HAPPIEST NATION
The World
Happiness Report is an publication of the United Nation Sustainable
Development Soultions Network. The Report ranks 156 countries by how happy
their citizens perceive themselves to be.
The ranking are based on polling.
And the Report primarily uses data from the Gallup World Poll. (Gallup
company is an American analytics and advisory company based in Washington, D.C.
Founded by George Gallup in 1935, which conducts opinion polls worldwide taking
sample of 2,000 to 3,000).
HISTORY
In
July 2011, the UN General Assembly adopted resolution 65/309 Happiness:
Towards a Holistic Definition of Development inviting member countries to
measure the happiness of their people and to use the data to help guide public
policy. On April 2, 2012, this was followed by first UN High Level Meeting
called Wellbeing and Happiness: Defining a New Economic Paradigm, which was
chaired by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and PM Jigme Thinley of Bhutan, a
nation that adopted gross national happiness instead of gross domestic product
as their main development indicator. The First World Happiness Report was
released on April 1, 2012.Since issued on an annual basis with the exception of
2014.
Keeping this variables/categories as
measuring tool, the ranking is stated:
- GDP per capita
- Social Support
- Health life expectancy
- Freedom
- Generosity
- Absence of corruption
This time the report was
released on 20th march, 2020. The reason behind releasing on this particular
date is "March 20 was designated as the World Happiness Day by the UN
General Assembly in 2012. For the first time ranked cities around the
world by their subjective well-being and looked into how social, urban &
natural environments combine to affect happiness. Measuring happiness at
times like these might across as strange but the editors have opposing
opinions.
TOP
PERFORMERS
- Finland is ranked as the world's happiest nation for
the third consecutive year with score of 7.809.
- Second-Denmark, Third-Switzerland, Fourth-Iceland,
Fifth-Norway.
- Nordic states dominate the top 10.
- Luxembourg edged into the 10th spot for the first time
this year.
- Cities are ranked for the first time; the happiest city
in the world is Helsinki (Finland). Second spot Aarhus (Denmark). The top
10 is dominated by Scandinavian cities.
WORST
PERFORMERS
- The countries at the bottom are those afflicted by
violent conflicts and extreme poverty.
- Zimbabwe, South Sudan & Afghanistan - the world's
least happy nations.
- The biggest life evaluation drops were in Venezuela and
Afghanistan.
- World's unhappiest city is Kabul (Afghanistan), Second
spot Sanaa (Yemen).
INDIA'S
PERFORMANCE
- Previously ranked at 140 dropped to 144 with score of
3.573. In 2018, India was at 133 position. In 2017-122 position, 2016- 118
position & 2015 at 117 spot. India's large and steady decline in life
evaluation scores since 2015
- Rank way lower than its neighbours. Pakistan is at 66,
Nepal at 92, China at 94, Bangladesh at 107 and Sri Lanka at 130.
- India is a new entrant to the bottom-fifteen group.
Times of India quoted the report saying with the increase in population,
the overall happiness has dropped worldwide.
- Delhi is in 7 position in World's Unhappiest Cities.
WORLD'S 20 HAPPIEST COUNTRIES
- Finland
- Denmark
- Switzerland
- Iceland
- Norway
- Netherlands
- Sweden
- New Zealand
- Austria
- Luxembourg
- Canada
- Australia
- United Kingdom
- Israel
- Costa Rica
- Ireland
- Germany
- United States
- Czech Republic
- Belgium
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