Swedes have fewer money concerns than people from any other European country, according to the latest major report on global well-being. In a new global poll on happiness and well-being, Danes are knocked off their perch as ‘the happiest people in the world’ by the residents of Panama and Costa Rica.

Pollsters asked Swedes if they had enough money to do everything they wanted and if they had been worried about money over the past seven days.
The results suggested that 72 percent of people in Sweden were "thriving in financial well-being", nearly double the European average of 37 percent.

The findings - which were outlined in a report by pollsters Gallup for their latest Gallup-Heathways global well-being index - come despite Sweden's unemployment rate. This was 9 percent at the time the survey was conducted in 2013 and is currently 7.9 percent. Sweden also has higher youth unemployment than any other Nordic nation.

The study pointed to Sweden's family-friendly labour laws and flexible parental-leave policies as one reason for the high ranking, allowing new mothers to remain financially stable and engaged in their careers.

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