Every year on Mar 20, the world observes the International Day of Happiness or World Happiness Day. This day is an essential human goal, as the name implies. It was first observed in 2013 by the UN
The annual World Happiness Report considers factors such as social support, income, health, freedom, generosity, and absence of corruption to create a global ranking of happiness around the globe
India was ranked even below Pakistan, Nepal, China, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. In Asia, India is only better off than Afghanistan that was placed at 137th position
Lebanon was the world's second saddest country, with Botswana, Rwanda and Zimbabwe rounding out the bottom five
Denmark kept its second place, Iceland bypassed Switzerland to take third place and the Netherlands rounded out the top five
While seeking happiness sounds like a noble, albeit an abstract pursuit, not many are able to find it. People spend years looking for happiness, but fail to achieve anything even remotely resembling happiness caught in the enslaving routine of their lives. The noise, the strife, the daily grind, the race for things, tangible and intangible, leave people drained with no happiness in sight. But what if you have the opportunity to shift to the 'world's happiest country'? Would you be interested? The country we are referring to is Finland. It has earned the distinction in the happiness rankings from the United Nations four years on the trot. Watch the video to understand why should and should not Finland be on your bucket list if you're thinking of settling abroad?
The World Happiness Report uses data from interviews of more than 350,000 people in 95 countries, conducted by Gallup
Finland has taken the top spot for the fourth year as the happiest country in the world despite the global pandemic's devastating effects according to the UN-curated World Happiness Report 2021
The report was released by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network for the United Nations on March 20 which has was declared as World Happiness Day by the UN General Assembly in 2012