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Finland is named the happiest country in the world for the eighth year in a row, according to the World Happiness Report 2025 published Thursday.

Other Nordic countries are also once again at the top of the happiness rankings in the annual report published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford. Besides Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Sweden remain the top four and in the same order.

Country rankings were based on answers people give when asked to rate their own lives. The study was done in partnership with the analytics firm Gallup and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

When it comes to decreasing happiness — or growing unhappiness —the United States has dropped to its lowest-ever position at 24, having previously peaked at 11th place in 2012. The report states that the number of people dining alone in the United States has increased 53% over the past two decades.

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[-] index@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 weeks ago

Wait till their government dump all public money on "defense"

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[-] LNRDrone@sopuli.xyz 0 points 4 weeks ago

I'm convinced Finns have just found a way to troll this somehow. Not that Finland isn't great and all, but it just makes more sense.

[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

According to the other comments, they ask "How are you?" ans the response is "eVeRyThInG Is gReAt" and this gets written down as a 5/5 on the happiness scale.

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[-] kerchow@lemm.ee 0 points 4 weeks ago

The United States is still at 24th, where do they rank amongst first world countries?

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[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago

As a Finn, I'd like to remind you this is 50% bullshit.

They go around asking people how they are and in Finnish culture, you're not allowed to complain, and our society sees to it that we give even substance abusers and drunks rent money, so people answer "can't complain".

Finnish people are emotionally stunted and don't even understand the concept of happiness.

[-] Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 0 points 4 weeks ago

Finnish people are emotionally stunted and don't even understand the concept of happiness.

I half agree with this. There's it's own kind of happiness in being stoic and staying to one self.

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[-] rickdg@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago

Damn socialists with their happiness. If my neighbour is happy, it makes me mad /s

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[-] shmank@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago

Dining alone makes me happy.

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[-] alkbch@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 weeks ago

There’s no way. It’s dark half the year and every Finnish people I met didn’t look happy at all, or at least they didn’t express it whatsoever.

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