In the World Happiness Report 2021, India is at number 139, out of 149 countries..
This is an annual report released by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. It measures subjective well-being. It considers three main indicators: life evaluations, positive emotions, and negative emotions.
The Gallup World Poll remains the principal source of data for the World Happiness Report.
It asks people to evaluate their current life using the image of a ladder. Marking the best possible life as a ’10’ and worst possible as ‘0’.
Moreover, life evaluations give the most informative measure for international comparisons. This is because they capture the quality of life in a more complete and stable way rather than emotions-based.
Positive emotions, they ask whether the respondent smiled or laughed a lot the previous day.
An affirmative response is ‘1’. A negative response is ‘0’ in this World Happiness Report. While the average response for each person ranges with values between 0 and 1.
On the other hand, negative emotions are measured by asking whether they experience specific negative emotions a lot the same day.
Finland remains the world’s happiest country. Reports say that the overall rankings remain very similar to last year.
The other high scoring countries are Denmark, Switzerland, Iceland, and the Netherlands. The US ranks 19. However, people in Afghanistan are the least happy, according to the World Happiness Report 2021.
Due to the pandemic situation, many countries could not fare in this 2021 report. The top 20 countries are Finland, Demark, Switzerland, Iceland, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Luxembourg, New Zealand and Austria.
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