The World’s Happiest Countries (2015–2023)
Assessing subjective concepts such as happiness and life satisfaction poses a challenging endeavor.
Measuring subjective concepts such as happiness and life satisfaction can be a challenging task.
Does happiness truly correlate with indicators like wealth and prosperity? What about considerations of safety and health outcomes? From the Western perspective, democracy is seen as crucial for happiness. However, some countries under authoritarian rule have also scored high in the Happiness Index. Ranking happiness is a complex puzzle, but a valuable pursuit. If policymakers understand the factors that contribute to happiness, they can enforce policies to enhance well-being.
The world map below offers a worldwide overview of life satisfaction, utilizing data from the annual World Happiness Report — a survey gauging global citizen satisfaction — to depict the happiest and least happy countries across the globe.
