article_snippet: A new study has revealed the best places in the world to live, with Paraguay residents saying Paraguay residents are the happiest.
article_snippet: For the first time, the entire top ten of Gallup's Positive Experience Index is from Latin America.
article_snippet: Latin American countries dominated the upper echelons of Gallup's Positive Experience Index.
article_snippet: Above, Colombian girls smile outside Colombian girls home in Buenaventura, despite widespread violence in Buenaventura .
article_snippet: None of the Latin American countries that rank the happiest have Gross Domestic Products in the top 25, according to the World Bank.
article_snippet: The United States (pictured) was the happiest country with a top 10 Gross Domestic Product, tying for 15th with ten other countries.
article_snippet: Top 10 economies ranged in rank from 15th, the US, to 85th, Russia.
article_snippet: Researchers say the results stem from the continent's culture, which tends to focus on the positive.
article_snippet: Little has changed at the top of the chart, with only Denmark falling out of the 10 happiest countries.
highlights_snippet: Latin and Central American countries repeated domination of the top 10 .
  