Nigeria Ranks 91st on World Happiness Report

Nigeria Ranks 91st on World Happiness Report
Nigeria Ranks 91st on World Happiness Report

Nigeria Ranks 91st on World Happiness Report

Finland has overtaken Norway to become the happiest nation on earth, according to a UN report.

The 2018 World Happiness Report also charts the steady decline of the US as the world’s largest economy grapples with a crisis of obesity, substance abuse and depression.

The study reveals the US has slipped to 18th place, five places down on 2016. The top four places are taken by Nordic nations, with Finland followed by Norway, Denmark and Iceland.

Burundi in east Africa, scarred by bouts of ethnic cleansing, civil wars and coup attempts, is the unhappiest place in the world. Strikingly, there are five other nations – Rwanda, Yemen, Tanzania, South Sudan and the Central African Republic – which report happiness levels below that of even Syria.

For the first time the UN also examined the happiness levels of immigrants in each country, and found Finland also scored highest.

“Finland has vaulted from fifth place to the top of the rankings this year,” said the report’s authors, although they noted that the other three Nordic countries (plus Switzerland) have almost interchangeable scores.

The report, an annual publication from the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, said all the Nordic countries scored highly on income, healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom, trust and generosity. The rankings are based on Gallup polls of self-reported wellbeing, as well as perceptions of corruption, generosity and freedom.

Nigeria has ranked 91st in the World’s Happiest Country.

The list collated by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network in the 2018 World Happiness Report ranks 156 countries.

Finland comes out tops, coming from fifth place in 2017 to overtake Norway.

Burundi can be found at the very bottom, the list ranking for things such as GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, social freedom, generosity and absence of corruption.

The United States is in the 18th position with the UK in 19th.

The top ten happiest countries are:

  1. Finland.
  2. Norway.
  3. Denmark.
  4. Iceland.
  5. Switzerland.
  6. Netherlands.
  7. Canada.
  8. New Zealand.
  9. Sweden.
  10. Australia.

The 10 unhappiest countries, 2018

(2017 ranking in brackets)

147. Malawi (136)

148. Haiti (145)

149. Liberia (148)

150. Syria (152)

151. Rwanda (151)

152. Yemen (146)

153. Tanzania (153)

154. South Sudan (147)

155. Central African Republic (155)

156. Burundi (154)

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