Question: A landmark survey of the state of global happiness-“World Happiness Report-2018” was released by UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UNSDSN). Which of the following countries is at top in the list amongst 156 countries?
(a) Denmark
(b) Norway
(c) Finland
(d) Iceland
Answer: (c)
Related Facts
- On March 14th, 2018, the sixth ‘World Happiness Report-2018’ was released by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UNSDSN) under the leadership of United Nations General Assembly.
- World Happiness Report-2018 includes 156 member countries.
- Under this survey work, six key factors have been used to measure the level of happiness of people of the countries.
- These 6 key factors are:
(i) GDP per capita
(ii) Healthy Life Expectancy
(iii) Social Freedom
(iv) Lack of corruption (Absence of Corruption
(v) Social Support and
(vi) Generosity.
- According to this report, Finland, ranked first in the list; is the world’s happiest country.
- Reports include Finland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand, Sweden and Australia, respectively, in the top ten countries of the world.
- In this list among the world’s major developed countries, Germany is ranked 15th, USA at 18th, United Kingdom at 19th, France at 23rd, Singapore at 34th and Japan ranked at 54th.
- According to this report, India is ranked at 133rd in this list.
- While last year India was ranked at 122nd in this list.
- In neighboring countries of India, Pakistan is ranked 75th, Bhutan at 97th, Nepal at 101st, Bangladesh at 115th and Sri Lanka remained at 116th.
- Thus, India is far behind from its neighbors in this list.
- List does not include any Asian country in the top 10.
- Israel ranked 11th and United Arab Emirates ranked 20th are among the most Happiest Asian countries.
- According to this report, Burundi ranked last in the list. Its position is 156th.
- It is worth noting that the main objective of this report, issued by the United Nations since 2012, is to motivate the member countries to create public policies keeping in mind the level of satisfaction and happiness of their citizens.
Reference:
http://worldhappiness.report/ed/2018/
https://s3.amazonaws.com/happiness-report/2018/WHR_web.pdf