Finland is named the happiest country in the world for the eighth year in a row, according to the World Happiness Report 2025 published Thursday.

Other Nordic countries are also once again at the top of the happiness rankings in the annual report published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford. Besides Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Sweden remain the top four and in the same order.

Country rankings were based on answers people give when asked to rate their own lives. The study was done in partnership with the analytics firm Gallup and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

When it comes to decreasing happiness — or growing unhappiness —the United States has dropped to its lowest-ever position at 24, having previously peaked at 11th place in 2012. The report states that the number of people dining alone in the United States has increased 53% over the past two decades.

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  • Dasus@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    And this isn’t the first time you do this.

    I be asserted this several times because I know my shit and what the study is actually about.

    You alway come in to deny deny deny deny

    EXACTLY the sort of willful ignorance

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      13 hours ago

      I’m sorry but I’m not sure what you are talking about here. Are you saying we had this conversation last year?

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        13 hours ago

        Honestly.

        The lengths you will go to avoid seeing how the system in Finland literally TORTURED me for DAYS and NO-ONE CAN EVEN ACCEPT IT HAPPENED, LIKE YOU.

        It’s beyond delusional.

        https://ibb.co/fzF4w32J

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          13 hours ago

          What the fuck are you talking about, I have no idea who you are or what happened to you

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            13 hours ago

            Case in point.

            Thanks for showing people rhe extent of your willful ignorance

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                13 hours ago

                You’re purposefully avoiding all criticism of Finland.

                Exactly my point

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                    12 hours ago

                    Read the conversation back and see how many times you’ve even implicitly acknowledged I was stuck in a cell writing with blood on the walls, breaking my basic human rights.

                    The fact that I have to actually spell it out for you IS the problem.