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World Happiness Report 10th anniversary 2022: “acts of kindness”, balance and harmony in difficult times
The world’s happiest countries for 2022
For the fifth year in a row, Finland is the world’s happiest country, according to World Happiness Report rankings based largely on life evaluations from the Gallup World Poll.
The Nordic country and its neighbors Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland all score very well on the measures the report uses to explain its findings: healthy life expectancy, GDP per capita, social support in times of trouble, low corruption and high social trust, generosity in a community where people look after each other and freedom to make key life decisions.
Denmark comes in at No. 2 in this year’s rankings, followed by Iceland at No. 3. Sweden and Norway are seventh and eighth, respectively.
Switzerland, the Netherlands and Luxembourg take places 4 through 6, with Israel coming in at No. 9 and New Zealand rounding out the top 10.
Canada (No. 15), the United States (No. 16) and the United Kingdom (No. 17) all made it into the top 20.
Mapped: International Happiness Ranges in 2022
Happiness ranges depend upon a variety of components, together with one’s monetary safety, perceptions of social assist, emotions of non-public freedom, and far more. This map pulls information from the World Happiness Report back to uncover the common happiness scores of 146 nations. It exhibits common scores from 2019 to 2021, and highlights which nations are the happiest—or unhappiest—and why.
World Happiness Report Shows Bright Spots in Dark Times
But this year’s World Happiness Report — released on Friday — shows these tough times have led to more people helping others. And this surge in benevolence may actually end up making the world a happier place in the long run.
The annual report, which relies heavily on Gallup World Poll data, documents strong growth in three “acts of kindness” during the pandemic: helping strangers, volunteering time to organizations and donating money to charities. The percentages of people who said they engaged in these activities increased in every part of the world — exceeding their pre-pandemic levels by almost 25%.
In addition to looking at happiness, benevolence and trust during the pandemic, the latest report reveals its current list of the world’s happiest countries, looks back on the past decade of happiness research and offers new insights from the first global survey of balance and harmony.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the World Happiness Report, which uses global survey data to report how people evaluate their own lives in more than 150 countries worldwide. The World Happiness Report 2022 reveals a bright light in dark times. The pandemic brought not only pain and suffering but also an increase in social support and benevolence. As we battle the ills of disease and war, it is essential to remember the universal desire for happiness and the capacity of individuals to rally to each other’s support in times of great need.
