The United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s annual World Happiness Report graded 156 countries in regard to six evidences namely per capita income, life anticipation, social assistance, independence, charity and dishonesty. The seventh World Happiness Report concentrates on happiness and society. The important thing being questioned in this year’s report hinges how happiness has been varying over the past years, and how intelligence technology, administration and friendly standard have influenced communities. This year’s report also broadly considers some of the major forces that influence happiness by changing the ways in which communities and their members interact with each other. The report looks at three sets of factors to notice this, which include the links between government and happiness, the power of commonly behavior, and changes in information technology.
Finland was one more time ranked as the happiest country in the world. Denmark, Norway and Iceland closely tied to the second, third and fourth positions, respectively. South Sudan took the last place in the ranking. Pakistan is among the top 20 gainers on the World Happiness index this year, ranked at 67th position, a climb of eight spots from last year’s ranking at 75. Pakistan ranks highest among all of its neighbours again this year. India ranks at 140. China is at 93, Iran at 117, Iraq at 126 and Afghanistan is at 154. Bangladesh is ranked 125. It is among the top 20 gainers on the index, connected by the Philippines, and countries from Europe, Africa and Latin America. Among the 20 largest failures are countries from the Middle East, Africa, Western Europe, India, Malaysia, Venezuela and Ukraine. The information also underlines the percentage of interviewee in different countries that report donating to charity or doing volunteer work over the past month. In Pakistan, around 32.8 percent of all- comers reported donating to a charity, while 14.2 percent reported offering within the 30-day period. According to the sixth World Happiness Report, Islamabad is 58 points in front of India, 11 points in advance of China, 31 of Iran, and 70 points before Afghanistan on the grading table of happiness.
It discovered that junior who spent more time with digital apparatus were less happy. The problem of migration was positioned at the heart of the 2018 report, which also ranked 117 countries according to the happiness of their immigrants. The most remarkable finding of the report is the remarkable agreement between the happiness of immigrants and the locally born. The study found that the 10 happiest countries in the overall rankings also scored highest on immigrant happiness. The World Happiness Report was compiled by a group of self- determined experts acting in their personal capacities. Any points of view stated in this report do not fundamentally depict the opinion of any organization, agency or programme of the United Nations.
Pakistan must have increased in the appraisal of the happy people of the world after the reassessment that it is among only 20 countries to have improved their position on the World. It is observed that the status has been secured with people in this country, except a few, not being conscious of their state of happiness. A sure prescription for happy comfort for Pakistanis, the record seems to be the result of substantial efforts ventured by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network. It is evident that Pakistan must have done appreciably well on all or most of these enumeration to make the grade. Higher trust in our capabilities, a little more independence and charitable self- confidence to control suspicion could push us further increase in future happiness number among. It has also evidenced that there has been an increase in adverse feeling, as well as concern, grief and wrath. The overall world happiness has declined over the past few years, which has largely been nourished by a persistent drop in India, which came in 140th place this year compared with 133rd place in 2018. People in war- ravaged South Sudan are the most not happy with their lives, succeeded by Central African Republic 155, Afghanistan 154, Tanzania 153 and Rwanda 152.The happiness study ranks the countries of the world on the ground of questions from the Gallup World Poll. The outcome are then associated with other associated, GDP and friendly security. The United States ranks at 19th position for happiness, in spite of being one of the wealthiest countries in the world. Overdose trouble in US history is the deadliest drug. Between 2016 solitary, drug overdoses killed more Americans than the whole Vietnam War and car accidents, gun savagery, HIV and AIDS once did in a single year. Altogether, in excess 170 people are assumed to die from overdoses each day in the US, and most of the deaths are linked to physiological dependence.
Report discloses the countries whose residents say they are the happiest and least happy. The 10 happiest countries are the following are: Finland, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Netherland, Switzerland, Sweden, New Zealand, Canada and Austria. The 10 least happy countries are with 1 being the least happy are: South Sudan, Central African Republic, Afghanistan, Tanzania, Rwanda, Yemen, Malawi, Syria and Botswana. India’s happiness ranking declines to 140; rear end Pakistan, China, Bangladesh factors that determine the happiness levels of a country including life anticipation, social assistance, earnings, liberty, confidence, health and being generous, amidst others. India with the enhancement in population, the overall happiness has fallen globally. During 2018, India was positioned on 133 positions, but this year its ranking went down to 140. In 2015, India was on 117 spot; in 2016 it was ranked on 118 places. The position went up to 122 in 2017.