The World Happiness Report for 2025 was recently released this month – and revealed that the United States is not only leaking behind other countries in North America, but also in many European countries.
The study, which is published every year by the Welfare Research Center at Oxford University, is largely classified as northern European countries. The subject of this year's report is “the impact of interest and participation on people's happiness,” according to the study.
Many factors, including inequality, generosity, freedom, expectation and corruption perceptions, all contribute to classifications – but one question is evaluated greatly by researchers.
“Our global happiness classification is based on one question that asks people to evaluate the quality of their lives on a scale of 0-10,” explains the site.
The World Happiness Report for 2025 found that the United States is behind other countries in terms of contentment. (Istock)
Here's how to arrange the best 25 countries, on a large scale from more to least happiness:
1. Finland
2. Denmark
3. Iceland
4. Sweden
5. The Netherlands
6. Costa Rica
7. Norway
8. Israel
9. Luxembourg
10. Mexico
11. Australia
12. New Zealand
13. Switzerland
14. Belgium
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Denmark, a country from the north, was classified in the World Happiness Report for 2025. (Istock)
15. Ireland
16. Lithuania
17. Austria
18. Canada
19. Slovenia
20. Czechia
21. United Arab Emirates
22, Germany
23. UK
24. United States
25. Please
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Finland occupied the happiest country for years in a row. (Ronnie Ricoma/Bloomberg via Getti Emaiz)
The United States has ranked a low class in study over the past few years, although it is ranked eleventh, the happiest country in 2011. The study also ranked 115th, as the study asks the participants, “Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with your freedom to choose what you are doing in your life?”
Despite its low happiness and freedom of arrangement, the United States is proud of the high GDP at $ 76,276 per person, and ranks fourth for GDP. The United States also ranked twelfth and sixteenth in social support and generosity, respectively.
“The increasing number of people who eat alone is one of the reasons for lower luxury in the United States,” the study indicates that the decrease in happiness and social confidence in the United States “explains a large share of the rise in political polarization and sounds against the” regime. “
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The Scandinavian countries ranked high in terms of general happiness. (Istock)
On the other hand, Finland has occupied a classification at the top of the Global Happiness Report since 2018. The study is attributed to “high -quality health, education and social systems”, and concluded that inequality in luxury is low in the country.
The main visions of the study concluded that “our annual happiness arrangement is, once again, led by the northern European countries, where Finland is still first.” “North countries rank first among the best places for the expected and actual return of the lost wallets.”
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