The World Happiness Report 2023 has been resign , once again showing that the Nordic area are certainly doing something right when it comes to their population ’ well - being . That ’s especially true for Finland , which secured the championship of the human race ’s happiest country for the 6th sentence in a row .

It has been over 10 years since the first United Nations ’ World Happiness Report was published , butthis year ’s editionis particularly spectacular as it ’s the first to assess planetary happiness in the viewing of theCOVID-19 pandemic .

Perhaps surprisingly , the report concludes that the past three years of end and donkeywork have n’t bear on the world ’s happiness too much . Against all the betting odds , a number of felicity metrics have stay stable throughout COVID-19 – and some have even improved .

The reputation found that the globe meet a surge of benevolence in 2020 and especially in 2021 . Even in 2022 , the style seems to have stuck and prosocial act stay higher than pre - pandemic degree .

“ mediocre felicity and our nation rankings , for emotions as well as life valuation , have been unusually static during the three COVID-19 old age , ” Professor John F. Helliwell , editor in chief of the report from the University of British Columbia , said in astatement .

“ change in rankings that have taken place have been continuations of longer - terminus trend , such as the increases seen in the rankings of the three Baltic land . Even during these difficult years , positive emotions have remain double as dominant as negative ones , and impression of positive social reenforcement double as strong as those of solitariness . ”

The researchers rate rural area across the world establish on six complex factors : social support , income , health , exemption , generousness , and absence seizure of putrescence . They also cut through two bar of miserableness center on around the part of the population who have low-toned life rating and down in the mouth ratings of life .

“ This class ’s study features many interesting insights , ” added Professor Lara B. Aknin , Director of the Helping and Happiness Lab of Simon Fraser University , “ but one that I find particularly interesting and heartening has to do with pro - sociality . For a second class , we see that various forms of everyday kindness , such as helping a stranger , donate to charity , and volunteering , are above pre - pandemic storey . Acts of kindness have been point to both conduct to and stem from great felicity . ”

Based on these metrics , the top 20 countries were :

On the other oddment of the spectrum , Afghanistan and Lebanon were ranked the least happy countries .

The theme is also the first to measure the happiness ofUkrainesince it was infest by Russia in February 2022 . As you ’d no doubt expect , the warfare has had a significant impact on the country – but not necessarily all terrible .

“ The annihilating impact of the war is evident to all , and so we also find that well - being in Ukraine has take a substantial hit ” , take note Jan - Emmanuel De Neve . “ But what is surprising , however , is that well - being in Ukraine fell by less than it did in 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea , and this is thanks in part to the sinful rise in fellow feeling across Ukraine as picked up in data on helping strangers and donations – the Russian invasion has forged Ukraine into a nation . ”