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What is the News?
The World Happiness Report 2022 has been released.
What is the World Happiness Report 2022?
Published by: United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network(UNSDSN) powered by the Gallup World Poll data.
Purpose: The report uses global survey data to report how people evaluate their own lives in countries worldwide.
Factors: The report takes into account factors such as Per capita GDP, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom, generosity and corruption levels.
The rankings of countries are based on average data of a three-year period of 2019-2021.
What are the key findings of the World Happiness Report 2022?
Topped by: Finland has topped the index for the fifth time in a row.
India: India continued to fare poorly in the World Happiness Index, with its position marginally improving to 136 as against 139 in 2021.
Among the South Asian nations, only Afghanistan fared worse than India. Afghanistan was named the most unhappy country in the world, ranking last on the index.
— Nepal (84), Bangladesh (94), Pakistan (121) and Sri Lanka (127) managed to get better ranks in the list.
Source: This post is based on an article “World Happiness Report: India among ‘unhappiest’ nations, languishes at 136th spot” published in Indian Express on 21st March 2022
