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]

Since 2024, the report has been published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, in partnership with Gallup, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and an independent editorial board.[3] The editorial board consists of the three founding editors, John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard, and Jeffrey D. Sachs, along with Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Lara Aknin, and Shun Wang.[4]

The report primarily uses data from the Gallup World Poll. As of March 2024, Finland has been ranked the happiest country in the world seven times in a row.[5][6][7][8][9]

  1. ^ "FAQ". worldhappiness.report. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
  2. ^ "Home". worldhappiness.report.
  3. ^ "New publishing partnership for World Happiness Report". worldhappiness.report. 2024-02-12. Retrieved 2024-05-10.
  4. ^ "About". worldhappiness.report. Retrieved 2024-05-10.
  5. ^ Astor, Maggie (March 14, 2018). "Want to Be Happy? Try Moving to Finland". The New York Times. Retrieved March 14, 2018.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ "In a Lamentable Year, Finland Again is the Happiest Country in the World". Sustainable Development Solutions Network. 19 March 2021. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
  8. ^ Hunter, Marnie (18 March 2022). "The world's happiest countries for 2022". CNN. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
  9. ^ Deb, Sopan (20 March 2024). "Led by Its Youth, U.S. Sinks in World Happiness Report". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 March 2024.