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The happiest countries in the world have the highest antidepressant consumers.

This paradox has of late become the focal point of the criticism directed at studies of happiness, with people from around the world, including Finns themselves, pointing out that the measures used often dont account for such things as loneliness in highly-developed societies and the fact that material well-being does not preclude conditions like clinical depression.What they really rank is how well each nation has created the conditions for happiness among its citizens. Because happiness itself is too ineffable, individual and elusive to be contained within such prosaic things as rankings and measurements.