The annual World Happiness Report has again ranked Finland and other Scandinavian countries the most cheerful nations on Earth. Costa Rica and Kuwait entered the top 20 in place of the United States and Germany.
Finland has remained the happiest country in the world for the seventh year a row with nordic neighbors Sweden, Denmark and Iceland also retaining their places in the top 10, according to the annual World Happiness Report published on Wednesday.
But rising unhapiness especially among young people has seen other Western countries drop down the UN-sponsored index, with the United States and Germany dropping out of the top 20 for the first time since the report’s first edition more than a decade ago.
Taking their place were Costa Rica and Kuwait at 12 and 13 respectively, while Eastern European countries Serbia, Bulgaria and Latvia reported the biggest increases in happiness.
Afghanistan, plagued by a humanitarian catastrophe since the Taliban regained control in 2020, remained in last place.
Did they really interview a statistically respective portion of the ivory coast to get this almost worthless metric? Seems a huge amount of resources which could have gone somewhere useful if so.
What did Cote D’Ivoire do to you for you to pick that one small west African nation from a list of over 100 countries?
They know what they did!!
Someone’s bitter that their country is ranked far down the list… 😛
they’re just pissy because you cant legally trade ivory anymore
Keenan Ivory Wayans and Paul McCartney would beg to differ.
The latter because of his song featuring Stevie Wonder, not the poaching empire he was never convicted of being the boss of.