Finland is the place to find your lost happiness in

Finland is ‘World’s Happiest’ country in the world amongst 156 countries. The World Happiness Report has been produced by United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network with the help of economists and data from the Gallup World Poll.

The aim is to find out which countries are happy and why. United Nations will be celebrating World Happiness Day on March 20.

For the last two years, the top ten countries have mostly remained the same and only adjusted ranks. The countries who top the list is due to high values for six of the main variables that contribute to overall well-being which includes income (GDP per capita), healthy life expectancy, freedom, trust (absence of corruption), social support and generosity.

The measurement of happiness is measured through the ‘Cantril ladder’ on which populations were asked to value their lives on a scale of 0 to 10.

Finland stood at the top with a Happiness scale of 7.632, followed by Norway at 7.594, Denmark at 7.555, Iceland at 7.495, Switzerland at 7.487, Netherlands at 7.441, Canada at 7.328, New Zealand at 7.324, Sweden at 7.314, Australia at 7.272

John Helliwell, economist at British Columbia University and report editor said, “The happiest countries in the world also have the happiest immigrants in the world.”

The report states that the answer to be more happy isn’t in shifting to happier places but to take lessons from happy countries and apply it to personal situations and surroundings as happiness is not in limited supply nor does it reduces upon sharing. In fact it grows when shared.