A 2012 survey for the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) found that Guyanese have a life satisfaction level of 70.7% – higher than Trinidad and Jamaica – and a research paper on the findings said that while corruption victims report lower levels of happiness there was no evidence that perceiving a government as corrupt had an impact on the figure.
Guyana – ranked 18th out of 24 countries – and several other Caricom countries featured in this LAPOP survey and a series of earlier ones. The life satisfaction of Guyanese was ahead of Trinidad and Tobago at 68.2%, Jamaica at 63.4%, Suriname at 63.2% and Haiti, bottom of the table at 54.8%. Guyana was however behind Belize which registered 72.3%.
Top of the table was Costa Rica and Panama at 85.7% while Venezuela was third at 85.1% and Brazil was