据了解，痛苦指数是根据通货膨胀水平与失业率这两大最令消费者不快乐的因素而得出的，痛苦指数愈低，该经济体就愈是幸福。
泰国曾在去年5月发生政变，2015年人均GDP预测排名甚至不及最“痛苦”的委内瑞拉，但在统计中，泰国却高居最幸福经济体之首。这部分归因于其异常低的失业率。目前，泰国失业率不足1%，并且尚未引发通胀。
在发达国家中，瑞士成为最幸福的经济体。彭博预计，瑞士今年失业率为3.3%，价格将下降0.9%，对于一个欧洲发达国家而言，这是一个极好消息。
中国大陆今年相对低的通胀和失业率使其成为全球第七“幸福”的经济体，较一年前上升两位。中国大陆1月CPI同比上升已经跌破1%，只上涨0.8%，创2009年1月以来新低。瑞穗证券首席经济学家沈建光称，今年物价走势不容乐观，预计全年CPI涨幅在1.6%左右。
美国排名第八，原因是失业率的持续上升，2月6日，美国劳工统计局发布数据，1月份美国失业率为5.7%，比上月的5.6%略有上升。1月份失业人数898万人，比上月增加29万人。
委内瑞拉成为最痛苦的经济体，预计全年的通胀率将达到78.5%，据外媒报道，由于国内基本生活物品严重短缺，委内瑞拉已经于2月与邻国特立尼达和多巴哥开启用石油换取纸巾的交易。此外，陷入武装冲突和经济危机的乌克兰、希腊、西班牙等欧洲经济体的痛苦指数也较高。（中国进出口网）
According to foreign media reports, Bloomberg News on March 3 local time announced the "misery index" of 51 global economies, Thailand, Switzerland and Japan become the world's happiest economies, China ranked seventh.
It is understood that the misery index is based on the level of inflation and unemployment rates, which are two factors that make most consumers unhappy, the lower the misery index is, the happier the economy feels.
Last May a coup happened in Thailand, moreover, in 2015 predict per capita GDP ranked behind the most "painful" (misery index) Venezuela, but in this statistics, Thailand ranked first in the happiest economy. This is partly due to its exceptionally low unemployment rate. Currently, the unemployment rate is less than 1% in Thailand, and inflation not created.
In developed countries, Switzerland has become the happiest economy entity. Bloomberg expects the Swiss unemployment rate was 3.3 percent this year, prices will fall by 0.9 percent, for a European developed country, this is an excellent message.
This year’s relatively low inflation and unemployment makes Chinese mainland become the world's seventh "happiness" economy entity. Mainland China January CPI rose only 0.8 percent, the lowest record since January 2009. Chen Jianguang, chief economist at Mizuho Securities, said the price trend this year was not optimistic, it was expected that annual CPI will increase by around 1.6%.
United States ranked eighth in terms of misery index, because of rising unemployment rate, on February 6, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics released, the US unemployment rate in January was 5.7%, up slightly from last month's 5.6%. In January unemployment were 8,98 million, an increase of 290 thousand from last month.
Venezuela become the most painful economy entity, the annual inflation rate is expected to reach 78.5 percent, according to foreign media reports, due to a severe shortage of basic domestic life items, Venezuela has exchanged oil for paper towels with its neighboring countries Trinidad and Tobago in February. In addition, the misery index in Ukraine (stuck in armed conflict and economic crisis), Greece, Spain and other European economies is higher.
