Finland ranked world's happiest country for seventh year
Finland ranked world's happiest country for seventh year
The annual World Happiness Report has again ranked Finland and other Scandinavian countries the most cheerful nations on Earth. Costa Rica and Kuwait entered the top 20 in place of the United States and Germany.
The annual World Happiness Report has again ranked Finland and other Scandinavian countries the most cheerful nations on Earth. Costa Rica and Kuwait entered the top 20 in place of the United States and Germany.
Finland has remained the happiest country in the world for the seventh year a row with nordic neighbors Sweden, Denmark and Iceland also retaining their places in the top 10, according to the annual World Happiness Report published on Wednesday.
But rising unhapiness especially among young people has seen other Western countries drop down the UN-sponsored index, with the United States and Germany dropping out of the top 20 for the first time since the report's first edition more than a decade ago.
Taking their place were Costa Rica and Kuwait at 12 and 13 respectively, while Eastern European countries Serbia, Bulgaria and Latvia reported the biggest increases in happiness.
Afghanistan, plagued by a humanitarian catastrophe since the Taliban regained control in 2020, remained in last place.
I speak with Finns daily. Never once have I ever been under the impression that they are the world's happiest people. This is hilarious.
71I guess we just don't broadcast it as much. But life is good here so it's very easy to be at least content
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No worries, our current right wing government will make sure this will never happen again. I apologize for the incident.
41The Conservative take would be that Americans are unhappy because we are ambitious go-getters who are never satisfied.
33Took the words right out of my brother’s mouth.
10[sigh] Oh, laddie, I remember when I was but a wee lad and satire was possible...
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Ukrainians are less happy than Iranians.
The full list (in reverse order, because the document is weird):
- Afghanistan (1.721)
- Lebanon (2.707)
- Lesotho (3.186)
- Sierra Leone (3.245)
- Congo (Kinshasa) (3.295)
- Zimbabwe (3.341)
- Botswana (3.383)
- Malawi (3.421)
- Eswatini (3.502)
- Zambia (3.502)
- Yemen (3.561)
- Comoros (3.566)
- Tanzania (3.781)
- Ethiopia (3.861)
- Bangladesh (3.886)
- Sri Lanka (3.898)
- Egypt (3.977)
- India (4.054)
- Jordan (4.186)
- Togo (4.214)
- Madagascar (4.228)
- Mali (4.232)
- Liberia (4.269)
- Ghana (4.289)
- Cambodia (4.341)
- Myanmar (4.354)
- Uganda (4.372)
- Benin (4.377)
- Tunisia (4.422)
- Kenya (4.470)
- Chad (4.471)
- Gambia (4.485)
- Mauritania (4.505)
- Burkina Faso (4.548)
- Niger (4.556)
- Pakistan (4.657)
- Morocco (4.795)
- Namibia (4.832)
- Ukraine (4.873)
- Cameroon (4.874)
- State of Palestine (4.879)
- Nigeria (4.881)
- Azerbaijan (4.893)
- Iran (4.923)
- Senegal (4.969)
- Turkiye (4.975)
- Guinea (5.023)
- Ivory Coast (5.080)
- Gabon (5.106)
- Laos (5.139)
- Nepal (5.158)
- Iraq (5.166)
- Georgia (5.185)
- Mozambique (5.216)
- Congo (Brazzaville) (5.221)
- Tajikistan (5.281)
- Albania (5.304)
- Hong Kong S.A.R. of China (5.316)
- Algeria (5.364)
- North Macedonia (5.369)
- South Africa (5.422)
- Armenia (5.455)
- Bulgaria (5.463)
- Indonesia (5.568)
- Venezuela (5.607)
- Colombia (5.695)
- Mongolia (5.696)
- Montenegro (5.707)
- Kyrgyzstan (5.714)
- Ecuador (5.725)
- Bolivia (5.784)
- Russia (5.785)
- Moldova (5.816)
- Mauritius (5.816)
- Dominican Republic (5.823)
- Peru (5.841)
- Jamaica (5.842)
- Libya (5.866)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (5.877)
- Greece (5.934)
- Croatia (5.942)
- Bahrain (5.959)
- Honduras (5.968)
- China (5.973)
- Malaysia (5.975)
- Thailand (5.976)
- Paraguay (5.977)
- Hungary (6.017)
- Portugal (6.030)
- Vietnam (6.043)
- Philippines (6.048)
- South Korea (6.058)
- Japan (6.060)
- Cyprus (6.068)
- Kazakhstan (6.188)
- Argentina (6.188)
- Uzbekistan (6.195)
- Latvia (6.234)
- Slovakia (6.257)
- Brazil (6.272)
- Nicaragua (6.284)
- Guatemala (6.287)
- Italy (6.324)
- Malta (6.346)
- Panama (6.358)
- Chile (6.360)
- Serbia (6.411)
- Spain (6.421)
- Poland (6.442)
- Estonia (6.448)
- El Salvador (6.469)
- Romania (6.491)
- Taiwan Province of China (6.503)
- Singapore (6.523)
- Kosovo (6.561)
- Saudi Arabia (6.594)
- France (6.609)
- Uruguay (6.611)
- Mexico (6.678)
- Germany (6.719)
- United States (6.725)
- United Arab Emirates (6.733)
- Slovenia (6.743)
- United Kingdom (6.749)
- Lithuania (6.818)
- Czechia (6.822)
- Ireland (6.838)
- Belgium (6.894)
- Canada (6.900)
- Austria (6.905)
- Kuwait (6.951)
- Costa Rica (6.955)
- New Zealand (7.029)
- Australia (7.057)
- Switzerland (7.060)
- Luxembourg (7.122)
- Norway (7.302)
- Netherlands (7.319)
- Israel (7.341)
- Sweden (7.344)
- Iceland (7.525)
- Denmark (7.583)
- Finland (7.741)
28Well, if my country was at war, I would not be happy either. Except for some reason, people in Israel.
25Lmao I just looked at the post on Jerboa and it started a numbered list from 143, it should be counting down.
9I'll bet the Israel questionnaire wasn't mailed to Palestinians...
7You would think, spending time here, that America is some hell scape where everyone is miserable and simply fighting to stay alive.
When according to this, Americans are among the happiest in the world.
5I have been living in Botswana for the past two years, and I'm genuinely surprised where it is on this list. Yeah, people here don't have the greatest deal, but there's freaking universal healthcare here. The country has been extremely politically stable since independence. There's no way people are less happy here than those who are in active war zones.
4Surprised by how hiɡh up Mexico is!
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notably finland has one of the best education systems
21True, but there has been a sharp decline in reading and math for two decades.
8So ignorance isn't bliss?
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I imagine that having something in recent history to compare yourself to has a significant impact. So, if there are people that have the USSR in their living memory, and then get to live free, they'll have a little more perspective on how much worse things could be.
Then an American with the 90s in living memory will recall what functional government that even had its budget in the green felt like.
18Finland was never part of the Soviet Union. The highest-ranked country that was is Lithuania at 19th, although 18th-ranked Czechia was on the Soviet side of the Iron Curtain
24i remember not suffering under the surveillance state.
12People have been talking about the loss of privacy for decades.
This Peanuts character first appeared in 1963. He's a little boy named '5' whose father changed the family's names to numbers after doing his income tax and being forced to provide tax payer ID, Social Security number, Zip Code, bank account number, and phone number.
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Canada is ranked 58 for people under 30, yet 8 for over 60. It’s a nice place if you can make it that far!
16Those people probably saw their homes rise in value 10x over their lifetimes. They're not stuck renting shoeboxes for $2000 a month like the rest of us.
22Yeah my parents are sitting pretty from buying just after the 2008 crash. It's too bad I was busy being a kid, there's no hope for me now.
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Over 60 has all the wealth, obviously they're happy.
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It's because they have no natural predators. Everyone else running scared
5Did they really interview a statistically respective portion of the ivory coast to get this almost worthless metric? Seems a huge amount of resources which could have gone somewhere useful if so.
3This is the best summary I could come up with:
Taking their place were Costa Rica and Kuwait at 12 and 13 respectively, while Eastern European countries Serbia, Bulgaria and Latvia reported the biggest increases in happiness.
Afghanistan, plagued by a humanitarian catastrophe since the Taliban regained control in 2020, remained in last place.
Previous research into wellbeing often found happiness to be highest in childhood and early teens, before falling in middle age and then rising again upon retirement.
"Youth, especially in North America, are experiencing a mid-life crisis today," said University of Oxford economics professor and report editor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve.
He associated the increasing unhappiness among western youth with a range of factors including the negative aspects of social media, increased polarization over social issues, and economic inequality that made it harder for young people to afford their own homes than in the past.
"Finnish society is permeated by a sense of trust, freedom, and high level of autonomy," she said, adding that Finns' strong welfare society, trust in state authorities, low levels of corruption and free healthcare and education were also key.
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3Finland? huh. I'd have thought Monaco or maybe Sweden
1Yo, Netherlands at number 7, right below Israel!
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