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.
Finland is the world's happiest country for the seventh year in a row. Helsinki is pictured.
The survey asks each participant to score their life as a whole, considering what they value, said John Helliwell, emeritus professor of economics at the Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia, and a founding editor of the World Happiness Report. Finland’s Nordic neighbours also earned reliably high scores with Denmark , Iceland and Sweden in the top five, and Norway comfortably ranking in the top 10.
The Netherlands , Luxembourg , Switzerland and Australia round out the top 10.The United States and Germany dropped out of the top 20 in part because of a rise in happiness among other countries — especially Czechia , Lithuania and Slovenia . The United Kingdom was No. 20. “They’re hearing news that’s making them unhappy and they may be sharing it and that may make them unhappy too,” he said.“Overall, globally, young people aged 15-24 experienced improved life satisfaction between 2006 and 2019, and stable life satisfaction since then,” the report says. “But the picture varied by region. Youth wellbeing fell in North America, Western Europe, Middle East and North Africa, and South Asia. In the rest of the world it rose.
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