A new global report says that people in Finland are the happiest in the world. The northern European country is leading the world in happiness for the eighth year in a row.

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.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    “I already said I have no capability of forming my opinion. What more do you want from me [to prove your point about Finns being unable to form their own opinions]”.

    Nothing, really. Your incapability to answer direct and simple questions put to you is proof of what I’ve been saying all along. That’s why I’ve said it. And that’s why were at the limit. There is no limit to the amathia of the vast majority of Finns. It’s endemic. And you exemplify it perfectly.

    “No I have no idea how you could have gotten a finger like that, despite your pages and pages of explicit explanation.”

    “No I have no idea how someone could manage to mangle them so badly as to write MORE THAN A NOVEL’S WORTH with their own blood on the walls while under ‘supervision for their safety’.”

    “I just can’t form an opinion until the government tells me to.”

    You know I enjoyed the military as well, but I’m assuming you weren’t put into AUK with that amount of cognitive capability.