Finland was voted “the happiest country in the world” for the fifth consecutive year on Friday by the “World Happiness Report” ranking, which puts Afghanistan in last place.
Costa Rica, in 23rd place, Uruguay (30) and Brazil (38) are the best placed Latin Americans in this classification. Peru is in the middle of the table, occupying position 74 out of a total of 146.
Venezuela (108) is the worst placed Latin American country, even below Iraq.
“The three most important advances were those of Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania. The strongest setbacks occurred in Lebanon, Venezuela and Afghanistan”according to the “World Happiness Report”, a study financed by the UN that has been carried out for ten years.
Finland, with a score of 7.82 out of ten, is ahead of Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland and the Netherlands, which follow on this list.
The report is based on surveys that ask people about their feeling of happiness and cross this information with GDP data, levels of individual freedom or corruption, among others.
“The lesson drawn from the report, in these ten years, is that generosity between people and honesty of governments are crucial for well-being”according to Jeffrey Sachs, one of his co-authors.
“World leaders should take it into account”, he added.
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Source: Gestion
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