Happiness Scale By Country
⚡ ALL INFORMATION CLICK HERE 👈🏻👈🏻👈🏻
Happiness Scale By Country
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Publication of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network
Explained by: Healthy life expectancy
Explained by: Freedom to make life choices
Trust or absence of corruption, as explained by the publicly perceived absence of corruption in government and business [54]
^ Score not included in the original report, but was attained by adding up Europe's scores and then dividing for an average: 6.08044.
^ Score not included in the original report, but was attained by adding up all the scores and then dividing for an average: 5.3053935483871.
^ The political status of Kosovo is disputed. Having unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in 2008, Kosovo is formally recognised as an independent state by 97 UN member states (with another 15 states recognising it at some point but then withdrawing their recognition), while Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory.
^ See the following on statehood criteria:
Mendes, Errol (30 March 2010). "Statehood and Palestine for the purposes of Article 12 (3) of the ICC Statute" (PDF) . 30 March 2010: 28, 33 . Retrieved 2011-04-17 : {{ cite journal }} : Cite journal requires |journal= ( help ) "...the Palestinian State also meets the traditional criteria under the Montevideo Convention..."; "...the fact that a majority of states have recognised Palestine as a State should easily fulfill the requisite state practice".
McKinney, Kathryn M. (1994). "The Legal Effects of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles: Steps Toward Statehood for Palestine" . Seattle University Law Review . Seattle University. 18 (93): 97. Archived from the original on 2011-07-22 . Retrieved 2011-04-17 : "It is possible, however, to argue for Palestinian statehood based on the constitutive theory".
McDonald, Avril (Spring 2009). "Operation Cast Lead: Drawing the Battle Lines of the Legal Dispute" . Human Rights Brief . Washington College of Law, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. 25 . Retrieved 2011-04-17 : "Whether one applies the criteria of statehood set out in the Montevideo Convention or the more widely accepted constitutive theory of statehood, Palestine might be considered a state."
The World Happiness Report is a publication of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network . It contains articles and rankings of national happiness , based on respondent ratings of their own lives, [1] which the report also correlates with various (quality of) life factors. [2] As of March 2022, Finland had been ranked the happiest country in the world five times in a row. [3] [4] [5] [6]
The report primarily uses data from the Gallup World Poll . Each annual report is available to the public to download on the World Happiness Report website. [7] The Editors of the 2020 report are John F. Helliwell , Richard Layard , Jeffrey D. Sachs , and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve . Associate Editors are Lara Aknin , Shun Wang, and Haifang Huang.
In July 2011, the UN General Assembly adopted resolution 65/309 Happiness: Towards a Holistic Definition of Development [8] 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 the first UN High Level Meeting called Wellbeing and Happiness: Defining a New Economic Paradigm , [9] which was chaired by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Prime Minister Jigmi Thinley of Bhutan , a nation that adopted gross national happiness instead of gross domestic product as their main development indicator. [10]
The first World Happiness Report was released on April 1, 2012 as a foundational text for the UN High Level Meeting: Well-being and Happiness: Defining a New Economic Paradigm , [11] drawing international attention. [12] The first report outlined the state of world happiness, causes of happiness and misery, and policy implications highlighted by case studies. In 2013, the second World Happiness Report was issued, and in 2015 the third. Since 2016, it has been issued on an annual basis on the 20th of March, to coincide with the UN's International Day of Happiness. [13]
The rankings of national happiness are based on a Cantril ladder survey. Nationally representative samples of respondents are asked to think of a ladder, with the best possible life for them being a 10, and the worst possible life being a 0. They are then asked to rate their own current lives on that 0 to 10 scale. [14] The report correlates the life evaluation results with various life factors. [2]
The life factor variables used in the reports are reflective of determinants that explain national-level differences in life evaluations across research literature. However, certain variables, such as unemployment or inequality, are not considered as comparable data is not yet available across all countries. The variables used illustrate important correlations rather than causal estimates. [15]
The use of subjective measurements of wellbeing is meant to be a bottom-up approach which emancipates respondents to evaluate their own wellbeing. [16] In this context, the value of the Cantril Ladder is the fact that a respondent can self-anchor themselves based on their perspective. [17]
In the reports, experts in fields including economics , psychology , survey analysis, and national statistics , describe how measurements of well-being can be used effectively to assess the progress of nations, and other topics. Each report is organized by chapters that delve deeper into issues relating to happiness , including mental illness, the objective benefits of happiness, the importance of ethics, policy implications, and links with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) approach to measuring subjective well-being and other international and national efforts.
From 2021 the World Happiness Report has advocated for the use of WELLBYs (Well-Being-Adjusted Life-Years); it argues that QALYs only count the individual patient's health-related quality of life, and instead WELLBYs should be used. Policy-makers should aim to maximise the WELLBYs of all who are born, and also include the WELLBYs of future generations (subject to a small discount rate). [18] [19] [20]
World Happiness Reports were issued in 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016 (an update), 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. In addition to ranking countries happiness and well-being levels, each report has contributing authors and most focus on a particular theme. The data used to rank countries in each report is drawn from the Gallup World Poll, [21] as well as other sources such as the World Values Survey , in some of the reports. The Gallup World Poll questionnaire [22] measures 14 areas within its core questions: (1) business & economic, (2) citizen engagement, (3) communications & technology, (4) diversity (social issues), (5) education & families, (6) emotions (well-being), (7) environment & energy, (8) food & shelter, (9) government and politics, (10) law & order (safety), (11) health, (12) religion & ethics, (13) transportation, and (14) work.
The 2022 World Happiness Report included a section looking at possible genetic effects on individual happiness. [23]
Finland is in the top position in the world happiness report in 2022. Follow by Denmark and Iceland in second and third place. Sweden , Switzerland , Israel , Ireland , Netherlands , New Zealand , and Costa Rica are among top 10 Happiest country in the world.
Afghanistan score the lowest point of 2.523 and is rank the saddest country in the world by 2022.
The 2021 World Happiness Report, released on March 20, 2021, ranks 156 countries based on an average of three years of surveys between 2017 and 2019. The 2020 report especially focuses on the environment – social, urban, and natural, and includes links between happiness and sustainable development. [24]
Finland holds the rank of the happiest country in the world for the fourth consecutive year. [25] It is followed by Denmark , Switzerland , Iceland and Netherlands . Afghanistan received the lowest score, with South Sudan and Rwanda just above it. In addition to country rankings, this is the second year that the World Happiness Report ranks cities. The happiest city in the world is Helsinki , the capital of Finland . The report shows that the happiness ranking of cities is almost identical to that of the countries they are in.
The 2020 World Happiness Report, released on March 20, 2020, ranks 156 countries based on an average of three years of surveys between 2017 and 2019. The 2020 report especially focuses on the environment – social, urban, and natural, and includes links between happiness and sustainable development. [26]
Finland holds the rank of the happiest country in the world for the third consecutive year. [27] It is followed by Denmark , Switzerland , Iceland and Norway . Afghanistan received the lowest score, with South Sudan and Zimbabwe just above it. [28] In addition to country rankings, this is the first year that the World Happiness Report ranks cities. The happiest city in the world is Helsinki , the capital of Finland . The report shows that the happiness ranking of cities is almost identical to that of the countries they are in.
In 2020, the editorial team expanded and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve became a Co-Editor, joining John F. Helliwell , Richard Layard , Jeffrey D. Sachs , and the Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre became a fourth research pillar for the Report. Associate Editors were Lara Aknin, Haifang Huang and Shun Wang, and Sharon Paculor was recognized as Production Editor. From 2020, Gallup became a full data partner.
The 2019 World Happiness Report focuses community. According to the 2019 Happiness Report, Finland is the happiest country in the world, [29] with Denmark , Norway , Iceland , and The Netherlands holding the next top positions.
The second chapter of the report, 'Changing World Happiness', measures year-to-year changes in happiness across countries. For this, changes are reported from 2005-2008 to 2016-2018. Of the 132 countries with data for 2005-2008 and 2016-2018, 106 had significant changes: 64 were significant increases and 42 were significant decreases. Benin was the top gainer, while Venezuela showed the greatest decrease. The chapter also considers how happiness has been affected by changes in the quality of government. The third chapter considers happiness and voting behaviour, with data suggesting that happier people are more likely to vote, and to vote for incumbents.
The fourth chapter is an examination of happiness and pro-social behaviour, finding that people are more likely to derive happiness from helping others when they feel free to choose whether or how to help, when they feel connected to the people they are helping, and when they can see how their help is making a difference.
The final topic of the report, digital and information technologies and happiness, is covered in the remaining chapters.
The editorial team for the 2019 report was expanded to include Lara Aknin as Associate Editor.
The 2018 iteration was released on 20 March and focused on the relation between happiness and migration.
The fifth World Happiness Report emphasizes the importance of the social foundations of happiness, which are analysed by comparing the life experiences between the top and bottom ten countries in the year’s happiness rankings. Norway topped the global happiness rankings in this report, jumping from fourth place in 2016 to first in 2017. It was followed by Denmark , Iceland and Switzerland . The second chapter of the report focuses on the global rankings and calculates that bringing the social foundations from the lowest levels up to world average levels in 2014-2016 would increase life evaluations by almost two points. This means that social foundations effects are together larger than those of GDP per capita and healthy life expectancy.
The third chapter focuses on economic growth and wellbeing in China, and shows that unemployment and changes in the social safety nets explain both the post-1990 fall in happiness levels and the subsequent recovery since 2005. The fourth chapter discusses the reasons why countries in Africa are generally lagging behind others in life evaluations. The fifth chapter analyses key determinants of happiness, including income, mental health, and physical health. The sixth chapter considers the determinant of employment and work in particular, emphasising the importance of employment for happiness across the world. The final chapter uses happiness history over the past ten years, analysing the case of the United States through the lens of social foundations of happiness.
The 2016 World Happiness Report -Rome Addition was issued in two parts as an update. Part one had four chapters: (1) Setting the Stage, (2) The Distribution of World Happiness , (3) Promoting Secular Ethics , and (4) Happiness and Sustainable Development: Concepts and Evidence . Part two has six chapters: (1) Inside the Life Satisfaction Blackbox , (2) Human Flourishing, the Common Good, and Catholic Social Teaching , (3) The Challenges of Public Happiness: An Historical-Methodological Reconstruction , (4) The Geography of Parenthood and Well-Being: Do Children Make Us Happy, Where and Why? , and (5) Multidimensional Well-Being in Contemporary Europe: An Analysis of the Use of a Self-Organizing Map Applied to Share Data .
Chapter 1, Setting the Stage is written by John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard, and Jeffrey Sachs. This chapter briefly surveys the happiness movement ("Increasingly, happiness is considered to be the proper measure of social progress and the goal of public policy.") gives an overview of the 2016 reports and synopsis of both parts of the 2016 Update Rome Addition.
Chapter 2, The Distribution of World Happiness is written by John F. Helliwell, Hailing Huang, and Shun Wang. This chapter reports happiness levels of countries and proposes the use of inequalities of happiness among individuals as a better measure for inequality than income inequality , and that all people in a population fare better in terms of happiness when there is less inequality in happiness in their region. It includes data from the World Health Organization and World Development Indicators , as well as Gallup World Poll. It debunks the notion that people rapidly adapt to changes in life circumstances and quickly return to an initial life satisfaction baseline , finding instead that changes in life circumstances such as government policies , major life events ( unemployment , major disability ) and immigration change people's baseline life satisfaction levels. This chapter also addresses the measure for affect (feelings), finding that positive affect (happiness, laughter, enjoyment) has much "large and highly significant impact" on life satisfaction than negative affect (worry, sadness, anger). The chapter also examines differences in happiness levels explained by the factors of (1) social support, (2) income, (3) healthy life, (4) trust in government and business, (5) perceived freedom to make life decisions and (6) generosity.
Chapter 3, Promoting Secular Ethics is written by Richard Layard, This chapter argues for a revival of an ethical life and world, harkening to times when religious organizations were a dominant force. It calls on secular non-profit organizations to promote "ethical living in a way that provides inspiration, uplift, joy and mutual respect", and gives examples of implementation by a non-profit founded by Richard Layard, [30] the chapter author, Action for Happiness, which offers online information from positive psychology and Buddhist teachings .
Chapter 4, Happiness and Sustainable Development: Concepts and Evidence is written by Jeffrey Sachs. This chapter identifies ways that sustainable development indicators (economic, social and environmental factors) can be used to explain variations in happiness. It concludes with a report about an appeal to include subjective well-being indicators into the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) .
Part Two 2016 Special Rome Edition was edited by Jeffrey Sacks, Leonardo Becchetti and Anthony Arnett.
Chapter 1, Inside the Life Satisfaction Blackbox is written by Leonardo Becchetti, Luisa Carrado, [31] and Paolo Sama. This chapter proposes using quality of life measurements (a broader range of variables that life evaluation) in lieu of or in addition to overall life evaluations in future World Happiness Reports.
Chapter 2, Human Flourishing, the Common Good, and Catholic Social Teaching is written by Anthony Annett. This chapter contains explanations for three theories: (1) It is human nature to broadly define happiness and understand the connection between happiness and the common good , (2) that the current understanding of individuality is stripped of ties to the common good, and (3) that there is a need to restore the common good as central value for society. The chapter also proposes Catholic school teachings as a model for restoring the common good as a dominant value.
Chapter 3, The Challenges of Public Happiness: An Historical-Methodological Reconstruction is written by Luigino Bruni and Stefano Zemagni. This chapter contemplates Aristotelian concepts of happiness and virtue as they pertain to and support the findings in the World Happiness Reports regarding the impact of social support, trust in government, and equality of happiness.
Chapter 4, The Geography of Parenthood and Well-Being. Do Children Make Us Happy, Where and Why ? is written by Luca Stanca. [32] This chapter examines other research findings that children do not add happiness to parents. Using data from the World Values Survey , it finds that, with the exception of widowed parents, having children has a negative effect on life satisfaction for parents in 2/3 of the 105 countries studied, with parents in richer countries suffering more. Once parents are old , life satisfaction increases. The chapter concludes that "existing evidence is not conclusive" and a statement that the causes for the low life satisfaction levels may be that for richer countries, having children is valued less, and in poorer countries, people suffer in financial and time costs when they have children.
Chapter 5, Multidimensional Well-Being in Contemporary Europe: Analysis of the Use of Self-Organizing Map Allied to SHARE Data is written by Mario Lucchini, Luca Crivelli [33] and Sara della Bella. This chapter contains a study of well-being data from older European adults. It finds that this chapter's study results were consistent with the World Happiness Report 2016 update: positive affect (feelings) have a stronger impact on a person's satisfaction with life than do negative affect (feelings).
The 2015 World Happiness Report has eight chapters: (1) Setting the Stage , (2) The Geography of World Happiness , (3) How Does Subjective Well-being Vary Around the World by Gender and Age? , (4) How to Make Policy When Happiness is the Goal , (5) Neuroscience of Happiness , (6) Healthy Young Minds Transforming the Mental Health of Children, (7) Human Values, Civil Economy, and Subjective Well-being , and (8) Investing in Social Capital.
Chapter 1, Setting the Stage is written by John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard and Jeffrey Sachs. This chapter celebrates the success of the happiness movement ("Happiness is increasingly considered a proper means of social progress and public policy."), citing the OECD Guidelines on Measuring Subjective Well-being, a referendum in the EU requiri
Sexy Giantess
Pasiphae Porn
Creampie In Bathroom