Nigeria Missing as List of 20 Happiest Countries In The World In 2024 Emerges
- The federal republic of Nigeria has missed out on the list of the 20 happiest countries in the world in 2024
- Finland was named the happiest country in the world closely followed by Denmark, Iceland and Sweden in the top four
- The happiest countries ranking was based on six factors — social support, income, health, freedom, generosity and absence of corruption
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Finland has been named the happiest country in the world, while Nigeria is missing from the list of the 20 happiest countries in the world in 2024.
The World Happiness Report ranks global happiness in more than 140 countries around the world annually since its inception in 2012.
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As reported by Forbes, the ranking is based on six factors —social support, income, health, freedom, generosity and absence of corruption.
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According to World Happiness Report 2024, the Nordic countries occupied the top spots with Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Sweden in the top four.
The other Nordic country, Norway, was ranked number seven to round up the top ten.
John Helliwell, a founding editor of the World Happiness Report and an emeritus professor of economics at the Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia, said Finland has a lot working for its social conditions for happiness, CNN reported.
“And you find out Finland’s pretty rich in all of those things like wallets being returned if they’re dropped in the street, people helping each other day in and day out, very high quality and universally distributed health and education opportunities — so everyone more or less comes out of the starting gate the same”
World’s 20 happiest countries in 2024
1. Finland
2. Denmark
3. Iceland
4. Sweden
5. Israel
6. Netherlands
7. Norway
8. Luxembourg
9. Switzerland
10. Australia
11. New Zealand
12. Costa Rica
13. Kuwait
14. Austria
15. Canada
16. Belgium
17. Ireland
18. Czechia
19. Lithuania
20. United Kingdom
Nigeria ranks 8th on list of happiest African countries
Legit.ng earlier reported that the 2023 World Happiness Report ranked Nigeria as the eighth happiest country on the continent of Africa. Finland is the happiest country in the world for the sixth consecutive time.
The data was primarily from the Gallup World Poll and based on respondent ratings of their own lives while the United Nations measured national happiness to arrive at the report.
The ranking assigned a happiness score on a scale of zero to 10, based on an average over three years.
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