2025-03-20
36 分钟Pushkin Happy International Day of Happiness.
The world has been marking March 20 as a day dedicated to happiness for over a decade,
part of a worldwide push to get governments to take happiness more seriously and to enact policies that improve our well being.
International Day of Happiness also marks the release of the World Happiness Report.
And the Happiness Lab has been given early access to all the new research this report contains.
And over the next two episodes we've got lots of highlights,
including things you can do right now to improve your life.
The most famous headline grabbing part of each year's World Happiness Report are the country rankings.
People around the world are asked, on a scale of 1 to 10, how satisfied are you with your life?
The crown for the happiest people usually goes to a country somewhere in Scandinavia.
And this year the happiest country is Finland.
Finland again.
We're closely followed by Denmark and Iceland and Sweden.
Sweden and the Netherlands, I think.
This is Jan Emanuel Denev,
professor of Economics and Behavioral Science at the University of Oxford and editor of the World Happiness Report.
During the years he studied these country data, he's noticed some changes.
The rankings used to be dominated by the big rich nations, but all that's changing.
Mexico and Costa Rica enter the top 10.
Wow.