Finland Ranks World’s Happiest Again With US at Worst-Ever Level
Country rankings are based on a three-year average of a population’s self-assessment of its quality of life.
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Finland’s unbroken streak as the world’s happiest country continued for an eighth year while the US fell to 24th place, its lowest-ever level in the global ranking.
Denmark, Iceland, Sweden and the Netherlands rounded out the top five in the rankings, which are based solely on the answers people give when asked to rate the quality of their own lives, according to researchers.