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The 2019 World Happiness Report focuses community. According to the 2019 Happiness Report, Finland is the happiest country in the world, [34] with Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and The Netherlands holding the next top positions. The second chapter of the report, 'Changing World Happiness', measures year-to-year changes in happiness across countries.
While Lithuania ranked 19th this year on the overall list, among respondents under 30, it was the No. 1 happiest country in 2024. For those over 60, Lithuania came in at No. 44.
The US at 23 and Germany at 24 dropped out of the top 20 partly because of a rise in happiness scores in countries like Czechia at 18, Lithuania at 19, and Slovenia at 21. The UK is at 20.
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 Satisfaction with Life Index was created in 2007 by Adrian G. White, an analytic social psychologist at the University of Leicester, using data from a metastudy. [1] It is an attempt to show life satisfaction in different nations.
Finland once again topped the list of happiest countries, while the U.S. had a significant drop. ... Canada also dropped on the happiness list, from 13 last year to 15 this year.
Each year, the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network produces the World Happiness Report, a list that determines which countries in the world are the happiest. In the annual ...
It may help explain why the U.S. dropped out of the top 20 happiest countries for the first time, ranking 23rd compared to 15th a year prior. “The U.S. decline is at least partly attributable to ...