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Brasil's senate is expected to soon approve a bill concerning happiness.
“Happiness isn’t a game, people confuse it with something that is superfluous and it isn’t,” said Mauro Motoryn, director of the Happier Movement, an NGO backing the legislation. “We need quality health care, which we don’t have. We need quality education, which we don’t have.”
The concept of a “gross national happiness” index to rival gross domestic product/ GDP to measure a country’s well-being was pioneered in the 1970s by the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan.
The UK and France have both indicated a willingness to measure happiness. Both Japan and South Korea include the right to happiness in their constitutions.
