World Happiness Report

Worldwide levels of happiness as measured by the World Happiness Report (2023).

The World Happiness Report is a publication that contains articles and rankings of national happiness, based on respondent ratings of their own lives,[1] which the report also correlates with various (quality of) life factors.[2] As of March 2024, Finland has been ranked the happiest country in the world seven times in a row.[3][4][5][6][7]

From 2024, the report is a publication of the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford.[8] Until then, the report was a publication of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, a global initiative of the United Nations.[9] The report primarily uses data from the Gallup World Poll. Each annual report is available to the public to download on the World Happiness Report website.[2] The editors of the 2023 report are John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Lara Aknin, and Shun Wang.

  1. ^ "FAQ". worldhappiness.report. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
  2. ^ a b "Home". worldhappiness.report.
  3. ^ Astor, Maggie (March 14, 2018). "Want to Be Happy? Try Moving to Finland". The New York Times. Retrieved March 14, 2018.
  4. ^ Pullella, Philip (March 14, 2018). "Finland Is World's Happiest Country, U.S. Discontent Grows: U.N. Report". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved March 14, 2018.
  5. ^ "In a Lamentable Year, Finland Again is the Happiest Country in the World". Sustainable Development Solutions Network. 19 March 2021. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
  6. ^ Hunter, Marnie (18 March 2022). "The world's happiest countries for 2022". CNN. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
  7. ^ Deb, Sopan (20 March 2024). "Led by Its Youth, U.S. Sinks in World Happiness Report". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
  8. ^ "World Happiness Report". World Happiness Report.
  9. ^ "World Happiness Report". World Happiness Report.