Puerto Ricans, world's happiest people

According to the Sweden-based World Values Survey, Puerto Ricans are the world's happiest people. For Puerto Rican Enrique Rodriguez, the reason is simple:

"We have our problems like everyone, but they're nothing like in Cuba ..."

Good point.

Cuba isn't included in the subjective well-being rankings, presumably because Castro didn't want Cubans' happiness surveyed. Peoples' paradise? Yeah, right.

Update: It is a bit difficult to get to the subjective well-being rankings of 82 societies so here's the summary (edited for clarity):

All 28 high-income countries rank high or medium-high on subjective well-being; and all 10 Latin American countries except Peru also rank high or medium-high. All 25 ex-communist countries except Vietnam, Slovenia and Czech Republic are low or medium-low (the median ex-communist country has a negative score); and all ten ex-Soviet countries are Low (eight of the ten have negative scores).

So, it looks like Cuba probably wouldn't have done all that well anyway.