World Happiness Report 2017 - Pakistan's ranking improved

Veer · Mar 20, 2017

The first World Happiness Report was published in April, 2012, in support of the UN High Level Meeting on happiness and well-being. Since then the world has come a long way. Increasingly, happiness is considered to be the proper measure of social progress and the goal of public policy. Now on the International Day of Happiness, March 20th, we launch the World Happiness Report 2017, once again back at the United Nations, again published by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and now supported by a generous three-year grant from the Ernesto Illy Foundation.

Ranking of Happiness by Country

Figure 2.2 (below) shows the average ladder score (the average answer to the Cantril ladder question, asking people to evaluate the quality of their current lives on a scale of 0 to 10) for each country, averaged over the years 2014-2016. Not every country has surveys in every year; the total sample sizes are reported in the statistical appendix, and they are reﬂected in Figure 2.2 by the horizontal lines showing the 95 percent confdence regions. The confdence regions are
tighter for countries with larger samples. To increase the number of countries ranked, we also include one that had no 2014-2016 surveys, but did have one in 2013. This brings the number of countries shown in Figure 2.2 to 155.

Figure 2.2: Ranking of Happiness 2014-2016

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