India The World Happiness Report ranks 136th in 2022, while Finland has become the happiest country for the fifth year in a row. The top five countries on the list are part of Europe. While the United States ranked 16th in the list of happiest countries.
Denmark finished second, followed by Finland, while Iceland and Switzerland finished third and fourth. The Netherlands was ranked fifth on the list. Meanwhile, Luxembourg, Norway, Israel and New Zealand were the remaining countries in the top 10.
On the other hand, Afghanistan is ranked 146th on the list, followed by Lebanon (145th), Zimbabwe (144th), Rwanda (143rd) and Botswana (142nd).
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the World Happiness Report. Reported measurements of subjective well-being rely on three main well-being indicators: life evaluations, positive emotions, and negative emotions (described in the report as positive and negative affect). Happiness rankings are based on a life assessment as a more stable measure of people’s quality of life.
Also, in the World Happiness Report 2022, specific daily emotions (the components of positive and negative affect) were given special attention to better understand how COVID-19 has changed various aspects of life.
“Finland occupies the top spot, one of five Nordic countries in the top ten,” said the World Happiness Report.
After the top ten countries, the following five are Austria, Australia, Ireland, Germany and Canada. This marks a significant decline for Canada, which was fifth ten years in the First World Happiness Report. In the rest of the top 20, the United States is ranked 16th (up from 19th last year), the United Kingdom and Czechia are still ranked 17th and 18th, followed by Belgium at 19th and France at 20th, the highest ranking ever.
The report said that “over the past ten years, life ratings increased by more than a full point on a scale of 0 to 10 in 15 countries and declined by that amount or more in eight countries.”
According to the report, the ten highest gainers from 2008-2012 to 2019-2021 were Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Togo, Bahrain, Latvia, Benin, Guinea and Armenia respectively. The ten countries with the largest drops were Lebanon, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Jordan, Zambia, India, Mexico and Botswana.
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