According to the latest World Happiness Report, Nigerians are now the sixth happiest people in Africa, dropping from a 2015 high of being the 78th happiest people in the world and the second in Africa. The 2016 World Happiness Report, which ranks 157 countries by their happiness levels, was released in Rome yesterday in advance of the UN World Happiness Day due on March 20.
In the report, Denmark emerged the world’s happiest place, while Algeria, standing at 38 maintains its position as the happiest place in Africa. Mauritius is now the second happiest country in Africa, followed by Libya, Morocco and Tunisia respectively.
According to the report, eight sub-Saharan countries were among the 10 least happy places on earth to live. At the bottom of the table, the 10 unhappiest countries included Madagascar, Tanzania, Liberia, Guinea, Rwanda, Benin, Afghanistan, Togo, Syria and Burundi, while South Africa and Ghana stood at 116 and 124 respectively on the global happiness ranking.
A United Nations initiative, the World Happiness Report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness, aimed at influencing government policy. It reviews the state of happiness in the world and shows how the new science of happiness explains personal and national variations in happiness.
It also reflects a new worldwide demand for more attention to happiness as criteria for government policy. According to the report, leading experts across certain fields including economics, psychology, survey analysis, national statistics, health and public policy describe how measurements of well-being can be used effectively to assess the progress of nations.
Healthy years of life expectancy, gross domestic product per capita, social support, perceived absence of corruption in government and business freedom to make life decisions and generosity are some of the factors the report considers. The first world happiness report was published in support of the April 2, 2012.
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