Finland, the happiest country in the world

Another first place for Finland. For the sixth consecutive year, the country has won the gold medal of happiness. Indeed, it is in Finland that the inhabitants are the happiest in the world. The World Happiness Report is a measure of happiness published by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network every year since 2012. To arrive at an overall score, the researchers used GDP, solidarity, individual freedom and corruption.

France ranks 21st in this ranking, for several years Afghanistan has occupied the last place on the annual index. Behind Finland, Denmark is in second place and then Iceland completes the top three. Israel is in fourth position in the ranking, up five from the previous report.

Ukraine in the spotlight

Despite the Ukraine and Covid crises, “various forms of everyday kindness, such as helping a stranger, donating to charity and volunteering, are above pre-pandemic levels” around the world for the second year in a row, it said. said Professor Lara Aknin, another author of the report. In this report, the researchers point out that in Ukraine despite the “extensive suffering and damage” following the Russian invasion in 2022, there is “a sense of common purpose, much stronger” than the day following the annexation of Crimea in 2014 by Russia, underlined Professor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, one of the authors of the report, quoted in a statement.

As he explains, “kindness rose sharply in Ukraine but fell in Russia.” Ukraine went from 98 to 92 since the previous year’s report.

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