I WILL MAKE YOU HAPPY
How happiness is studied.
An evaluation of your life
The World Happiness Report ranks countries using people’s own evaluations of their lives on a scale from 0 to 10. The 2026 rankings use average responses from 2023–2025.
World Happiness Report 2026 ↗Satisfaction, feelings and meaning
The OECD distinguishes life evaluation, experienced feelings and a sense of meaning. Different questions describe different aspects of wellbeing. One number cannot capture them all.
OECD (2025) ↗Following changes in wellbeing
The WHO-5 questionnaire asks about wellbeing over the previous two weeks.
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