Association World Happiness Report released its 2024 study on Tuesday and noted where each nation assessed ranked among the 143 countries analyzed.

Data from a new report announced for tomorrow’s UN International Day of Happiness ranks countries that show significant increase in ratings about the standard of living; Serbia (37th place) and Bulgaria (81st place) are the most prominent examples of this trend, rising respectively 69 and 63 positions compared to the 2013 edition.

Also relevant is the rise in the position of Latvia, which is in 46th place, whereas in 2013 it was in 90th place, and from Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville), rising from 129th place in 2013 to 89th place this year..

Considering these movements, Finland remains at the top of the classification for the seventh year in a row, with Denmark hot on their heels, closing the gap; On the other hand, Afghanistan continues to rank last (143), earning itself the title of the world’s unhappiest country.

Top 10 rating In this order, it is completed by Iceland, Sweden, Israel, the Netherlands, Norway, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Australia; with names in the queue including Lebanon, Lesotho, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa), Zimbabwe and Botswana.

Mexico moved up 20 spots from 2022, while the US dropped 8 spots.

The report’s second block, Happiness of the Youngest, Oldest and Middle, shows a “ranking of life scores by age group, 2021-2023”, with this section showing the happiest countries from first to last. position.

According to this report, Mexico is in position 25since in two years it has risen to 21 positions, since in 2022 the report places our country at 46th place.

The US dropped out of the top 20 for the first time in more than a decade. According to the World Happiness Report 2024, this is due, in part, to a drop in the perception of happiness among the happiest countries in the world.

Findings from a new report announced to coincide with tomorrow’s UN International Day of Happiness celebrations. They rank the US 23rd. out of 143 countries analyzed, and ranked 15th in last year’s edition.

Since the study was published in 2012. This country has never left the top 20 positions beforeIt’s a decrease the document concerns younger Americans because perceived happiness among those under 30 is falling “significantly.”

What was the method of this study?

The world’s leading publication on global happiness is a collaboration between Gallup, the Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and the editorial board of the World Happiness Report (WHR). English).

Your information based on Gallup World Pollwhich asks respondents to rate their lives on a scale from 0 (worst possible life) to 10 (best possible life) and thus receives responses from people in over 140 countries, in this case between 2021 and 2023.

Subsequently, the world’s leading health scientists analyze these answers in order to classify states according to their level of happinesstherefore, they take into account key factors such as life expectancy, sense of freedom, generosity, GDP or perception of corruption.

Although there are countries that are progressing in the classification, at the other extreme are Afghanistan, Lebanon and Jordan, which They are the ones who lost the most positions in this year’s edition.

Gallup CEO John Clifton emphasizes the usefulness of this global happiness study to political leaders can develop “effective policies” based on “hard data” about what the public believes “makes life worth living.”

On average, boomers are happier than millennials

For the first time, the World Happiness Report proposes a separate classification by age group, which, among other data, shows that “Positive global trend in life satisfaction” between the ages of 15 and 24, the coronavirus pandemic ended.

This generational comparison also suggests that, on average, people born before 1965—boomers and their predecessors— they are happier than those born after 1980 – “millennials” and generation Z-.

Likewise, life evaluations among millennials and subsequent generations are worse with age, while life evaluations among boomers and their predecessors are higher with age.

Looking specifically at countries, the most satisfied children and young people under 30 are Lithuania, while for people over 60 Denmark is the happiest country in the world.

(according to information from EFE)