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The World Happiness Report was released on March 20, rated Finland as the happiest country for the eighth consecutive year.
Other Nordic countries, including Denmark, Iceland and Sweden, also ranked highest in the same order.
Yesterday, Nigeria ranked 105 out of 147 countries as the world observed the international happiness period.
The report shows that Nigeria fell three positions from the 102 rankings in 2024, but has moved to Africa’s tenth happiest country.
This is far from Nigeria’s position in 2003, when the World Value Survey showed that Nigeria is the happiest person in the world.
In the recently released 2025 World Happiness Report, Libya became the highest ranked country in Africa, earning 79 statuses, surpassing its neighbors in life satisfaction and in the landscape of ongoing challenges, its social well-being.
The United States ranked in the top 20 for the first time last year and is now ranked 24th, as it reached the highest ranking of 11th in 2012. Happiness is not unique to the United States, as the UK now has an average lifespan of 23, with the lowest average lifespan since 2017.
The report was published in collaboration with the United Nations Network on Sustainable Development Solutions in collaboration with Gallup and the Oxford Welfare Research Center.
It examines how happiness varies among people and shows differences within and between countries. The report looks at six key variables to help explain life assessments: GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom, generosity and perceptions of corruption.
This year’s version of the report “Focus and share the impact on people’s happiness” and how happiness changes between countries and countries differ significantly between countries.
