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Finland holds the rank of the happiest country in the world for the third consecutive year. [32] It is followed by Denmark, Switzerland, Iceland and Norway. Afghanistan received the lowest score, with South Sudan and Zimbabwe just above it. [33] In addition to country rankings, this is the first year that the World Happiness Report ranks cities.
Finland held on to its top ranking as the world’s happiest country for the seventh year while the US and Germany dropped out of the top 20, according to an annual UN-sponsored index.
The World Happiness Report is out, and once again Nordic countries are humming along with the highest scores. The No. 1 country, Finland, has held onto its top ranking for seven years straight.
The U.S. drops to 23 on the list of the world’s happiest countries as one age group in particular reports ‘feeling worse about their lives’ Alexa Mikhail March 19, 2024 at 5:01 PM
In this calculation, subjective well-being correlates most strongly with health (.7), wealth (.6), and access to basic education (.6). [2] [3] This is an example of directly measuring happiness—asking people how happy they are—as an alternative to traditional measures of policy success such as GDP or GNP. Some studies suggest that happiness ...
Finland takes the crown as the happiest country in the world for the seventh consecutive year. Today's annual World Happiness Report ranks self-reported happiness scores for nearly 150,000 people ...
For the 2012 ranking, 151 countries were compared, and the best scoring country for the second time in a row was Costa Rica, followed by Vietnam, Colombia, Belize and El Salvador. The lowest ranking countries in 2012 were Botswana, Chad and Qatar. [6] [7] In 2016, out of 140 countries, Costa Rica topped the index for the third time in a row. [8]
The happiest country is Finland, followed by neighboring nations Denmark, Iceland and Sweden. Israel, The Netherlands, Norway, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Australia round out the top 10.