It is the eighth World Happiness Report released by the United Nations. 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.
Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020
India ranks 144 in World Happiness Report 2020 while Finland got the top rank. It covers the period of 2017-2019 and analyses the countries on the following six variables:
- GDP per capita
- Social support
- Healthy life expectancy
- Freedom to make life choices
- Generosity
- Perceptions of corruption
