[GalenErso]

A recent Ipsos survey showed that China was the country with the highest proportion of happy people, at 91%.[1]

A 2020 survey by Harvard researchers showed similar results. [2]

People living in autocracies are far less dissatisfied with their systems of government as democracy minded Westerners like myself might assume.

[1] https://www.ipsos.com/en/global-happiness-six-points-last-ye...

[2] https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/long-term-sur...

[charlieyu1]

Doubtful about this.

World Happiness Report 2023 has China at rank 64.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report

[Leary]

The studies had different methodologies and questions.

The Ipsos one asked respondents:

"Taking all things together, would you say you are: very happy, rather happy, not very happy, not happy at all?"

The World Happiness Report asks the respondents:

"think of a ladder, with the best possible life for them being a 10 and the worst possible life being a 0. They are then asked to rate their own current lives on that 0 to 10 scale."

Unsurprisingly, the two offers very different conclusions.

[bouncycastle]

Of course you are going to say that you are happy, you don't want to provoke your local autocracy...

[ClumsyPilot]

in Russia very few people will say they are hapoy. The might nit elaborate why