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SO BASICALLY INDEXES ARE VERY IMPORTANT

• The United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network has released the
• World Happiness Report 2019.
• The report ranks countries on six key variables that support well-being: income, freedom, trust, healthy life expectancy, social support and generosity.

WORLD HAPPINESS REPORT 2019

• The United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network ranks the world’s 156 countries on “how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be”.
• The World Happiness Report was released by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network for the United Nations on March 20, the date that the United Nations has declared to be the International Day of Happiness.

WORLD’S HAPPIEST COUNTRIES

FINDINGS OF THE REPORT

• Finland topped the index of for the second year in a row and the report notes that Finland has succeeded in generating recipe that’s not dependent on economic wealth. The United Kingdom stood at a rank of 15 (from 18 last year), Germany went down from the 15th spot to the 17th and the United States dropped from the 18th to the 19th.
• Japan, Russia and China finished at 58 (down from 54th), 68 (down from 59th ) and 93rd place (down from 86th) respectively.
• India has witnessed a sustained drop with a 140th place this year compared with the 133rd place in 2018.

INDIA’S SOUTH ASIAN NEIGHBOURS

• Pakistan ranked at 67, Bhutan at 95,
• Bangladesh at 125 ,Sri Lanka at 130 and Nepal at 100
• China – 93 and India -140

THE CURIOUS CASE OF PAKISTAN

WHY U.S PERFORMED SO POOR?

• United States dropped from the 18th to the 19th
• Addiction is partly to blame, says report co-author Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, who wrote a chapter focused on the US epidemic of addictions and unhappiness in America, a rich country where happiness has been declining.

REASONING

• This year’s report provides sobering evidence of how addictions are causing considerable unhappiness and depression in the US,” says Sachs, in a press release. “Addictions come in many forms, from substance abuse to gambling to digital media. The compulsive pursuit of substance abuse and addictive behaviors is causing severe unhappiness.“
• Social connections are weakening in the US as social media usage is raising anxiety, especially among adolescents, says Helliwell.

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