It is always happy hour in Helsinki! Finland was dubbed the world’s happiest nation for the sixth consecutive year in the annual World Happiness Report, released Monday. The list is largely b…
Of the 137 countries ranked , Afghanistan was considered the least happy nation, with Lebanon Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe and Democratic Republic of Congo close behind in misery.
Although some say money can’t buy happiness, the lack of it can be a big factor. Finland’s poverty rate was 12%, compared to 18% in the US, according to the report. The poverty rate in Afghanistan was 55%.War-torn Ukraine came in at 108th on the list “despite the magnitude of suffering and damage” the country experienced in the past year, the study said.
Ukraine’s “life evaluations in September 2022 remained higher than in the aftermath of the 2014 annexation, supported now by a stronger sense of common purpose, benevolence, and trust in Ukrainian leadership,” it continued., many people enjoyed healthy levels of “trust, benevolence, and social connections,” the study found.
“Average happiness and our country rankings, for emotions as well as life evaluations, have been remarkably stable during the three COVID-19 years,” study author John Helliwell, said in a statement “Even during these difficult years, positive emotions have remained twice as prevalent as negative ones, and feelings of positive social support twice as strong as those of loneliness.”Share this article:
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