Happiness has risen slightly since the pandemic began, global report finds.
to people's lives and global economies — but a major new study finds people are slightly happier than before the pandemic began.The 10th annual report, published Monday to coincide with the International Day of Happiness, surveyed over 100,000 and found that Finland was the happiest country for the sixth consecutive year, whileThe U.S. was ranked the 15th happiest nation.Driving the news:
The "undoubted pains" the world faced over the pandemic "were offset by increases in the extent to which respondents had been able to discover and share the capacity to care for each other in difficult times," according to the report. Benevolence to others has risen roughly 25% since the pandemic began, John Helliwell, a professor of economics at the University of British Columbia and a co-editor of the report,"Even during these difficult years, positive emotions have remained twice as prevalent as negative ones, and feelings of positive social support twice as strong as those of loneliness," Helliwell said inCo-author Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, director of the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford,...
However, De Neve said the decline in well-being was less than in 2014 "when Russia annexed Crimea." This was in part due to "the extraordinary rise in fellow feeling across Ukraine as picked up in data on helping strangers and donations," De Neve added.
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