Finland is again ranked the happiest country in the world. The US falls to its lowest-ever position
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Actually, the Finns already spend 2.4% of their GDP on defense, making them one of the highest defense spenders in Europe (relative to GDP)
They are one of the highest spenders already and are planning on spending more. Dumping even more public money on war will make everyone happier wait and see..
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I dunno, man. Israel being 8th is pretty fucked up.
Israel has diced head first into being Nazis and they're almost all fucking about it. They're just happy they get to
exterminate the jewsget to be the ones doing the extermination this time.The 'problem' the US has is only 1/3 of us have embraced being nazis, while another 1/3 doesn't give a shit.
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Wait till their government dump all public money on "defense"
It's the prospect of kicking Russian butt that keeps them so happy.
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I don't get how Finland managed to push Denmark to 2nd place??
We have way more bacon and beer than they do.
I think they are gaming the system. Look I even had enough beer and bacon to share it with EVERYBODY on the internet!!Maybe, but we have 
vodka and russian drinking habbits. All the sad people are dead. -
I don't get how Finland managed to push Denmark to 2nd place??
We have way more bacon and beer than they do.
I think they are gaming the system. Look I even had enough beer and bacon to share it with EVERYBODY on the internet!!My recollection of danish food was, you can have meat you like as long as it came from a pig. Wouldn't surprise me if the beer was similar.
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Maybe, but we have vodka and russian drinking habbits. All the sad people are dead.
Oh so that's the secret, I thought there was something fishy about this, very clever and well played.
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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.
Findland keeping its third world immigration at bay. Coincidence? Zealots will continue saying immigration is our greatest strength.
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Here's an old Finnish joke:
Why are people in Finland the happiest people on Earth?
Because all the sad people have killed themselves.It sucks that we still have that reputation abroad. We're doing a lot better in that front. Also at least 2019 and 2016 our suicide rate was actually lower than the US, where a lot of these jokes come from (I was pretty surprised)
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As a Finn, I'd like to remind you this is 50% bullshit.
They go around asking people how they are and in Finnish culture, you're not allowed to complain, and our society sees to it that we give even substance abusers and drunks rent money, so people answer "can't complain".
Finnish people are emotionally stunted and don't even understand the concept of happiness.
in Finnish culture, you’re not allowed to complain
What a load of shit, people complain openly all the time. Foreigners are even shocked when sometimes we're too frank in answering "how are you doing
and our society sees to it that we give even substance abusers and drunks rent money, so people answer “can’t complain”.
You think the ranking is bs because we realize that things are pretty good here?
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Findland keeping its third world immigration at bay. Coincidence? Zealots will continue saying immigration is our greatest strength.
weird way to refer to Russian aggression
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According to the other comments, they ask "How are you?" ans the response is a barked out "eVeRyThInG Is gReAt" and this gets written down as a 5/5 on the happiness scale.
No, it's because things are all things considered pretty good here, so people say "can't complain". Things overall are pretty good. Some understand happiness as being giddy about life but what this ranking more about is how content you're with your life and when things are overall alright, it's easy to be content.
The happiness thing is misleading since what it means varies a lot culture to culture.
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I'm convinced Finns have just found a way to troll this somehow. Not that Finland isn't great and all, but it just makes more sense.
It's easy to be content with life when things are overall pretty good. And Finns typically are happy with fairly little, so we rank high.
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Findland keeping its third world immigration at bay. Coincidence? Zealots will continue saying immigration is our greatest strength.
Not saying that couldn't affect the ranking but Sweden is up there too.
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They are one of the highest spenders already and are planning on spending more. Dumping even more public money on war will make everyone happier wait and see..
We are "dumping" it to our defence from what I've understood. If the war we would "dump" it to was the one where Ukraine defends itself against Russian attack, then yeah that seems like a good cause.
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weird way to refer to Russian aggression
No sugar pie, Im refereing to muslims, africans and indians.
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As a Finn, I'd like to remind you this is 50% bullshit.
They go around asking people how they are and in Finnish culture, you're not allowed to complain, and our society sees to it that we give even substance abusers and drunks rent money, so people answer "can't complain".
Finnish people are emotionally stunted and don't even understand the concept of happiness.
I was actually wondering about that. Finland keeps getting this high ranking, so at what point do the Finnish people feel obligated to maintain that reputation when they answer these surveys? For at least a few people, I'd imagine it becomes a small point of pride.
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I dunno, man. Israel being 8th is pretty fucked up.
If you had a territory where you could sort mostly the wealthy people into one "country" and mostly the poor people into another "country", you could make one really happy and one really sad country.
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I get what you mean, support in laws and numbers is not real solidarity, and therefore not effective nor complete support.
But from an outsider perspective (and i still leave in one of the most "supporting" country i'd say), it's already a big step from our current position to not get evicted or starve.
It's a good thing to know that solving symptoms with money does not solve problems though, but i feel like it remains hard to explain to people that it's not already a big step forward.
Financially? Sure.
"Getting help when you're feeling like killing yourself"? Nah.
Like literally I couldn't get help. The ER doc dismissed me, a crisis center dismissed me, my family dismissed me. Even after the documented seizures and me not getting any fucking help.
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in Finnish culture, you’re not allowed to complain
What a load of shit, people complain openly all the time. Foreigners are even shocked when sometimes we're too frank in answering "how are you doing
and our society sees to it that we give even substance abusers and drunks rent money, so people answer “can’t complain”.
You think the ranking is bs because we realize that things are pretty good here?
It's literally measuring contentedness, not happiness.
Saying "Finland is the happiest country in the world" is akin to those studies which say "one glass of wine gives you the benefits of a half hour at the gym" or smth. Completely misunderstood.
It's very different being un-discontent vs being "happy"
