World Happiness Report: Nigeria ranked the 91st happiest nation of the world, and fifth in Africa
In the 2018 World Happiness Report, Nigeria has been ranked the 91st happiest nation of the world, and fifth in Africa.
The survey was released on March 14th by the Sustainable Development
Solutions Network (SDSN) as part of the UN World Happiness Day- March
20. The 2018 report assessed 156 countries happiness levels based on six
factors per capita gross domestic product, healthy life expectancy,
freedom, generosity, social support and absence of corruption in
government or business.
The lowest countries are typically marked by low values in all six
variables. As indicated by the report, Nigerians seems to be happier
now, as the country moved up from its previous position of 95 at the
global level, and sixth in African in 2017.
In 2016, Nigeria stood at 103 position in the World and sixth in
Africa respectively in the annual global happiness index. Nigeria’s
position showed that despite its economic and security challenges, its
citizens remained happy.
Mauritius is now the happiest country in Africa, followed by
crisis-torn Libya, Algeria and Morocco respectively. The report also
indicated that Somalia, another crisis-torn nation, is Africa’s sixth
happiest country ahead of Cameroun, Gaborn and South Africa which ranked
seven, eight and nine respectively.
On the global stage, Finland is now the happiest country to stay in
the world, displacing Norway which topped the index in 2017. Norway,
Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand, Sweden
and Australia rounded out the top 10 countries respectively. The United
States happiness ranking landed in 18th place, dropping four spots from
last year. Germany stands in 15th place, United Kingdom maintains Japan
in 54th place ,and Russia and China are at positions respectively.
According to the survey, people in Burundi are unhappiest with their
lives, followed by Central African Republic (155), South Sudan (154),
Tanzania (153) and Yemen (152). Liberia, Rwanda, Malawi and Haiti and
Syria were among the bottom 10 unhappy countries. The World Happiness
Report, an initiative of the UN, is a landmark survey of the state of
global happiness, aimed at influencing government policy.
The report reviews the state of happiness in the world and shows how
the new science of happiness explains personal and national variations
in happiness. It reflects a new worldwide demand for more attention to
happiness as criteria for government policy.
No comments
Your comments and Encouragement are welcome