Happiness also depends a lot on what kind of aspirations you have. Just look at this reddit thread I posted as an example. With the kind of attitude Pakis show in the comments, most don't have any desire to improve or express displeasure that they ride literal death traps.
The current crop of Indians having tasted growth in the last 10-15 years have far bigger expectations for themselves, demands for a better quality of life and ambitions/aspirations than Paki mongrels. In absolute terms, the data released by the UN should therefore make sense. But you'll need to add context by grouping countries by their current rate of industrialization and other socioeconomic parameters for any of this to make sense.
The vid is sensitive so you peeps have to go watch it. Just remove the (dot) with .
