The happiest are between 26 and 35 years old, are married or have a stable partner, have one or two children, do not have money problems at the end of the month and live in Aragon, Catalonia, Navarre or Extremadura. At least that’s what Coca-Cola says in its recent portrait or photograph of happiness in Spain.

The Happiness Report was presented by the Spanish president of this refreshment company, Marcos de Quinto, and the renowned writer Eduardo Punset. It examines the reasons why people are happy or not, given the responses of 3,000 people, as well as the extent to which social, family and economic factors influence it.

Data from the study indicate that being male or female does not condition happiness, but among those who say they are “very happy” more women (59%) than men (41%). And although the old song established the order “health/money/love”, the report puts the main components of happiness in this other order: health (39%), love (32%) and money (17%). This will be a general approach, but age and sex slightly change these preferences. In this way, we are more concerned about the economy as we get younger; and about health as the years go by. Women give more importance to love and men to money, but for everyone health is the main condition to be happy.

Having a partner is also an important factor in being happy: among those who have it, in the survey, eight out of ten say they are very happy and seven out of ten would like to have children. The highest level of happiness occurs in families with three to four members, but at the other extreme only 5% of those who are very happy live. The inhabitants of Autonomous Communities, Aragon, Catalonia, Navarre and Extremadura are the happiest, while the citizens of Asturias, Madrid and Murcia have given more negative answers than the rest.