{"id":6287,"date":"2023-03-21T08:32:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T03:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6287"},"modified":"2025-03-27T13:54:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T08:24:36","slug":"world-happiness-report-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/world-happiness-report-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"World Happiness Report 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About World Happiness Report:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an annual publication of the <strong>United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is based on <strong>global survey<\/strong> data from people in <strong>more than 150 countries<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is based <strong>on people&#8217;s own assessment of their happiness<\/strong>, as well as economic and social data.<\/li>\n<li>The report considers <strong>six key factors<\/strong>: <strong>social support, income, health, freedom, generosity<\/strong>, and <strong>absence of corruption.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It assigns a happiness score <strong>based on an average of data over a three-year period.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Highlights of World Happiness Report 2023:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Finland<\/strong> has been named the <strong>happiest country in the world<\/strong> for the sixth consecutive year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>India is ranked 126<\/strong>, ten places higher than its ranking of 136 in 2022. It remains <strong>below most neighboring counties<\/strong>, including Pakistan (108) and Sri Lanka (112).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It was <strong>launched in 2012<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>under<\/strong> the auspices of the <strong>UN Secretary-General<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>SDSN <strong>mobilizes<\/strong> <strong>global scientific and technological expertise<\/strong> to promote practical <strong>solutions for sustainable development<\/strong>, including the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement.<\/li>\n<li>SDSN <strong>works closely with United Nations agencies<\/strong>, multilateral financing institutions, the private sector, and civil society.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What are Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?<\/h3>\n<p>The Sustainable Development Goals are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face, including poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/international-day-of-happiness-finland-tops-world-happiness-report-indias-ranking-is-3877247\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Finland Tops World Happiness Report, India&#8217;s Ranking Is&#8230;<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Happiness Report  is an annual publication of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6287","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\/6287","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=6287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}