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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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[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 84 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It is like being a Nazi does not make you happy. Imagine that.

[–] Embargo@lemm.ee 70 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I dunno, man. Israel being 8th is pretty fucked up.

If you had a territory where you could sort mostly the wealthy people into one "country" and mostly the poor people into another "country", you could make one really happy and one really sad country.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm sure if they counted the Arab population in the calculation, it would be much lower.

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Israel has dived head first into being Nazis and they're almost all fucking about it. They're just happy they get to ~~exterminate the jews~~ be the ones doing the extermination this time.

The 'problem' the US has is only 1/3 of us have embraced being nazis, while another 1/3 doesn't give a shit.

[–] Mniot@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago

There's substantial Israelis who aren't calling for genocide. But it's like the US after 9-11 and they've mostly gone into hiding because the right-wing media presence is so overpowering and successful on the "with us or against us" message.

[–] LNRDrone@sopuli.xyz 24 points 1 day ago

Maybe it's more of a oh shit I have to appear happy with everything or the Israel gestapo will get me kind of thing. The human element on these things means there's always some amount of bending the truth or out right bullshit in the data they use for this.

[–] polycrome@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Can confirm: the Nazi bar sucks. They card you to leave.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Finland technically doesn't have complete separation of religion from state and has a really proto-fascist set of state symbols, though, part from the Russian Empire, part from the White Guard.

Just since it's a functioning nation, these things don't affect it much.

Also unlike, say, Sweden, Finland never fully jumped on the multiculturalism train and such.

One can say honesty and true moderation make you happy.

I've never been in Finland, though, what I can say of why being in Estonia (not living there though) makes you feel happy - it's like Russia in my childhood (hard to explain), but clean and fixed and without tasteless expensive things everywhere (ugly malls, ugly decoration, ugly everything, people deciding on how things look nice in Russia have taste worse than average ; maybe in Moscow this is simply because people with money who moved there from outside think this is how things are done in Moscow, people don't just live here, it's a matter of prestige that a fscking barbershop should look like a mafia meeting place or Gringotts bank entrance, btw bank offices are actually kinda normal in appearance ; and places you need to actually visit are behind some unnumbered door under a leaking pipe). Still many bad things feel similar to Russia too, but that's likely just autistic experience.