Today-Mar 22
Singapore has been ranked the 25th happiest country in the world according to the 2023 World Happiness Report, two spots higher than last year. But it seems like some Singaporeans are not too happy about that. Several online users have raised doubts over the survey findings, with some going as far as to call the results a “joke”. Released on Monday (March 20) in conjunction with the International Day of Happiness, the report is a publication by the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Solutions Network and is primarily based on Gallup World Poll data. Finland landed the top position as happiest nation for the sixth year running, followed by Denmark, Iceland, Israel, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Luxembourg and New Zealand, in order. War-torn Afghanistan and Lebanon remain the two unhappiest countries in the survey. At 25th spot, Singapore is the happiest country in Asia, followed closely by Taiwan at number 27. Other Asian countries ranked include Japan (47), Malaysia (55), Thailand (60), China, (64), Vietnam (65), the Philippines (76), Indonesia (83) and India (126).
GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom to make life choices, generosity, perceptions of corruption and dystopia were the seven key factors used to rank more than 150 countries based on their average “life evaluations”. Read more at:
https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/singapore-25th-happiest-country-2023-2135066
