Instead they should turn their heads west towards Scandinavian countries, which yet again dominate as the world’s most cheerful nations. There’s change at the top though as last year’s winner, Norway, has been toppled by its grinning neighbor Finland in this year’s World Happiness Report, released annually by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network. The report ranks 156 countries across six factors including GDP, life expectancy, social support, generosity, freedom and corruption. And this year for the first time the UN has also assessed the happiness levels of immigrants in 117 of those countries. With a high ratio of immigrants now also calling Finland home, the World Happiness Report made particular mention of the consistency in happiness between them and local born residents.

Source: Forbes March 27, 2018 12:56 UTC