Finland is again ranked the happiest country in the world. The US falls to its lowest-ever position
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Finland is named the happiest country in the world for the eighth year in a row, according to the World Happiness Report 2025 published Thursday.
Other Nordic countries are also once again at the top of the happiness rankings in the annual report published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford. Besides Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Sweden remain the top four and in the same order.
Country rankings were based on answers people give when asked to rate their own lives. The study was done in partnership with the analytics firm Gallup and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
When it comes to decreasing happiness — or growing unhappiness —the United States has dropped to its lowest-ever position at 24, having previously peaked at 11th place in 2012. The report states that the number of people dining alone in the United States has increased 53% over the past two decades.
How shitty are things in India when...
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Finland is named the happiest country in the world for the eighth year in a row, according to the World Happiness Report 2025 published Thursday.
Other Nordic countries are also once again at the top of the happiness rankings in the annual report published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford. Besides Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Sweden remain the top four and in the same order.
Country rankings were based on answers people give when asked to rate their own lives. The study was done in partnership with the analytics firm Gallup and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
When it comes to decreasing happiness — or growing unhappiness —the United States has dropped to its lowest-ever position at 24, having previously peaked at 11th place in 2012. The report states that the number of people dining alone in the United States has increased 53% over the past two decades.
US here.
I'm betting we'll be outright giddy this year compared to next year.
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US here.
I'm betting we'll be outright giddy this year compared to next year.
I don't think so. Next year being sad will be illegal.
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meanwhile, in America...
"oooh, unhappiness? how dreadfully monetizeable!"
starts big pharma antidepressants corporation
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Distance will not provide you any additional safety when the nukes start flying anyway. Come back and your last time here with us.
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US here.
I'm betting we'll be outright giddy this year compared to next year.
What you don’t want to live in a Christo-fascist dictatorship with no eggs, and lots of measles, where you get sent to Guantanamo Bay for not retweeting Elon Musk’s or Trump’s latest Nazi rant?
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Well sure, but the summer actually makes up for it.
(Personally: I'm from Finland, have had depression with seasonal pattern. Winters aren't that bad, early/late winter sucks though. Psychochemically, because the day length is noticeably changing and sleeping patterns get disturbed. Socially, because all sidewalks and walking paths get really slippery no matter how much sand and gravel they put there and going outside gets a bit scarier.)
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Finland is named the happiest country in the world for the eighth year in a row, according to the World Happiness Report 2025 published Thursday.
Other Nordic countries are also once again at the top of the happiness rankings in the annual report published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford. Besides Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Sweden remain the top four and in the same order.
Country rankings were based on answers people give when asked to rate their own lives. The study was done in partnership with the analytics firm Gallup and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
When it comes to decreasing happiness — or growing unhappiness —the United States has dropped to its lowest-ever position at 24, having previously peaked at 11th place in 2012. The report states that the number of people dining alone in the United States has increased 53% over the past two decades.
Finland isnt ”happy” but less miserable than other countries. Though our current gov is cutting from the poor and education to make economy numbers look better. Worse times are coming.
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Oh so that's the secret, I thought there was something fishy about this, very clever and well played.
Many East European countries use the same strategy, but I'm guessing they don't find a corpse as hilarious.
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Nope. Just asking who peed in your cornflakes today.
Why?
Because I can't be criticising me being tortured and that torture being ignore by literally every single Finnish person I know isn't a good enough reason to be annoyed, someone must have "pissed in my breakfast".
For your info, I can't eat milk anymore. The PTSD I got was so bad my GI symptoms got wildly over fucked and now I'm on a really restrictive diet.
But hey.
At least you made a comment you think is wisecrackin as fuck. "Put me in my place", right, gansta?
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A long fucking story that no Finns believe.
Despite me still having the scars and photos to prove it.
Cops deleted the video material.
Tried charging them and reaching out to oikeuasiamies the ombudsman, and they refused to accept fault either.
But do tell if you think cutting of water from a person in active psychosis (because you refused to give them their prescribed medications as "unnecessary"), who's actively bleeding, after he's not slept for three days, is, idk... appropriate and in accordance with Finnish values? (Because it's not in accordance with the universal declaration of basic human rights)
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Finland is named the happiest country in the world for the eighth year in a row, according to the World Happiness Report 2025 published Thursday.
Other Nordic countries are also once again at the top of the happiness rankings in the annual report published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford. Besides Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Sweden remain the top four and in the same order.
Country rankings were based on answers people give when asked to rate their own lives. The study was done in partnership with the analytics firm Gallup and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
When it comes to decreasing happiness — or growing unhappiness —the United States has dropped to its lowest-ever position at 24, having previously peaked at 11th place in 2012. The report states that the number of people dining alone in the United States has increased 53% over the past two decades.
How is Israel even in the top ten? They are truly detached from reality.
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A long fucking story that no Finns believe.
Despite me still having the scars and photos to prove it.
Cops deleted the video material.
Tried charging them and reaching out to oikeuasiamies the ombudsman, and they refused to accept fault either.
But do tell if you think cutting of water from a person in active psychosis (because you refused to give them their prescribed medications as "unnecessary"), who's actively bleeding, after he's not slept for three days, is, idk... appropriate and in accordance with Finnish values? (Because it's not in accordance with the universal declaration of basic human rights)
Its pretty hard to belive it when every encounter i personally have with police has been good and fair and everyone i know to hate "pigs" hate them because they have broken the law themself. I think my experience is pretty common one and to me personally, one person ranting online is not enough to change my lifelong experience.
What pictures are you talking about? The one about the holding cell? That in its self does not mean anything.
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Finland is named the happiest country in the world for the eighth year in a row, according to the World Happiness Report 2025 published Thursday.
Other Nordic countries are also once again at the top of the happiness rankings in the annual report published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford. Besides Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Sweden remain the top four and in the same order.
Country rankings were based on answers people give when asked to rate their own lives. The study was done in partnership with the analytics firm Gallup and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
When it comes to decreasing happiness — or growing unhappiness —the United States has dropped to its lowest-ever position at 24, having previously peaked at 11th place in 2012. The report states that the number of people dining alone in the United States has increased 53% over the past two decades.
One of the problems with America is if you ask people on the street who's the happiest country in the world, a good chunk will answer America and not believe this result. I've always said the problem with being #1 (or thinking you are) is that you don't work very hard to improve.
One metric America leads the world in: self-delusion regarding its own performance in every area. How many people say America leads in math, science, health? Don't get me wrong, in a lot of categories the US is top 20, but very few where we actually are #1. Until this attitude is fixed, we're not going to see real improvement. RAH RAH RAH USA #1 is nice to whip up a crowd at a rally, but it's not good for positive ongoing change.
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One of the problems with America is if you ask people on the street who's the happiest country in the world, a good chunk will answer America and not believe this result. I've always said the problem with being #1 (or thinking you are) is that you don't work very hard to improve.
One metric America leads the world in: self-delusion regarding its own performance in every area. How many people say America leads in math, science, health? Don't get me wrong, in a lot of categories the US is top 20, but very few where we actually are #1. Until this attitude is fixed, we're not going to see real improvement. RAH RAH RAH USA #1 is nice to whip up a crowd at a rally, but it's not good for positive ongoing change.
That Pledge of Allegiance shit really worked.
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How is Israel even in the top ten? They are truly detached from reality.
If you didn't put Israel in top ten, it would be considered anti Semitic
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Its pretty hard to belive it when every encounter i personally have with police has been good and fair and everyone i know to hate "pigs" hate them because they have broken the law themself. I think my experience is pretty common one and to me personally, one person ranting online is not enough to change my lifelong experience.
What pictures are you talking about? The one about the holding cell? That in its self does not mean anything.
What pictures are you talking about? The one about the holding cell? That in its self does not mean anything.
This is what I mean.
How in the hell do you defend keeping someone locked up when they don't eat or don't sleep and you keep their PRESCRIBED antipsychotics from them.
I have doctors statements showing my bleeding and infected arma from after that treatment. I've a psychotherapist's diagnosis of PTSD of it
I wouldn't have believed it before it happened, but it did.
And you have literally zero empathy and willfully ignore the evidence. Just claim "no didn't happen that's probably faked image".
Have you ever tries eating a part of your own body? I chewed the end of pinky off, a I could use it as a paintbrush.
300 words. WORDS. ON MY OWN BLOOD.
Just pleased explain to me how it makes sense in your little head that putting me in an isolation cell "for my protection", while under constant supervision, someone would let this happen?
They also deleted the footage. Want to hear the phone call with my lawyer when he talks about it?
You still wouldn't believe it.
This is exactly what I mean. Deluded people excusing authoritarianism, because "oh but the police were always polite to me".
Youre deluded and doing hardcore avoidance, which is endemic to Finland or at least Finns and that's been my point all the time.
Want to put a reminder for two years because ECHR takes years to handle human rights violation cases.
I starred filming the cops the instant they forced my door open and came into my apartment without a permission. (Search warrants aren't like in the US, but you do need to be a senior constable to be able to decide it, neither of them were.)
The 6s bit I managed to film I used, and Korkein oikeus agreed with me.
https://www.hs.fi/suomi/art-2000009654524.html
You're just deluded. Willfully ignorant. Guess what things that leads in a society? "Oh everything is well, these well documented abuses definitely don't happen because officers on the street know how to smile at me at traffic stops.
I never had a single issue with cops either. Until they abused me.
You trust you have rights because they're in the law. Unfortunately doesn't matter at all. The cops investigating themselves? Guess if they found fault about themselves?
In the US at least there's people who demand their rights, which is why they can't have entirely cases mistrialed, because there's actually people in the US who believe and understand people have rights.
You don't even have the capacity for empathy, much less an understanding of human rights or standing up for justice.
Coward.
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If you didn't put Israel in top ten, it would be considered anti Semitic
The methodology is flawed.
They do ask people how happy they are, but most of the score is from other factors, like GDP, income equality, personal freedoms, etc. -
The methodology is flawed.
They do ask people how happy they are, but most of the score is from other factors, like GDP, income equality, personal freedoms, etc.It's definetly a flawed methodology. It implies the certain qualities have the same importance to cultures worldwide. I'm born in Scotland but ethnically Punjabi. I go pakistan and i see extreme poverty and struggle, yet I speak and live with people of different classes and it's often those who are poor but with community who are happiest (something similar applies to many nations I've been) not to say wealth wouldn't make them happier or live longer, but our current capitalist system is a disease that very very few nations were able to effectively control so that the society benefits (gulf Arabs, Singapore and Nordics) but generally wealth doesn't make a nation happier unless it's somewhat fairly distributed
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I spent a night in the ER, had some tests done, puked on the CT scan machine, got some meds, and the most expensive part of that trip was the taxi.
sounds like an average Finnish weekend.
