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World Happiness Report 2025

In this year’s issue, we focus on the impact of caring and sharing on people’s happiness. Like ‘mercy’ in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, caring is “twice-blessed” – it blesses those who give and those who receive. In this report, we investigate both of these effects: the benefits to the recipients of caring behaviour and the benefits to those who care for others.

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We combine open-access data from over 140 countries with high-quality analysis by world-leading researchers from a wide range of academic disciplines.

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Our global happiness ranking is based on a single question that asks people to evaluate the quality of their life on a 0–10 scale. Finland has topped the rankings since 2018. How does your country compare?

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Every year, we assemble a team of world-leading researchers to explore the relationship between happiness, wellbeing, and a chosen theme. The theme for our 2025 report is caring and sharing.

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