{"id":21731,"date":"2024-03-21T06:19:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T00:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21731"},"modified":"2025-04-06T14:13:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T08:43:36","slug":"world-happiness-report-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/world-happiness-report-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"World Happiness Report 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Overview:<\/h3>\n<h4>Finland has once again claimed the title of the world&#8217;s happiest country for the seventh consecutive year, according to the annual UN-sponsored World Happiness Report released recently.<\/h4>\n<h2>About World Happiness Report<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0annual World Happiness Report is a\u00a0partnership of Gallup, the\u00a0Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre, the\u00a0UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), and the\u00a0World Happiness Report&#8217;s Editorial Board.<\/li>\n<li>It is based on\u00a0global survey data from people based on\u00a0people&#8217;s own assessments of their happiness, as well as economic and social data.<\/li>\n<li>The report considers\u00a0six key factors:\u00a0social support, income, health, freedom,\u00a0generosity, and the\u00a0absence of corruption.<\/li>\n<li>It assigns a happiness score\u00a0based on an average of data over a three-year period.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Highlights of World Happiness Report 2024\n<ul>\n<li>The Nordic nations continue to\u00a0dominate the top rankings.\u00a0Finland topped the list for the seventh year in a row.<\/li>\n<li>The other top 10 countries are Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, Israel, Netherlands, Norway, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and Australia.<\/li>\n<li>Out of the 143 countries surveyed,\u00a0Afghanistan remained at the bottom of the list.<\/li>\n<li>For the first time in over a decade, the United States and Germany have slipped out of the top 20 happiest nations, landing at 23rd and 24th place, respectively.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The report underscores a change wherein the\u00a0happiest countries no longer include any of the world&#8217;s most populous nations. Only the Netherlands and Australia, both with populations exceeding 15 million, are present in the top 10.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Where does India stand?\n<ul>\n<li>India is\u00a0ranked 126th on the list, the\u00a0same as last year, in the happiness index.<\/li>\n<li>Older age is\u00a0associated with higher life satisfaction in India.<\/li>\n<li>The report said that\u00a0older Indian men, particularly those\u00a0in higher age brackets, presently\u00a0married,\u00a0and\u00a0those with an education, tend to report greater life satisfaction\u00a0compared to their counterparts.<\/li>\n<li>However,\u00a0older women in India\u00a0report lower life satisfaction than older\u00a0men.<\/li>\n<li>Satisfaction with living arrangements, perceived discrimination, and self-rated health emerged as the top three predictors of life satisfaction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)?<\/h3>\n<p>It was launched in 2012 under the auspices of the UN Secretary-General. SDSN mobilizes global scientific and technological expertise to promote practical solutions for sustainable development, including the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement. SDSN works closely with United Nations agencies, multilateral financing institutions, the private sector, and civil society.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240419174101\/https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/rest-of-world\/worlds-happiest-countries-full-list-and-where-india-stands\/articleshow\/108633024.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>World&#8217;s happiest countries 2024: Full list and where India stands<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Happiness Index, by Oxford&#8217;s Wellbeing Research Centre, Gallup &#038; UN SDSN, ranks global happiness based on key well-being factors annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}