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Sunday, March 24th, 2024

 World Happiness Report 2024

Author:     WHR Editorial Board, formed of John F. Helliwell, Lord Richard Layard, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Lara B. Aknin, and Shun Wang.
Source:     World Happiness Report
Publication Date:     20 March 2024
 Link:  World Happiness Report 2024
Stephan:  

The 2024 World Happiness Report has just come out. The report is researched and written by a partnership among Gallup, the Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and the World Happiness Report’s Editorial Board. The news for America is very sad. The United States of America has fallen out of the top 20 for the first time since the World Happiness Report was first published in 2012, driven by a large drop in the wellbeing of Americans under 30, and now ranks 23rd. Almost no one in politics talks about any of this, except for a few brave souls like Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. You never see anyone in corporate media even dare mention it. The truth is, however, by any objectively verifiable social outcome measure you choose, the United States is a failing society.

To download the full report: https://happiness-report.s3.amazonaws.com/2024/WHR+24.pdf

 World Happiness Report 2024: Most comprehensive picture yet of happiness across generations 

Fresh insights from the World Happiness Report 2024, released today (March 20), paint the richest picture yet of happiness trends across different ages and generations. 

The findings, announced today to mark the UN’s International Day of Happiness, are powered by data from the Gallup World Poll and analysed by some of the world’s leading wellbeing scientists. 

Experts use responses from people in more than 140 nations to rank the world’s ‘happiest’ countries. Finland tops the overall list for the seventh successive year, though there is considerable movement elsewhere: 

  • Serbia (37th) and Bulgaria (81st) have had the biggest increases in average life evaluation scores since they were first measured by the Gallup World Poll in 2013, and this is reflected in climbs up the rankings between the World Happiness Report 2013 and this 2024 edition of 69 places for Serbia and 63 places for Bulgaria. 
  • The next two countries showing the largest increases in life evaluations are Latvia (46th) and Congo (Brazzaville) (89th), with rank increases of 44 and 40 places, respectively, between 2013 and 2024. 

Significantly, the United States of America (23rd) has fallen out of […]

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