Top 10 Happiest Countries in the World

For a consecutive fourth year, Finland leads the list as the happiest country worldwide, as per an annual report sponsored by the UN.

Written by a group of independent experts, the World Happiness Report 2021 focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 and how individuals globally have fared in view of the pandemic.

The Report, as per the UN, had a two-fold aim – that of focusing on the effect of the pandemic on the lives of individuals, along with describing and evaluating how governments across the world have dealt with it.

In particular, the Report has tried to find an explanation as to why certain countries might have fared better than the rest.

According to the authors, “people see Covid-19 as a common, outside threat affecting everybody and that this has generated a greater sense of solidarity and fellow-feeling."

The authors came to the finding that Finland ranked high based on the “measures of mutual trust that have helped to protect lives and livelihoods during the pandemic”.

As per the data with the John Hopkins University, Finland, the Nordic nation of 5.5 million individuals fared far better than most of Europe during the pandemic.

Top 10 Happiest Countries in the World [Based on World Happiness Report 2021, looking at how countries fared between 2018-2020]
Serial No.	Country	Country Abbreviation
1	Finland	FI
2	Denmark	DK
3	Switzerland	CH
4	Iceland	IS
5	Netherlands	NL
6	Norway	NO
7	Sweden	SE
8	Luxembourg	LU
9	New Zealand	NZ
10	Austria	AT

New Zealand was the only non-European nation that made it to the Top 10.

The latest World Happiness Report is the ninth to be published. The decennial report will be published in 2022.

While 2020 had been an unprecedented year due to the pandemic, as per the World Happiness Report, “there is hope that the end game is in sight”.

According to Jeffrey Sachs, “The pandemic reminds us of our global environmental threats, the urgent need to cooperate, and the difficulties of achieving cooperation in each country and globally. The World Happiness Report 2021 reminds us that we must aim for wellbeing rather than mere wealth …"

Every year, the World Happiness Report compiles data from the previous 3 years of survey.

Survey data for the World Happiness Report 2021 was taken from the Gallup World Poll surveys from 2018 to 2020.

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