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World Happiness Index

The World Happiness Report is a publication of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, powered by the Gallup World Poll data. The World Happiness Report reflects a worldwide demand for more attention to happiness and well-being as criteria for government policy. It reviews the state of happiness in the world today and shows how the science of happiness explains personal and national variations in happiness.

Dataset type

Time-Series

Dataset level

Country

Last updated by source

2024-03-14

Citation

When using this dataset, please cite as:

• Helliwell, J. F., Richard Layard, J. D. S., Neve, J.-E. D., & Wang, S. (2023). World happiness report 2023 (11th ed.). New York: Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

@misc{whr1,
 author = {Helliwell, J. F. and Richard Layard, Jeffrey D. Sachs and Neve, Jan-Emmanuel De and Wang, Shun},
 last_updated = {2024-04-03},
 publisher = {New York: Sustainable Development Solutions Network},
 title = {World Happiness Report 2023 (11th ed.)},
 year = {2023}
}

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National-level average scores for subjective well-being

QoG code: whr_hap

National-level average scores for subjective well-being, as measured by answers to the Cantril ladder question asking people to evaluate the quality of their current lives on a scale of 0 to 10, where ...

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