![A map showing a ranking of the world’s happiest countries in 2025.]() The
US ranks 24th in the annual World Happiness Report released today,
lagging behind Canada, Slovenia, Germany, the UAE, and the UK. That’s one spot lower than last year,
when the US dropped out of the top 20 for the first time since the
first report was published in 2012. Finland rates as the happiest
country in this year’s report, followed by Denmark, Iceland, and Sweden.
The annual report,
by Gallup, the Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre, the UN Sustainable
Development Solutions Network, and the World Happiness Report’s
editorial board, also explores the political leanings of unhappy people,
finding that dissatisfied individuals in the US and Western Europe are
attracted to the political extremes — with low-trust people gravitating
toward the far right and overly trusting individuals swinging toward the
left. |