And you are here why?

Well, technically, this is the Global Burden of Depressive Disorders , and is part of a study that was conducted by researchers in Queensland .  The maps below have some fairly interesting (and sometimes unexpected?) findings: Afghanistan, Algeria, Libya and Syria do very  poorly Australia, China, Japan, Mexico and New Zealand do  very  well Finland and Norway do poorly, but Sweden is doing just fine. Russia does quite poorly The war zones I completely understand - you'd have  to be depressed. Japan and Mexico are somewhat surprising, as well as China - anyone care to comment? As for the northern countries, Finland and Norway I'd put down to the long winters, but that really doesn't explain Sweden doing so well...

HelpAge  now has The Global AgeWatch Index , which ranks countries by how well their ageing populations are faring. It is based on four domains that are key enablers of older people's wellbeing: income, health, employment and education, and enabling environment. It basically looks at the quality of life for (89% of) the world's population across the 91 measured countries. The Best? Sweden of course The Worst? Afghanistan... Mind you, this assumes that you get to Retire :-) Go there to get the gory details , or check out the interactive map below