{"id":31403,"date":"2025-03-22T05:55:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T00:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31403"},"modified":"2025-04-16T11:41:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T06:11:15","slug":"world-happiness-index-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/world-happiness-index-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"World Happiness Index 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>World Happiness Index Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>India ranked 118th in the World Happiness Report 2025 published recently.<\/p>\n<h2>About World Happiness Index<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an annual report published by the <strong>Wellbeing Research Centre<\/strong> at the <strong>University of Oxford in partnership with Gallup<\/strong>, the <strong>United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The rankings are <strong>based on people\u2019s self-assessed life evaluations.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The World Happiness Index 2025ranked countries according to self-assessed life evaluations averaged over 2022-2024 and answers to the Cantril ladder question in the Gallup World Poll.<\/li>\n<li>It asks respondents to think of a ladder with the best possible life for them being a 10 and the worst being a zero.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They are then asked to rate their current lives on that scale.<\/li>\n<li>The study<strong> considers 6 explanatory factors for happiness: social support, GDP per capita, health life expectancy, freedom, generosity, and perception of corruption.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The study also maps whether responses indicated positive or negative emotions about the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Highlights of World Happiness Index 2025<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Finland <\/strong>is ranked as the <strong>happiest country <\/strong>in the world for the eighth consecutive year, and other <strong>Nordic countries \u2013 Denmark, Iceland, and Sweden<\/strong>, continued to r<strong>emain in the top four, in that order.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>United Kingdom<\/strong> is in the<strong> 23rd <\/strong>position, the <strong>US is 24th, a<\/strong>nd <strong>China <\/strong>stands at the <strong>68th <\/strong>position in the <strong>list of 147 countrie<\/strong>s this year.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>While Western countries dominated the top 20, especially European nations, Costa Rica and Mexico entered the top 10 for the first time, ranking at 6th and 10th respectively.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Afghanistan <\/strong>is again ranked as the <strong>unhappiest country <\/strong>in the world; this year 147th against last year&#8217;s 143rd rank (last).<\/li>\n<li>The State of Palestine is ranked 108th (103 in 2024), while Ukraine is at 111 rank (105 in 2024).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>India ranked 118 <\/strong>out of 147 countries.<\/li>\n<li>Among India&#8217;s neighbouring countries, <strong>Sri Lanka w<\/strong>as ranked at <strong>133<\/strong>, <strong>Bangladesh <\/strong>at <strong>134,Pakistan at 109<\/strong>, Nepal at 92, and China at 68.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>World Happiness Index FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Which country was ranked as the happiest in the world in the 2025 report?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Finland<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What was India&#8217;s rank in the World Happiness Index 2025?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. India ranked 118 out of 147 countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Which country was ranked as the least happy in the 2025 report?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Afghanistan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/india\/india-ranks-118th-in-world-happiness-report-afghanistan-is-last-3455378\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Happiness Index, by Oxford&#8217;s Wellbeing Research Centre, Gallup &#038; UN SDSN, ranks countries annually based on key well-being and happiness factors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31403","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\/31403","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=31403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}