The 2024 World Happiness Report places Ghana in the 120th spot for happiness among countries worldwide.
Ghana got 4,289 points and failed to make it into the top 10 happiest countries in Africa.
All 54 countries in Africa failed to make it to the first fifty countries on the list of the World Happiness Report once again.
Libya deemed the most joyful country in Africa, achieving a happiness score of 5.866, is ranked 66th globally.
In 2023, Mauritius, ranked the happiest African country, took the 52nd position.
The World Happiness Report has once again ranked Finland as the happiest country for the third consecutive year. The United States went down to 23rd place from 15th place. Afghanistan, Lebanon and Lesotho were at the end of the list.
John Helliwell, a Canadian economist and founding editor of the World Happiness Report, said on Wednesday that younger people are not as happy as they were 10 or 12 years ago.
“The older people have not experienced many changes, and their life circumstances have stayed the same. This is causing them anxiety. ”
The report looks at information from 140 countries and uses six important factors to understand how people feel about their lives: how much money they have, how much support they get from others, how long they are expected to live, how much freedom they have, how generous they are, and how they feel about corruption.
The 2024 report was the first to rank people by age, showing big differences between young and old in some countries.
The top 20 list
- Finland;
- Denmark;
- Iceland;
- Sweden;
- Israel;
- Netherlands;
- Norway;
- Luxembourg
- Switzerland;
- Australia;
- New Zealand;
- Costa Rica;
- Kuwait;
- Austria;
- Canada;
- Belgium;
- Ireland;
- Czechia;
- Lithuania; and
- United Kingdom