World Happiness Report

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The World Happiness Report is a publication that contains articles and rankings of national happiness, based on respondent ratings of their own lives, which the report also correlates with various quality of life factors. Since 2024, the report has been published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, in partnership with Gallup, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and an independent editorial board. The editorial board consists of the three founding editors, John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard, and Jeffrey D. Sachs, along with Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Lara Aknin, and Shun Wang. The report primarily uses data from the Gallup World Poll. The rankings are based on a single life evaluation question, the Cantril Ladder, in which respondents rate their current lives on a scale from 0 to 10. As of March 2026, Finland has been ranked the happiest country in the world for nine years in a row.

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