 24.3
81. Morocco 20.0
86. Kenya 18.8
96. Tanzania 17.0
104. Mauritius 14.7