Happiness Index
Mumbai takes the crown in the list of Asia's happiest cities of 2025
Mumbai emerges as Asia's happiest city with 94% of residents saying the city makes them happy; Beijing, Shanghai, Chiang Mai, and Hanoi follow
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India is the happiest nation in the world. So why is Japan near the bottom?
India leads the global happiness rankings, while Japan struggles with inflation, pension insecurity, and growing despair among youth and the elderly
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Finland ranks as world's happiest country again, US at worst-ever level
Denmark, Iceland, Sweden and the Netherlands rounded out the top five in the rankings, which are based solely on the answers people give when asked to rate the quality of their own lives
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International Day of Happiness 2024: It's all about importance of happiness
This day is committed to spreading awareness about the significance of happiness and prosperity. The day also aims to highlight the adverse impact of stress and other mental health issues
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World's happiest country ranking goes to Finland for fifth year in a row
Denmark kept its second place, Iceland bypassed Switzerland to take third place and the Netherlands rounded out the top five
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Corruption affects happiness of 43.2% Indians, study finds
HappyPlus Consulting's India-focussed State of Happiness' report has found that Indians are happier than before and the country's life-evaluation score is 6.84
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China happiest nation, India 13 in marketing firm's online survey for 2020
Peru, Chile, Spain are least happy, according to Ipsos's study in 27 global markets.
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Letter to BS: Time for economists to leave GDP alone and focus on happiness
More than in economics, development needs to be in human ethos
Letters to BS: Measuring nations' prosperity with GDP is clearly misleading
As newer economic theories get misapplied, attempts at political correction follow
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Say cheese! Madhya Pradesh likely to be first state to have happiness index
A survey will be launched in November and is expected to be completed by the end of the financial year
Is India's unhappiness exaggerated?
The objective of the present study is to examine whether India's abysmal rank (133 in a sample of 156 countries) is justified or whether India's unhappiness is exaggerated
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Happiness is the key to success for 72% Indian respondents: Survey
Amongst the countries surveyed, Indian professionals ranked third in feeling successful, just after the UAE in the first spot and Brazil in the second
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In a first, Madhya Pradesh to sample happiness from next year
Chouhan said, his state was looking at spiritual happiness and happiness through knowledge in accordance with Indian philosophy
