ArmInfo. Among the 143 countries of the world included in the United Nations' World Happiness Report 2024, which provides the most diverse picture of happiness every year, Armenia ranks 82nd, compared to 79th a year ago.
At the same time, according to the Report, Armenia is the "happiest" in our region. In particular, Georgia ranks 91st , Trkiye- 98th, Iran - 100th and Azerbaijan - 101st. While Kazakhstan leads in the EAEU with 49th place, followed by Russia (72nd), Kyrgyzstan (75th). There is no Belarus in the current year's ranking. Among the remaining countries of the post-Soviet space, the highest level of happiness is registered in Uzbekistan (47th), followed by Moldova (71st), Tajikistan (88th ) and Ukraine (105th). At the same time, the TOP- 5 happiest countries in the world included Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden and Israel, while Afghanistan remains bottom of the overall rankings as the world's 'unhappiest' nation.
"The World Happiness Report is a partnership of Gallup, the Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and the WHR's Editorial Board. The report is produced under the editorial control of the WHR Editorial Board.
The World Happiness Report reflects a worldwide demand for more attention to happiness and well- being as criteria for government policy. It reviews the state of happiness in the world today and shows how the science of happiness explains personal and national variations in happiness.
Life evaluations from the Gallup World Poll provide the basis for the annual happiness rankings. They are based on answers to the main life evaluation question. The Cantril Ladder asks respondents to think of a ladder, with the best possible life for them being a 10 and the worst possible life being a 0. They are then asked to rate their own current lives on that 0 to 10 scale. The rankings are from nationally representative samples over three years.
We use observed data on the six variables and estimates of their associations with life evaluations to explain the variation across countries. They include GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom, generosity, and corruption. Our happiness rankings are not based on any index of these six factors - the scores are instead based on individuals' own assessments of their lives, in particular, their answers to the single-item Cantril ladder life-evaluation question, much as epidemiologists estimate the extent to which life expectancy is affected by factors such as smoking, exercise, and diet. On 2 April 2012, , the first World Happiness Report was presented. The World Happiness Report is released annually around March 20th as part of the International Day of Happiness celebration.".