Finland has excessive scores in elements used to measure happiness.

Finland has been named the happiest nation on this planet within the annual World Happiness Report. That is the sixth consecutive 12 months that they’ve gained the coveted prize resulting from excessive scores in elements the report makes use of to measure happiness: GDP per capita, social assist, wholesome life expectancy, freedom, generosity and low corruption. The report was launched on Monday (March 20), which is well known as Worldwide Day of Happiness. India is ranked 125 primarily based on the varied parametres of happiness.

The World Happiness Report is a publication of the UN Sustainable Growth Options Community and relies on world survey information from individuals in additional than 150 nations, stated CNN.

This 12 months’s listing is much like previous rankings with lots of the Nordic nations in prime spots. Whereas Denmark is at quantity 2, Iceland is ranked quantity 3.

“The Nordic nations benefit particular consideration in gentle of their usually excessive ranges of each private and institutional belief. Additionally they had COVID-19 dying charges solely one-third as excessive as elsewhere in Western Europe throughout 2020 and 2021- 27 per 100,000 within the Nordic nations in comparison with 80 in the remainder of Western Europe,” the authors of the report stated within the doc.

Talking to CNN, one of many authors John Helliwell stated, “Benevolence to others, particularly the serving to of strangers, which went up dramatically in 2021, stayed excessive in 2022.”

“Even throughout these tough years, constructive feelings have remained twice as prevalent as damaging ones, and emotions of constructive social assist twice as robust as these of loneliness,” the writer added.

India, one of many quick rising economies, was positioned at quantity 126 within the report, beneath Nepal, China, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Curiously, the Russia-Ukraine warfare prompted a drop within the rankings of each the nations. Whereas Russia is ranked 72, Ukraine is on the 92nd spot.