The UN's World Happiness Report ranks Denmark as the second happiest country, a position it has maintained since 2019. This ranking, based on Gallup World Poll data, reflects the average life evaluations from around 100,000 participants in 130 countries. The report utilizes a Cantril ladder survey to gauge life satisfaction. Senior Analyst Catarina Lachmund notes that while a country cannot be universally declared happy, average happiness levels can be assessed. Nordic countries often dominate these rankings, credited to their successful welfare policies that prioritize citizen wellbeing and minimize suffering in lower happiness brackets.
Catarina Lachmund, Senior Analyst at the Happiness Research Institute, stated, 'You can't name a whole country as happy but you can ask the people in the country if they're happy or not and then say if an average population is happier than other average populations. That is what the UN Happiness report does well.'
Lachmund emphasized, 'In general, the Nordic model turns out to be doing a lot of good for its citizens. There's a lot they are doing correctly, mainly funnelling wealth into wellbeing.'
Lachmund noted, 'If you look into the scales of 0-10 in the Nordics, it's not that a lot of answers are ranked 7 and higher, it's that there are not many answers in the lower rank, so there aren't as many people suffering.'
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