Posted on 03/20/2023 11:40:08 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Americans are pretty happy compared with the rest of the world.
That’s according to the latest World Happiness Report, published Monday, which ranked the United States 15th on the list of the world’s happiest countries in 2023, up from 16th place in 2022.
The report compiled data from more than 150 countries on average life satisfaction, and findings offer some good news for a world struggling with a years-long pandemic.
“Average happiness and our country rankings, for emotions as well as life evaluations, have been remarkably stable during the three COVID-19 years,” said John Helliwell, an editor of the report, in a release.
“Changes in rankings that have taken place have been continuations of longer-term trends, such as the increases seen in the rankings of the three Baltic countries,” he added. Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia have all climbed the list in recent years.
Finland landed the top spot as the world’s happiest country for the sixth year in a row. It was followed by Denmark and Iceland, respectively.
Despite its rise in the ranking, the United States’ average life evaluation fell slightly from 6.977 out of 10 in 2022, to 6.894 in 2023
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Yes. The indictment, and the lack of rude tweets. That’s what makes us all happy. [/s]
In the list, they have Taiwan as: “Taiwan, Province of China”,
and Palestine is listed as a sovereign nation.
Yeah, no slant there, no siree!
I’m surprised they even included Israel as a sovereign nation. It must have hurt them to do that. (rolls eyes)
Link to the Report:
https://happiness-report.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/WHR+23.pdf
“Researchers ranked residents’ life evaluations based on a three-year average from 2020 to 2022. They explained their findings based on six factors, including social support, income, health, freedom, generosity and absence of corruption. “
>>Must be because orange man is getting indicted. (S)
I know you’re being sarcastic. Clearly it’s due to Biden’s booming economy leading to a “historic economic recovery”.
If government was limited, we would be ranked the happiest country....
Maybe the rest of the world became more miserable.
A much better measure of countries is freedom. That unfortunately has decline my entire life.
I never give much credence to any of these “best-of” lists. The criteria used are laughable.
Yeah the bias is palpable.
All you need to know is China and North Korea aren't tied for first!
15th place? Must be the fentanyl people take as they die “happy”.
Did we inch ahead of Ukraine? Or Congo, perhaps.
This article is complete bull crap.
Good catch. That explains why the article smells.
You nailed it.
This article is full of bullfauci.
I consider myself extremely happy in the happiest country of all (the United States) because I have a myriad of interests and a great, healthy lifestyle.
“...Good catch. That explains why the article smells.”
I wouldn’t even grace piece of playground-slide-slanted collection of words with the term: “article”. Nah, things like that, I prefer to refer to as “sharticles”.
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