The Map Scroll

Yet another entrant in the genre of happiness cartography , this time courtesy of Gallup : The survey of 155 countries describes respondents...

Gallup asked some people how satisfied they were with their standard of living, which yielded this result: Says Gallup: The 2009 satisfacti...

Ladies and gentleman, your latest state-by-state quantification of human feeling : This map is based on a new study that finds correlations ...

Not long ago, I did a post about the Happy Planet Index , a quantification of 'ecological efficiency' from the New Economics Foundat...

The New Economics Foundation has come up with something called the Happy Planet Index that categorizes countries based on their relative ...

From Mark Easton , another interesting social map of the UK. This one shows the number of anti-depressant prescriptions per 1000 patients fo...

A fascinating study (pdf link) by Peter J. Rentfrow, Samuel D. Gosling, and Jeff Potter looks at the geographical variation of "the bi...

First, apologies right off the bat for these maps having the ugliest color scheme in the history of the world. (The color spectrum is right ...

Another typically excellent interactive map from the New York Times; this one reveals New Yorker's attitudes about their city across a ...

(h/t to the Sex Pistols for the title, natch) According to the BBC's Mark Easton , these twinned maps provide "a measure of people...

Speaking of national happiness... This map shows levels of "subjective well-being" around the world - i.e., how happy people say t...

Bhutan - a cuddly little egg of a Buddhist kingdom tucked obscurely into the Himalayan Mountains - makes for a rather exciting topographical...