동북아 4개 국가의 행복지수 비교

Abstract

This paper analyzes the change of happiness level in Northeast Asian four countries, Korea, Japan, China and Russia from 1990 to 2020. On the base of previous research, to estimate the national level happiness index, this paper modified the previous happiness index. This happiness index simultaneously considers the subject aspect and the object aspect. In particular, we mixed the subjective index and the objective index in three level index, and improved the methodology. This paper uses the WVS data to estimate the subjective happiness index. The result finds that Korea and Japan more higher than China and Russia in happiness index. Especially, from the dynamic change of the happiness index, Korea and Japan reveals the inversed U type, China and Russia reveals U type. This result explain that the happiness level of Korea and Japan gradually decreased in recent, but China and Russia gradually increased. This trend more remarkable in subjective happiness index. In wave 7 period, the subjective happiness index of China most high. But the objective happiness index of Korea and China decreased, Japan and Russia on the contrary increased. The result of this paper similar the Easterlin paradox, because the PPP per capita GDP of Korea and China already exceeded forty thousand dollars in wave 7 period, the income level is high, and the income level of China and Russia relatively low, be the left side of the inversed U type, Easterlin paradox.