Nigeria's rank in the list of most the emotional countries in the world

A survey of the most emotional in the world, according to an annual survey of daily experiences, has just been released.

Gallup surveyed a range of countries for the breadth of emotions they report on a daily basis.

The Global Emotions 2016 report presents the results from Gallup’s latest measurements of people’s positive and negative daily experiences, based on nearly 147,000 interviews in 2015 with adults in 140 countries.

Positive Experience Index Questions

• Did you feel well-rested yesterday?

• Were you treated with respect all day yesterday?

• Did you smile or laugh a lot yesterday?

• Did you learn or do something interesting yesterday?

• Did you experience the following feelings during a lot of the day yesterday?

The Positive Experience Index score is the mean of all valid affirmative responses to these items multiplied by 100. County-level index scores range from zero to 100. Higher scores mean that positive emotions are more pervasive in a country. These scores strongly relate to people’s perceptions about their living standards, personal freedoms and the presence of social networks.

Negative Experience Index Questions

• Did you experience the following feelings during a lot of the day yesterday?

How about physical pain?

• Did you experience the following feelings during a lot of the day yesterday?

How about worry?

• Did you experience the following feelings during a lot of the day yesterday?

How about sadness?

• Did you experience the following feelings during a lot of the day yesterday?

How about stress?

• Did you experience the following feelings during a lot of the day yesterday?

How about anger?

The Negative Experience Index score is the mean of all valid affirmative responses to these items multiplied by 100. Country-level index scores range from zero to 100. The higher the score, the more pervasive negative emotions are in a country. People’s experiences with health problems and their ability to afford food are predictive of higher negative scores.

One of the criteria created as a result of the survey is one that measures the amount of people in each country who responded 'yes' to all the questions - exhibiting a wide range of emotions.

The amount of people for which this was true was highest in Bolivia and El Salvador (59 per cent), and lowest in Bangladesh (37 per cent).

From the map below, Nigeria ranks between 51 and 53, which is still considered very high.