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According to stats posted on The Daily Beast:  
•Residents of Hawaii are 8.5 percent happier than residents of West Virginia  
•Americans overall are 200 percent happier than those living in Cameroon, but The world's happiest country? Costa Rica  
•Grateful people are 25 percent happier than ingrates.  
•Rich people are 27 percent happier than poor people.  
•Republicans are 15 percent happier than their donkey-leaning peers. (Democrats)  
•Your grandparents may seem crotchety, but older people report being 18 percent happier than young folk.  
•If you have a happy friend living within a half-mile radius, you are 42 percent more likely to be happy, too. Moreover, your chances for happiness increase 15.3 percent if someone intimately involved with you becomes happy, 9.8 percent when a friend of a friend becomes happy, and 5.6 percent when a friend of a friend of a friend becomes happy.  
•Members of the clergy are 509 percent happier than gas-station attendants. In fact, clergy and firefighters make up the happiest of all professions, followed by travel agents, butlers, and architects. If you're an orthodontist, there's a 99 percent chance that you're happy—according to a study published in the world's only major nonprofit orthodontics-industry journal  
•Married people are 19 percent happier than unmarried people.  
•Married moms are 14 percent happier than single moms. But according to the woman who did the study, "This is 100 percent financial," She also said: "When I matched moms for income, the single mothers were actually significantly happier."  
 
So who’s happier between Stay-at-home or working moms?  
 
If you're a stay-at-home mom, there's a 36 percent chance that you're very happy.  
If you're a working mom, your chance of being very happy is exactly the same: 36 percent  
 
In theory the happiest person in the world is a 65 year old, rich, married, Republican orthodontist who lives in Costa Rica, within a half mile of his/her happy friend.