Top 20 Happiest Countries in the World 2019

United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network just released the report of 2019 World Happiness Report. Finland is ranked No. 1 for the second year in a row among other 156 countries, followed by Denmark, Norway, Iceland. Japan is ranked 58. USA is in the 19. How about the performance of world’s other big countries within the 156 countries? Here we extract a list for top 20 happiest countries with some information about the remaining rankings of other countries in the world you may be interested to know.

As per the report’s analysis, GDP has no direct relation to the happiest countries. The report uses six key variables to measure the degree of well-being of the people in the various countries.

6 Key Variables that Support Happiness and Well-being

• income

• freedom

• trust

• healthy life expectancy

• social support

• generosity

Those very top happiest countries are those mainly from Northern Europe. The remaining countries with rankings from 5-10 are the Netherlands, Sweden, New Zealand, Canada and Austria.

Top 10 countries do very well in the six variables as well as emotional measures of well-being. People in those countries, including native-born and immigrants feel the happiness as well. Happiness spread through the atmosphere in the place. As seen in last year, the Finns were the luckier and happier people in the world, both the native Finns and new Finns.

What’s the characteristics of those countries with the happiest people? They have a trusted government. People are in the protection of a social safety net. And they live in freedom and are generous to care for each other.

Where are those countries which have big power in the world comparatively? UK sits in the 15^th place. Germany takes the 17^th place. Russia is in the 68^th place. While US is in the 19^th place in the year, where is the world’s another big economy? That Asia’s big economy has got the position near to 100.

The happiness of people in a country is influenced by many factors. The report takes into consideration among income, generosity, social support, freedom and corruption who can make up the happiness for a country. In recent past years, the happiness was largely evolved from the significant influence by technologies, conflicts and government policies. So that we can see why some of the countries fall in the top of the list and some others are ranked the lowest.

The below list is the extract about the top 20 happiest countries in the world.

TOP 20 Happiest Countries in the World

1. Finland

2. Denmark

3. Norway

4. Iceland

5. Netherlands

6. Switzerland

7. Sweden

8. New Zealand

9. Canada

10. Austria

11. Australia

12. Costa Rica

13. Israel

14. Luxembourg

15. United Kingdom

16. Ireland

17. Germany

18. Belgium

19. United States

20. Czech Republic

This latest World Happiest Report is released on the World’s Happiness Day by UN on 20 March 2019.