{"id":93879,"date":"2020-03-28T07:05:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T07:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=93879"},"modified":"2020-03-28T07:05:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T07:05:40","slug":"world-happiness-report-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/world-happiness-report-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"World Happiness Report 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Consider the following statement:<\/strong><br> (1)    Finland is ranked as the world\u2019s happiest nation for the third consecutive year.<br> (2)    Indiaranked dropped to 144 from the last year 140.<br> <strong>Choose the correct one:<\/strong><br> (a)    Only(1)<br> (b)    Only(2)<br> (c)    Both (1) and (2)<br> (d)    None of the above<br> <strong>Answer:(c)<br> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0March, 2020,The\u00a0<strong>Sustainable Development Solutions Network<\/strong>\u00a0for the United Nations released the World Happiness Report <\/li><li>The\u00a0<strong>International Day of Happiness<\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0celebrated\u00a0worldwide every year on 20 March.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Report highlights:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The World Happiness Report is a landmark survey\nof the state of global happiness that ranks 156 countries by how happy their\ncitizens perceive themselves to be.<\/li><li>The World Happiness Report 2020 for the first\ntime ranks cities around the world by their subjective well-being and digs more\ndeeply into how the social, urban and natural environments combine to affect\nour happiness<\/li><li>The&nbsp;rankings based on polling&nbsp;(Gallup\nWorld Poll) considers six variables to derive the rank:&nbsp;GDP per capita,\nsocial support, healthy life expectancy, freedom, generosity, and absence of\ncorruption.<\/li><li>The 2020 Report&nbsp;for the first time ranked\ncities&nbsp;around the world by their subjective well-being and looked into how\nthe social, urban and natural environments combine to affect happiness.<\/li><li>Finland&nbsp;is ranked as the world\u2019s happiest\nnation for the third consecutive year.<\/li><li>Other countries in top 10 are\nDenmark,Switzerland,Iceland,Norway,Netherlands,Sweden,New Zealand,Austria and\nLuxembourg.<\/li><li>Zimbabwe, South Sudan and Afghanistan are\nclassified as the world\u2019s least happy nations.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Indian Context:<\/strong><br>\n<br>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>India, previously ranked at 140 dropped to\n144.<\/strong><\/li><li>India\u2019s global position in Happiness Index is\nlower than its neighbouring countries Nepal (92), Pakistan(66), Bangladesh(107)\nand Sri Lanka(130).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-life\/finland-is-again-worlds-happiest\/article31124323.ece\">https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-life\/finland-is-again-worlds-happiest\/article31124323.ece<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Day_of_Happiness\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Day_of_Happiness<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/worldhappiness.report\/ed\/2020\/\">https:\/\/worldhappiness.report\/ed\/2020\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Consider the following statement: (1) Finland is ranked as the world\u2019s 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\u00a0March, 2020,The\u00a0Sustainable Development Solutions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93879","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\/93879","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=93879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93879\/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\/93880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93879"}],"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=93879"},{"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=93879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}