Abuja - Nigeria has been ranked the 103 happiest
nation of the world, and 6th in Africa in the World
Happiness Report.
The World Happiness Report 2016 update, which
ranks 157 countries by their happiness levels, was
released in Rome on Wednesday, in advance of
UN World Happiness Day, March 20th.
As indicated by the report, Nigeria dropped from
its 78th position in the World and 2nd in Africa in
the 2015 happiness ranking.
Denmark emerged the world’s happiest place,
while Algeria, standing at 38 at the global level,
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.
The bottom 10 were; Madagascar, Tanzania,
Liberia, Guinea, Rwanda, Benin, Afghanistan,
Togo, Syria and Burundi.
South Africa and Ghana stood at 116 and 124
respectively on the Global happiness ranking.
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.
According to the report, leading experts across
fields – economics, psychology, survey analysis,
national statistics, health, public policy and more
– describe how measurements of well-being can
be used effectively to assess the progress of
nations.
Healthy years of life expectancy, GDP per capital,
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 United Nations (UN)
high level meeting on happiness and well-being.
The report was prepared by the Sustainable
Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the
Earth Institute at Columbia University.
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs is the head of the SDSN and
special advisor to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-
moon.

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