India Is Not Happy? Ranks 136th In World Happiness Report: Check World’s Happiest Countries In 2022

The United Nations has recently released its 10th annual World Happiness Report, and on the event of the International Day of Happiness on March 20, Trak.in will be covering the top 20 happiest countries in the world (as per the report) and what makes them so.

For the fifth consecutive year, the happiest country in the world has been awarded to Finland, despite the country sharing one of its borders with Russia, which is ranked towards the unhappiest countries in the world, at the 80th position.

Before getting into the details of understanding the parameters and techniques used by the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Solutions Network for synthesizing the list of happiest countries in the world, let’s have a look at the 20 happiest countries.

World’s Top 20 Happiest Countries In Order

• Finland
• Denmark
• Iceland
• Switzerland
• Netherlands
• Luxembourg
• Sweden
• Norway
• Israel
• New Zealand
• Austria
• Australia
• Ireland
• Germany
• Canada
• United States
• United Kingdom
• Czech Republic
• Belgium
• France

The unhappiest country in the world is Afghanistan, followed by Lebanon, Zimbabwe, Rwanda and Botswana.

Details On The UN Report

The UN’s World Happiness Report uses global survey data from people living over 150 countries. The current one is the 10th edition of this report, the ‘World Happiness Report 2022’.

Released each year, the report takes under account, the data ranking from the Gallup World Poll, along with a number of other factors like GDP levels and life expectancy, among others.

In 2022, the report focused majorly on these parameters:

• looking back,
• looking at how people and countries are doing in Covid-19, and
• looking ahead to how the science of well-being is likely to evolve in the future.

According to researchers, the reason Finland is the happiest country has a lot to do with how its institutions take care of their people, which reflects high ratings of life satisfaction in their people.

Other important factors contributing to this include the country’s smart urban planning, access to green spaces to reduce stress and promote physical activity, an effective system of progressive taxation and strong healthcare and education systems, cited a Forbes report.