When Lithuania was ranked by the World Happiness Report as the happiest place in the world for young people, I was actually shocked.
(According to the OECD's most recent data, Lithuania has Europe's highest suicide rate, with 20.3 deaths by suicide per 100,000 people.)
And although Lithuania isn't Denmark, where I briefly lived and thought it was such a clean and perfect country, I'm still happy to live here.
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