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- Countries covered: The UN’s seventh annual World Happiness Report ranks the world’s 156 countries on “how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be”.
- Indicators: The report ranks countries on six key variables that support well-being: income, freedom, trust, healthy life expectancy, social support and generosity.
- Released by: The Sustainable Development Solutions Network for the United Nations.
- Released on: March 20, which was designated as the World Happiness Day by the UN General Assembly in 2012.
Key highlights of the report:
- The overall world happiness has fallen over the past few years, which has mostly been fuelled by a sustained drop in India, which has dropped seven spots down from last year.
- There has been an increase in negative emotions, including worry, sadness and anger.
- Finland has been ranked as the happiest country in the world for the second year in succession. Finland is followed by Denmark, Norway, Iceland and The Netherlands.
- People in South Sudan are the most unhappy with their lives, followed by Central African Republic (155), Afghanistan (154), Tanzania (153) and Rwanda (152).
- Indians are not as happy in 2019 as they were in 2018 and the country figures at 140th place, seven spots down from last year.
- Pakistan is ranked 67th, Bangladesh 125th and China is place at 93rd.
