According to the Freakonomics blog on the New York Times web site:

According to the Freakonomics blog on the New York Times web site:

Which Americans are the “happiest” (as defined by wellbeing measures)? Asian-Americans living in New Jersey, according to the American Human Development Project. A newly released report finds that “New Jersey Asian Americans live, on average, an astonishing 26 years longer, are 11 times more likely to have a graduate degree, and earn $35,610 more per year than South Dakota Native Americans.” African-Americans, in contrast, have a life expectancy equivalent to the average American’s life expectancy three decades ago. Nationwide, Native Americans score the lowest on the American Human Development Index.

If you’re white, you might want to move to Washington, DC.

Washington, D.C. offered the highest level of human development among whites. “Whites in D.C. live about seven years longer, earn more than twice the annual wages, and are five times more likely to have completed college than their West Virginia counterparts,” the state where whites’ well-being was ranked the lowest, according to the report.

Here are some other interesting facts from the report:

–Asian Americans live the longest (86.6 years)
-African American life expectancy today is on par with that of the average American life span three decades ago
-Latinos outlive whites, on average, by over four years, and in all but four states
-Whites were most likely to complete high school – nine out of 10 did so. Latinos had the lowest completion rate
-One in two Asian American adults has earned at least a bachelor’s degree
-Virtually all white adults, 98%, in D.C. have completed at least high school
-In Alaska, only about one in twenty Native Americans and Alaska Natives have earned a bachelor’s degree