Question: Consider the following statement:
(1) Finland is ranked as the world’s happiest nation for the third consecutive year.
(2) Indiaranked dropped to 144 from the last year 140.
Choose the correct one:
(a) Only(1)
(b) Only(2)
(c) Both (1) and (2)
(d) None of the above
Answer:(c)
Related facts:
- On 20th March, 2020,The Sustainable Development Solutions Network for the United Nations released the World Happiness Report
- The International Day of Happiness is celebrated worldwide every year on 20 March.
Report highlights:
- The World Happiness Report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness that ranks 156 countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be.
- The World Happiness Report 2020 for the first time ranks cities around the world by their subjective well-being and digs more deeply into how the social, urban and natural environments combine to affect our happiness
- The rankings based on polling (Gallup World Poll) considers six variables to derive the rank: GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom, generosity, and absence of corruption.
- The 2020 Report for the first time ranked cities around the world by their subjective well-being and looked into how the social, urban and natural environments combine to affect happiness.
- Finland is ranked as the world’s happiest nation for the third consecutive year.
- Other countries in top 10 are Denmark,Switzerland,Iceland,Norway,Netherlands,Sweden,New Zealand,Austria and Luxembourg.
- Zimbabwe, South Sudan and Afghanistan are classified as the world’s least happy nations.
Indian Context:
- India, previously ranked at 140 dropped to 144.
- India’s global position in Happiness Index is lower than its neighbouring countries Nepal (92), Pakistan(66), Bangladesh(107) and Sri Lanka(130).
Links:
https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-life/finland-is-again-worlds-happiest/article31124323.ece
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Day_of_Happiness