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Finland was elected this Friday for the fourth consecutive year the “Happiest country in the world”, ahead of Denmark, Switzerland and Iceland, in a world ranking of well-being that has been affected in disparate ways by the pandemic.
Germany ranks 13th, Canada 14th, the UK 17th, the United States 19th and Spain 27th. Europe monopolizes nine of the top ten places.
Costa Rica is the first Latin American country on this list, in 16th place, followed by Uruguay (31st), Brazil (35th), Mexico (36th) and Panama (41st), in a list of 149 nations that takes into account data from the last three years.
chili appears in the 43rd, falling four places in relation to the same list of 2020, year in which our country ranked 39th.
The 149th country, that is, the most unhappy according to this list, is Afghanistan, a nation subjected to decades of wars and conflicts, accompanied in the last positions by several African countries.
Happiness, freedom
The authors of the study, sponsored by United Nations and which has been published since 2012, they use Gallup company polls that question respondents about their perception of happiness and cross these data with GDP figures, data on individual freedom, corruption and others to arrive at a result.
Comparing this list with others prior to the pandemic, the study authors verify that there have been “A significantly higher frequency of negative emotions” in a third of countries.
However, 22 countries do not perceive a decline in well-being or in the perception that people have of their own lives, sums up, surprised, John Helliwell, one of the authors of the study.
“One possible explanation is that people see covid-19 as a common and external threat that hurts everyone and that has generated a greater sense of solidarity and empathy,” said the expert.
Public services and solidarity
Despite the long winters and the fact that its inhabitants have a reputation for not being expressive and very lonely, Finland has a high standard of living, well-functioning public services, many forests and lakes, and has very positive indices for solidarity and the fight against poverty and inequality.
Finland achieves a score of 7.84 out of 10, and for the first time the Netherlands enters the “top 5” by occupying the fifth place in the latest edition of this “World Happiness Report”
Finland is also one of the developed countries with the best balance against covid, as the country has reached high levels “in mutual trust measures that have helped protect lives during the pandemic,” according to the study.
For a decade now, the European Nordic countries have consistently ranked at the top of this ranking: before Finland, Norway It was the happiness leader in 2017 and Denmark held that first place for a long time.
Among the great powers, India ranks lowest at 139th.
In Africa, the highest ranked country is the Republic of the Congo, ranked 83rd. From Asia, the first to appear is Taiwan (24th).
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