World's happiest countries for 2023: Evaluation

The latest report on world happiness and for once benevolence is about 25%higher  than it was pre-pandemic. 

In an interview with CNN, John Helliwell an author of the world happiness report stated,  "Benevolence to others, especially the helping of strangers, which went up dramatically in 2021, stayed high in 2022." 

"Even during these difficult years, positive emotions have remained twice as prevalent as negative ones, and feelings of positive social support twice as strong as those of loneliness." 

The report, which is a publication of the UN Sustainable  Development Solutions Network , draws on a global survey data from people in more than 150 countries. 

Countries are ranked on happiness  depending on their life evaluations. 

For the sixth year in a  row, Finland is the world's most happiest country   as per rankings  on life evaluations from the Gallup world poll. 

The Nordic country   and its neighbors Denmark, Iceland, Sweden and  Norway all score very well on the measures the report  uses to explain its findings  like healthy life expectancy , GDP per capita, social support, low corruption and the freedom to make key life decisions. 

Israel moves to No.4 this year  from its No.9 ranking from last year. The Netherlands earned the  5th spot , Switzerland (No.8) Luxembourg(No.9) and New Zealand rounds up the top 10. 

Australia comes at (No.12), Canada (No.13), Ireland (No.14) the United States(No.15) and the United Kingdom (No.19) so if you sum it up all made it in the top 20. 

While the same countries tend to appear in the top 20 category from year to year, there is a new entry Lithuania.  

Also the Baltic nation has been climbing steadily  over the past six years  from No.52 in 2017 to No.20 on the latest list.  Estonia and Latvia are  part of this too.