The World Happiness Report released its annual ranking of the happiest countries in the world.
Countries are ranked according to self-assessed life evaluations and answers to the Cantril ladder question which
The Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, which publishes the report, says that in addition to using the Cantril ladder question, the report also considers the following six variables in the more than 130 countries ranked in the report:While this year the top ten countries on the list remain mostly unchanged, the top 20 saw a bit more action. Costa Rica and Kuwait jumped to 12th and 13th place, respectively while the United States and Germany fell off the top 20 completely.
"It would be more accurate to say that Finland is the country that has the least unhappy people in the world," Martela tells CNBC Make It.
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