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Why is Finland the happiest nation? Don t ask the Finns
25 Apr, 2021 10:52 PM
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Finland has faired better than most nations during the pandemic, which experts say is the result of high trust in government and compliance with restrictions. Photo/John McConnico/The New York Times
Finland has faired better than most nations during the pandemic, which experts say is the result of high trust in government and compliance with restrictions. Photo/John McConnico/The New York Times
New York Times
By: Jenny Gross and Johanna Lemola
When governments around the world introduced coronavirus restrictions requiring people to stand 2m apart, jokes in Finland started circulating: Why can t we stick to the usual 4m?
according to the latest World Happiness Report
This is the fourth consecutive year the country has been ranked number 1
South Africa improved from 78th to 76th place, while Zimbabwe was ranked as the least happy country in the world
If it’s at all possible to achieve a perfect country, it seems, at least on paper, that Finland is as close as it gets. For the fourth consecutive year, the Nordic country with 5.5 million people topped a list of 95 countries evaluated on the happiness and wellbeing of their inhabitants.
This is according to the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, which publishes an annual report, called the World Happiness Report. The 2021 report is the ninth one and was authored by six researchers.
Harrop: Happiness report more fun than accurate By Froma Harrop
Share: Froma Harrop is a columnist for Creators.com. Email: fharrop@gmail.com Photo
Finland is the world’s happiest country fourth year in a row! So says the World Happiness Report, produced by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network. The United States ranks 14th, right behind Ireland and ahead of Canada.
The authors based their conclusions on interviews with more than 350,000 people in 95 countries. One of their questions was “Did you smile . . . a lot yesterday?”
Had I been asked that, I might have said, “Yes, I smiled at a report making impossible comparisons based on questionable markers for contentment. By the way, what do you mean by ‘happiness’?”
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