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Froma Harrop: Some countries are happier than others Right? cdispatch.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cdispatch.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Finland is the worldâs happiest countryâfourth year in a row!âor 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 report authors based their conclusions on interviews with more than 350,000 people in 95 countries. One of their questions was âDid you smile . a lot yesterday?â
Had I been asked that, I might have said, âYes, I smiled at a report making impossible comparisons based on questionable markers for contentment. By the way, what do you mean by âhappinessâ?â
The report purports to compare the happy factor in Finland, a Nordic country of 5.5 million people, 91% of them ethnic Finns, with, say, the United States, a multiracial, multi-religious, multi-everything country of 330 million running from the Arctic to the tropics.
According to a new report, the happiest country in the world is….Finland!
-…and for the 4
th straight year, per the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, which helps assess the ‘World Happiness Report’
-Rankings aren’t based on income and life expectancy, but rather how people rate their happiness on a 1-10 scale. The U.S. was 14
th, behind Ireland and ahead of Canada
Jenny Gross and Johanna Lemola, The New York Times
Published: 21 Apr 2021 11:56 AM BdST
Updated: 21 Apr 2021 11:56 AM BdST Finland. Renato Duarte. FACEBOOK
When governments around the world introduced coronavirus restrictions requiring people to stand 2 meters apart, jokes in Finland started circulating: “Why can’t we stick to the usual 4 meters?” );
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Finns embrace depictions of themselves as melancholic and reserved a people who mastered social distancing long before the pandemic. A popular local saying goes, “Happiness will always end in tears.”
But for four consecutive years, Finland has been named the happiest country in the world by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, which publishes an annual report evaluating the happiness of people around the world.