United Nations: India has been ranked 139 out of 149 international locations in the checklist of UN World Happiness Report 2021 launched on Friday (March 19) which is topped by Finland.
The World Happiness Report 2021, issued by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, focuses on the results of COVID-19 and the way folks throughout the world have fared.
It ranks the world’s 149 international locations on “how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be”.
”Our goal was two-fold, first to deal with the results of COVID-19 on the construction and high quality of individuals’s lives, and second to explain and consider how governments throughout the world have handled the pandemic. In explicit, we attempt to clarify why some international locations have completed so a lot better than others”, UN stated in an announcement.
It stated that India is on the 139th spot in the checklist. In 2019, India was ranked one hundred and fortieth.
There have been each in-person and phone samples for India, with the in-person responses being decrease than phone responses, whereas considerably increased than in-person responses in 2019. Hence the reversal in 2020 of the longer-term slide in Indian life evaluations was not attributable to mode results, it stated.
Finland has been ranked as the happiest nation in the world. The Nordic nation is adopted by Iceland, Denmark, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Sweden, Germany and Norway.
Pakistan is on a hundred and fifth, Bangladesh on a hundred and first and China on 84th, in accordance with the report.
People in war-torn Afghanistan are the most sad with their lives, adopted by Zimbabwe (148), Rwanda (147), Botswana (146) and Lesotho (145).
The United States ranks nineteenth place for happiness, regardless of being one in every of the richest international locations in the world.
The happiness research ranks the international locations of the world on the foundation of questions from the Gallup World Poll. The outcomes are then correlated with different components, together with GDP and social safety.
