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World Happiness Report 2020
The United Nations Unveiled Their 2020 Global Happiness Report
Every year the United Nations publishes a World Happiness Report containing a list of the happiest countries in the world. Can you guess which countries made the top of the list?
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As the world continues to grapple with the Covid-19 pandemic, the United Nations has released its annual World Happiness Report. And (not surprisingly) for the 4th year in a row, Finland has been ranked as the happiest country in the world.
This report ranks 149 countries around the world based on the satisfaction of their citizens. This year's report focused on the pandemic and how the population is experiencing it, with the following variables:
GDP per capita
Freedom
Trust
Healthy life expectancy
Social support
Generosity
In the top 10 of this ranking are the following countries:
1. Finland
2. Denmark
3. Switzerland
4. Iceland
5. The Netherlands
6. Norway
7. Sweden
8. Luxembourg
9. New Zealand
10. Austria.
Of course, as 2020 has been a very difficult year for everyone, the researchers also looked at that, but they found only small changes in the responses of the residents to estimate their own level of happiness. Unfortunately, factors such as fear and uncertainty have increased due to the corona crisis, but the general well-being of the population has not decreased to a great extent.
The authors of the study explain this, among other things, by the fact that the pandemic is perceived as "a threat that harms everyone and which has in fact led to increased solidarity and empathy".