He World Happiness Report It is based on different evaluations that people themselves make about their situation in the country, added to different social indicators. In this new edition of the list, which was created in 2012, the determining factors that were contemplated to measure, throughout the world, “Happiness levels” are: social support, income, health, freedom, generosity and absence of corruption.
Finland was chosen as the country “Most happy in the world” for the sixth consecutive year and the Argentina it climbed five points in the ranking compared to the previous year, ranking 52nd worldwide. This statistic prepared by the United Nations Organization is disseminated on March 20 of each year, within the framework of the International Day of Happiness.
Thus, the Nordic country topped the ranking as the “happiest country in the world”, followed by Denmark, Iceland, Israel (which climbed five places) and the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Luxembourg, New Zealand and Austria that complete the Top 10. In the UN Happiness Index, once again the countries of the northern Europe “as the happiest nations”.
Meanwhile, the first Latin American country in the ranking is Costa Ricain position 23, followed by Uruguay, in position 28, and Chili, on site 35. According to its authors, this year’s Happiness Report shows that despite “several overlapping crises,” most populations around the world remain “remarkably resilient.”
In this sense, the global averages of satisfaction with life in the years of the pandemic by Covid-19 (2020-2022) were “as high” as those of the years before the pandemic. However, they warned that in many cases happiness “is distributed unevenly” within countries, so the report inquires into “the happiness gap between the upper and lower halves of the population” of a country. , reported the AFP news agency.
While, Afghanistan and Lebanon, also “devastated by the war”, they remained at the bottom of the classification, in the framework of “a worsening of the humanitarian crisis”. The report is published every March 20, with the aim that its results are a contribution to support public and private policies to help promote happiness and well-being.
by RN
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