The country ranks 28th worldwide. In the region, the happiest nation is Costa Rica.
Finland was chosen as the “happiest country in the world” for the sixth consecutive year and Uruguay ranked second in Latin America, after Costa Rica, according to the index prepared by the United Nations Organization (UN) and published today within the framework of the International Day of Happiness.
He World Happiness Report, which was first published in 2012, is based on people’s own assessments of their situation, their economic well-being and various social indicators.
In this new edition, the key factors that were considered to measure “self-reported levels of happiness” around the world are social support, income, health, freedom, generosity and the absence of corruption in different countries.
The first Latin American country in the ranking is Costa Rica with position 23, followed by Uruguay with the 28, and Chile with 35, almost 10 points more than the previous year. Argentina, for its part, climbed five points compared to the last report and was positioned at number 52 in the world ranking.
How was the world ranking?
For the sixth consecutive year, Finland topped the ranking as the “happiest country in the world”, followed by Denmark, Iceland, Israel – which climbed five places compared to last year – and the Netherlands. Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Luxembourg and New Zealand complete the Top 10 of the UN Happiness Index, which once again positions the countries of northern Europe “as the happiest nations”.
a resilient world
According to its authors, this year’s Happiness Report shows that despite “several overlapping crises,” most populations around the world remain “remarkably resilient,” with global averages of life satisfaction over the years of the Covid-19 pandemic (2020-2022) “as high” as those of the years prior to the pandemic.
However, they cautioned that in many cases happiness is “unevenly distributed” within countries, so the report inquires into “the happiness gap between the top and bottom halves of the population” in a country. .
The report was published by the UN within the framework of the International Day of Happiness, which is commemorated every March 20, with the aim that its results are a contribution to support public and private policies to help promote happiness and well-being. .
Source: Ambito
