Every year, on the International Day of Happiness, the United Nations publishes the World Happiness Report. This is a ranking list of 143 countries that looks at how happy the people of those countries are. Spain once again fell down the list in terms of happy population in 2024, scoring worse than the Netherlands and Belgium, while Finland has consistently remained at the top.
According to xi World Happiness Report According to the United Nations, Spain is ranked 36th out of 143 happiest countries, four places lower than in 2023 when Spain was still 32nd (and 29th in 2021). Finland managed to dethrone Norway as the happiest country in 2018, while the Netherlands takes sixth place in 2024, and Belgium takes 16th place, moving up one place.
Take into account Six factors To determine whether a country's population is happy: GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy at birth, freedom to make life choices, generosity, and perceptions of corruption.
A thousand residents in each country were surveyed, and for the sixth time in a row, Finland ranked first as the happiest country in the world! According to the official report, Spain ranked thirty-sixth, the Netherlands sixth, and Belgium sixteenth.
