{"id":43415,"date":"2018-03-20T05:04:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T05:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=43415"},"modified":"2018-03-20T05:04:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T05:04:37","slug":"world-happiness-report-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/world-happiness-report-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"World Happiness Report-2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: A landmark survey of the state of global happiness-\u201cWorld Happiness Report-2018\u201d was released by UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UNSDSN). Which of the following countries is at top in the list amongst 156 countries?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Denmark<br \/>\n(b) Norway<br \/>\n(c) Finland<br \/>\n(d) Iceland<br \/>\n<strong>Answer: (c)\u00a0<\/strong><strong><br \/>\nRelated Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On March 14<sup>th<\/sup>, 2018, the sixth &#8216;World Happiness Report-2018&#8217; was released by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UNSDSN) under the leadership of United Nations General Assembly.<\/li>\n<li>World Happiness Report-2018 includes 156 member countries.<\/li>\n<li>Under this survey work, six key factors have been used to measure the level of happiness of people of the countries.<\/li>\n<li>These 6 key factors are:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(i) GDP per capita<br \/>\n(ii) Healthy Life Expectancy<br \/>\n(iii) Social Freedom<br \/>\n(iv) Lack of corruption (Absence of Corruption<br \/>\n(v) Social Support and<br \/>\n(vi) Generosity.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>According to this report, Finland, ranked first in the list; is the world\u2019s happiest country.<\/li>\n<li>Reports include Finland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand, Sweden and Australia, respectively, in the top ten countries of the world.<\/li>\n<li>In this list among the world&#8217;s major developed countries, Germany is ranked 15<sup>th<\/sup>, USA at 18<sup>th<\/sup>, United Kingdom at 19<sup>th<\/sup>, France at 23<sup>rd<\/sup>, Singapore at 34<sup>th<\/sup> and Japan ranked at 54<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/li>\n<li>According to this report, India is ranked at 133<sup>rd<\/sup> in this list.<\/li>\n<li>While last year India was ranked at 122<sup>nd<\/sup> in this list.<\/li>\n<li>In neighboring countries of India, Pakistan is ranked 75<sup>th<\/sup>, Bhutan at 97<sup>th<\/sup>, Nepal at 101<sup>st<\/sup>, Bangladesh at 115<sup>th<\/sup> and Sri Lanka remained at 116<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/li>\n<li>Thus, India is far behind from its neighbors in this list.<\/li>\n<li>List does not include any Asian country in the top 10.<\/li>\n<li>Israel ranked 11<sup>th<\/sup> and United Arab Emirates ranked 20<sup>th <\/sup>are among the most Happiest Asian countries.<\/li>\n<li>According to this report, Burundi ranked last in the list. Its position is 156<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/worldhappiness.report\/ed\/2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/worldhappiness.report\/ed\/2018\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/happiness-report\/2018\/WHR_web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/happiness-report\/2018\/WHR_web.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: A landmark survey of the state of global happiness-\u201cWorld Happiness Report-2018\u201d 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)\u00a0 Related Facts On March 14th, 2018, the sixth &#8216;World Happiness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}