How happy you are varies, depending not only on what kind of job you have — if you have one — but also where in the world you live.

That's according to the results of the World Happiness Report, released annually to coincide with the United Nation's International Day of Happiness and drawing on data from the Gallup World Poll. In fact, certain jobs have a substantially higher level of happiness, even when taking into account "differences in income and education as well as a number of other demographic variables like age, gender, and marital status," the authors write.

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