DDHK. ORG Finland is set to be the happiest country in the world. This title has been held for six consecutive years.
Reporting from Kompas, The World Happiness Report released the list deny happiest in the past three years, from 2020 to 2022. In the report, Finland was again named the happiest country in the world in 2023.
"Finland remains in the top position, for the sixth year in a row, with a score that is significantly above other countries," reads a statement from the World Happiness Record report, quoted from its official website, Tuesday (21/3/2023).
The country scores well in terms of healthy life expectancy, per capita gross domestic product (GDP), social support, low levels of corruption, generosity in the community, and freedom in making important life decisions.
“Are they (the Finns) doing things that we want to see before and we can start doing them? Or is there something unique about their climate and history that makes them different? And luckily, at least in my opinion, the answer is the former,” said World Happiness Report co-author John Helliwell.
Helliwell said, benevolence towards others especially help foreigners reported to increase in 2021 and 2022.
In fact, the number of happiness globally is not affected by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
"Throughout these difficult years, the positive emotions remained twice as many as the negative," Helliwell said, quoted by CNN.
It was further said that positive social feelings of support were noted to be twice as strong as feelings of loneliness.
The data in this report comes from the Gallup World Poll, part of an analytics and research company based in Washington DC, United States of America.
Based on the results of the 2023 World Happiness Report, indicators for assessing the happiest country in the world are based on three aspects, including aspects of life evaluation, aspects of positive emotions, and aspects of negative emotions.
On the life evaluation aspect, the Gallup World Poll asked respondents to evaluate their current life as a whole. This assessment uses the Cantril ladder, measured from a scale of zero for the worst life to a scale of 10 for the best life.
In the aspect of positive emotions, the assessment is seen from the answers "yes" or "no" in emotional questions in the form of laughter, enjoyment, and interest. Meanwhile, on the negative emotional aspect, the assessment was seen from the answers "yes" or "no" in emotional questions in the form of worry, sadness, and anger.
The survey on these three indicators was administered to around 1.000 respondents in each country.
However, unfortunately this assessment is still considered too broad, considering that there are many countries with similar averages. Therefore, a survey was conducted involving six key variables to explain life evaluation indicators.
The six variables are GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom, generosity and corruption. In the results of the survey, it was obtained that the average evaluation aspect of life in the period 2022 to 2022, Finland is ranked first out of around 150 countries in the world.
Quoted from Forbes, the implementation of this survey and rating is supervised by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network. The results of this survey are released annually in commemoration of the International Day of Happiness which is celebrated every March 20. [DDHK News]
