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THESE ARE THE WORLD’S HAPPIEST COUNTRIES IN 2024
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9. Switzerland: Switzerland drops one rung from No. 8 last year. Pictured: the
Schweizerhofquai lakeshore of Lake Lucerne in Lucerne.
Olaf Protze/Alamy Stock Photo
10. Australia: Australia and the Netherlands are the only countries in the top
10 with populations over 15 million. Pictured: Sydney Opera House and Harbour
Bridge in Sydney
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1. Finland: For the seventh consecutive year, Finland is the world's happiest
country, according to the 2024 World Happiness Report. Pictured: Helsinki
Cathedral in Finland's capital city
LeoPatrizi/E+/Getty Images
2. Denmark: Denmark comes in at No. 2 in the latest ranking. The Nordic
countries routinely appear in the top 10. Pictured: Kongens Nytorv in
Copenhagen's old town
Ole Jensen/Getty Images
3. Iceland: Iceland retained its No. 3 ranking in the 2024 edition of the
report. Pictured: The shopping district and the Evangelical-Lutheran church
Hallgrimskirkja in Reykjavik
Richard Green/Alamy Stock Photo
4. Sweden: The annual ranking is based on a life evaluation score submitted by
participants in each country. Pictured: The great square (Stortorget) in
Stockholm's Gamla Stan
Michael Robinson/Corbis Documentary RF/Getty Images
5. Israel: Israel has been in the top 10 since 2022. The score is based on the
average of three years of life evaluations. The latest was collected after the
October 7 Hamas attack but before much of the subsequent warfare. Pictured: Tel
Aviv
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6. Netherlands: The Netherlands dropped one place from fifth in 2023 to sixth in
the latest ranking. Pictured: Keukenhof Gardens complex in Lisse
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7. Norway: No. 7 Norway rounds out the five Nordic countries in the top 10.
Pictured: Reine fishing village on Lofoten Islands
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8. Luxembourg: Luxembourg moves up one rung from its No. 9 spot in 2023.
Pictured: Luxembourg City
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9. Switzerland: Switzerland drops one rung from No. 8 last year. Pictured: the
Schweizerhofquai lakeshore of Lake Lucerne in Lucerne.
Olaf Protze/Alamy Stock Photo
10. Australia: Australia and the Netherlands are the only countries in the top
10 with populations over 15 million. Pictured: Sydney Opera House and Harbour
Bridge in Sydney
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1. Finland: For the seventh consecutive year, Finland is the world's happiest
country, according to the 2024 World Happiness Report. Pictured: Helsinki
Cathedral in Finland's capital city
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2. Denmark: Denmark comes in at No. 2 in the latest ranking. The Nordic
countries routinely appear in the top 10. Pictured: Kongens Nytorv in
Copenhagen's old town
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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.
This year’s report is the first to include separate rankings by age group, and
it brings bad news about life satisfaction among young people in some parts of
the world.
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Happiness has dropped so sharply among the young in North America that young
people there are now less happy than the old. Those low scores helped push the
United States out of the top 20 on the overall list for the first time since the
report was first published in 2012.
But the US and other countries dropping in rank was also because other nations –
especially several in Eastern Europe – had welcome gains in happiness.
THE HAPPIEST COUNTRIES
Finland is once again the world’s happiest country.
That’s according to the annual report that marks the United Nations
International Day of Happiness on March 20.
The report draws on global survey data from people in more than 140
countries. Countries are ranked on happiness based on their average life
evaluations over the three preceding years, in this case 2021 to 2023. The
report is a partnership of Gallup, the Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre, the UN
Sustainable Development Solutions Network and an editorial board.
Finland is the world's happiest country for the seventh year in a row. Helsinki
is pictured.
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The cool-weather nation of Finland — where the northern lights dance in winter
and the summer sun can shine all night long — has a lot figured out when it
comes to the right social conditions for happiness.
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.
“And you find out Finland’s pretty rich in all of those things, like wallets
being returned if they’re dropped in the street, people helping each other day
in and day out, very high quality and universally distributed health and
education opportunities — so everyone more or less comes out of the starting
gate the same,” he said.
He also noted that Finland has happy immigrants, “so it’s something that they’re
prepared to share with newcomers.”
The report looks at six key variables to help explain life evaluations: GDP per
capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom, generosity and
perceptions of corruption.
Finland’s Nordic neighbors also earned reliably high scores with Denmark (No.
2), Iceland (No. 3) and Sweden (No. 4) in the top five, and Norway (No. 7)
comfortably ranking in the top 10.
Given the war with Hamas, Israel may come as a surprise at No. 5, although the
country has been in the top 10 since 2022. The report’s authors point out that
its rankings are based on a three-year average, which often mutes the effect of
“cataclysmic events happening during a particular year.”
And the timing of the survey obviously plays a role when there’s a crisis. The
survey in Israel was conducted after the Hamas attack on October 7, but before
much of the ensuing warfare. So while life evaluations fell sharply, those
scores only accounted for a third of the average.
The report, which relies heavily on the Gallup World Poll, also includes a
ranking for Palestine at No. 103, although its statehood is not widely
recognized. The poll was conducted in the Palestinian territories of Gaza and
the West Bank before the events of October 7.
The Netherlands (No. 6), Luxembourg (No. 8), Switzerland (No. 9) and Australia
(No. 10) round out the top 10.
THE UNITED STATES DROPS OUT OF THE TOP 20
The United States (No. 23) and Germany (No. 24) dropped out of the top 20 in
part because of a rise in happiness among other countries — especially Czechia
(No. 18), Lithuania (No. 19) and Slovenia (No. 21). The United Kingdom was No.
20.
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.
In the United States and Canada, happiness scores from people under 30 were
dramatically lower than those from people age 60 and older. Among people under
30, the US ranked at No. 62, while for those 60 and older, it was No. 10. Canada
was No. 58 among the young and No. 8 for those 60 and older.
Australia and New Zealand, to a lesser extent, also saw much lower rankings
among the young.
The United States dropped out of the top 20 in 2024, in part because of low
scores among young people. San Francisco is pictured.
Liu Guanguan/China News Service/VCG/Getty Images
Helliwell said the low scores among the young in those countries aren’t a matter
of less education or lower income or more ill health.
“It’s what they think about their lives. So it’s a mood question,” he said.
Helliwell attributes the drop in part to the information young people in those
four primarily English-speaking nations are consuming.
“They’re hearing news that’s making them unhappy and they may be sharing it and
that may make them unhappy too,” he said.
But it’s not all bad news for young people.
“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.”
Another positive takeaway related to young people: The spike in benevolence
during the pandemic among all generations was especially pronounced among young
people, Helliwell said, and that has endured.
“So that’s encouraging. Despite the fact that in some countries they’re not very
happy, they’re still capable of and willing to engage in benevolent acts for
others. And that gives you hope for the future.”
WORLD’S 20 HAPPIEST COUNTRIES IN 2024
1. Finland
2. Denmark
3. Iceland
4. Sweden
5. Israel
6. Netherlands
7. Norway
8. Luxembourg
9. Switzerland
10. Australia
11. New Zealand
12. Costa Rica
13. Kuwait
14. Austria
15. Canada
16. Belgium
17. Ireland
18. Czechia
19. Lithuania
20. United Kingdom
AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LIST
Afghanistan remains the world’s lowest-ranked country for happiness. Lebanon,
Lesotho, Sierra Leone and Congo also ranked at the bottom.
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