This Wednesday the list of the World Happiness Report 2024, in which Finland stands as the country that leads this classification, in which it also Mexico It stands out as the happiest in Latin America, ranking 25th.
The report is based on surveys carried out in 143 nations and whose publication coincides with the International Day of Happiness, celebrated every March 20.is focused for the first time on the analysis of happiness in the various stages of life, as highlighted by Efe.
In this classification, Venezuela occupies position number 79.being the least happy country in Latin America. The regional ranking is led by Mexico, followed by Uruguay (26), El Salvador (33), Chile (38), Panama (39), Guatemala (42), Nicaragua (43), Brazil (44), Argentina (48), Paraguay (57), Honduras (61), Peru (68), Dominican Republic (69), Bolivia (73), Ecuador (74) and Colombia (78).
The authors of this report claim that traditionally Happiness can be associated with youth and it is thought that old age is a less happy stage of life, However, current reality refutes these ideas.
Notably, from 2006-2010, happiness in the 15- to 24-year-old age group has dropped markedly in North America,”to the point that the young are less happy than the old”and has also fallen into that group, although less abruptly, in Western Europe, the report says.
Otherwise, happiness at all ages has grown considerably in Europe, so that now young people are equally happy in both parts of the world.”
In the countries of the former Soviet Union and East Asia, there has been a large increase in happiness at various ages, while in South Asia and the Middle East and North Africa, on the contrary, there has been fallen.
As far as the USA, It is the first time in more than a decade that the North American nation is not located in the top 20 of the happiest countries in the world, this as a consequence of the decrease in the perception of happiness of its young people.
According to the results presented by the World Happiness Report 2024, it ranks 23rd, while in last year’s edition it ranked 15th.
Meanwhile, Spain, which in 2021 was in 24th place, in 2022 in 29th and in 2023 in 32nd, moves to 36th in 2024.
The report highlights that, in contrast, there are countries that show significant increases in evaluations and highlights the case of Serbia, in 37th place, and Bulgaria, in 81st, which have climbed, respectively, 69 and 63 positions since the edition. of 2013.
“The ten countries at the top of the list remain practically the same since before the covid pandemic”, highlights the report.
Finland, which has been in the number one spot for seven years, is closely followed by Denmark and then Iceland, Sweden, Israel, the Netherlands, Norway, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Australia.
The last are Afghanistan (143), Lebanon (142), Lesotho (141), Sierra Leone (140), Democratic Republic of the Congo (139), Zimbabwe (138), Botswana (137), Malawi (136), Eswatini (135 ) and Zambia (134).
Russia and Ukraine, facing each other since 2022 in a war with no signs of a solution for now, are in 72nd and 105th place, respectively.
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