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FINLAND IS THE HAPPIEST COUNTRY ON EARTH: NIGERIA RANKS 102ND

For the seventh successive time, Finland has been crowned the world's happiest country in the newly-released World Happiness Report. This compilation was done using data from more than 140 countries. The report is published annually by Gallup, the United Nations, and the University of Oxford.

Overall, European countries dominated the rankings; in particular, the Nordic countries  (Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, and Norway) all retained spots in the top 10.


Nigeria ranked 102nd on the World's Happiness ranking. This marks a decline from the 95th position it held in 2023. Nigerians perceive themselves to be less happy in 2024 compared to 2023.

While the rankings themselves are based only on the answers people give when asked to rate their own lives, interdisciplinary experts from the fields of economics, psychology, and sociology are then called in to crunch the data and make evaluations. The evaluations measure individuals’ quality of life or life satisfaction based on these six key variables: GDP per capital, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom, generosity, and perception of corruption.

This indicates that most Nigerians have identified that their quality of life, such as living arrangements, income, health behaviors, condition and care, social engagement and support, have not improved significantly in the last five years.

This degree of life satisfaction also varies across the age groups and has greatly changed in the last 12 years of the report.

 

Young People are unhappy than ever

For the first time, the report has drilled down into the data to give insights into levels of happiness by age group. This showed a wildly different picture compared to the official rankings, with Lithuania (19 in the overall rankings) coming out top as the happiest country in the world for young children and people under 30, while Denmark (second overall) was the happiest place to be for older people over 60.

This year’s report did, however, highlight a growing disparity in well-being between ages depending on their geographical location.

Researchers found that, globally, young people aged 15 to 24 reported higher life satisfaction than adults aged 25 and older. However, there were significant dips highlighted in Western Europe and North America, as well as the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia "due to negative trends for young people".



The 10 Unhappiest countries

134. Zambia

135. Eswatini

136. Malawi

137. Botswana

138. Zimbabwe

139. Congo

140. Sierra Leone

141. Lesotho

142. Lebanon

143. Afghanistan



The 10 Happiest Countries

1. Finland

2. Denmark

3. Iceland

4. Sweden

5. Israel

6. Netherlands

7. Norway

8. Luxembourg

9. Switzerland

10. Australia

The variables the report quantifies are income (GDP per capita), healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom to make life choices, generosity, and freedom from corruption.

Ref: Euro News, Dataphyte

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