WORLD HAPPINESS REPORT

Subject : International Report

Context : World Happiness Report 2021: Finland ranks first, India 139th.

Concept :

Finland has been declared the world’s happiest country for the fourth year running, according to the World Happiness Report 2021 published.
Meanwhile, India ranked 139th out of the 149 countries in the list — a slight improvement since last year, when it was ranked 140th.
Of the 10 top countries in the list, nine were in Europe. Finland was followed by Denmark, Switzerland, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Luxembourg, New Zealand and Austria.
The report evaluated levels of happiness by taking into account factors such as GDP, social support, personal freedom, and levels of corruption in each nation.
But this year, the authors had a unique new challenge to address in the report — the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and its devastating impact on nations around the world.

About World Happiness Report:

It is released by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network for the United Nations by the UN General Assembly.
It is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness that ranks countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be.