Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Most and Least Contented Countries; The 20 Most Contented Countries; Australia; Bahamas; Botswana; Canada; Chile; Costa Rica; Denmark; Estonia; Japan; Netherlands; New Zealand; Norway; Oman; Senegal; Seychelles; Singapore; Sweden; Switzerland; Tunisia; Uruguay; The 20 Least Contented Countries; Afghanistan; Cambodia; Democratic Republic of the Congo; El Salvador; Equatorial Guinea; France; Greece; Haiti; Honduras; Liberia; Maldives; Mauritania; North Korea; Russia; Saudi Arabia; Sudan; Syria.

TurkmenistanUganda; Yemen; Chapter 2: The Most and Least Contented World Cities; The 20 Most Contented World Cities; Accra, Ghana; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Bangalore, India; Barcelona, Spain; Bogotá, Colombia; Cape Town, South Africa; Copenhagen, Denmark; Curitiba, Brazil; Hamburg, Germany; Helsinki, Finland; L'viv, Ukraine; Melbourne, Australia; Montevideo, Uruguay; Ottawa, Canada; Perth, Australia; Tokyo, Japan; Valparaiso, Chile; Vancouver, Canada; Vienna, Austria; Zürich, Switzerland; The 20 Least Contented World Cities; Aleppo, Syria; Baghdad, Iraq; Beijing, China; Cairo, Egypt.

Caracas, VenezuelaChongqing, China; Ciudad Juarez, Mexico; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Donetsk, Ukraine; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Dzerzhinsk, Russia; Jakarta, Indonesia; Karachi, Pakistan; Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Lagos, Nigeria; Marseille, France; Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea; Sochi, Russia; Ürümqi, China; Venice, Italy; Chapter 3: The Most and Least Contented U.S. States and Cities; The 5 Most Contented U.S. States; Colorado; Hawaii; Minnesota; New Hampshire; Oregon; The 5 Least Contented U.S. States; Arizona; Louisiana; Mississippi; New Jersey; Texas.

The 10 Most Contented U.S. CitiesAustin, Texas; Boulder, Colorado; Burlington, Vermont; Charleston, South Carolina; Des Moines, Iowa; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Provo, Utah; San Francisco, California; Seattle, Washington; The 10 Least Contented U.S. Cities; Atlantic City, New Jersey; Beaumont-Port Arthur, Texas; Camden, New Jersey; Detroit, Michigan; Flint, Michigan; Memphis, Tennessee; Niagara Falls, New York; Phoenix, Arizona; St. Louis, Missouri; Stockton, California; APPENDIX A: Summaries of Country Rankings.

Table A1: Human Development Index, 2014 Report, Data for 2013Table A2: Overall Life Expectancy by Country, 2012; Table A3: Infant Mortality Rate, Estimates for 2013; Table A4: WHO Ranking of Health Systems, 2000; Table A5: Gross Domestic Product (at Purchasing Power Parity) per Capita; Table A6: Legatum Prosperity Index, 2014; Table A7: World's Lowest Literacy Rates by Country, 2013; Table A8: Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, 2014; Table A9: Index of Economic Freedom, 2015; Table A10: Democracy Index, 2014; Table A11: World Press Freedom Index, 2014.