There’s cause for optimism in the latest report on world happiness.
For one, benevolence is about 25 per cent higher than it was pre-pandemic.
“Benevolence to others, especially the helping of strangers, which went up dramatically in 2021, stayed high in 2022,” John Helliwell, one of the authors of the World Happiness Report, said.
For the sixth year in a row, one nation has been crowned the world’s happiest country, according to the rankings, based largely on life evaluations from the Gallup World Poll.
The country and its neighbours all score very well on the measures the report uses to explain its findings: healthy life expectancy, GDP per capita, social support, low corruption and generosity in a community where people look after each other and freedom to make key life decisions.
Click through to see the top 20 happiest countries in the world and where Australia placed.