The World Happiness Report 2025 has just been released – Finland has come out as the happiest country in the world again!
But what about you, are you happy?
If you lost your wallet, do you think someone would return it?
Actual rates of wallets being returned are around twice as high as people expect.
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The World Happiness Report 2025 has found that people who feel others had their back and would return a lost wallet are far happier with their lives.
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Do you volunteer to help people in your community?
Donating, volunteering and helping strangers are particularly common in millennials and Gen Z.
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Research shows that people who volunteer for social reasons – for example, because it's important to their loved ones – have:
Higher self-esteem
Better well-being
Increased self-efficacy
Greater connectedness
Lower risk of mortality among older adults
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How many people do you usually sit down to eat with?
A study of roughly 9,000 older adults in China found that sharing meals with others was associated with lower rates of depression.
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The World Happiness Report 2025 has found that those who share meals with others report significantly higher levels of life satisfaction.
The World Happiness Report (WHR) is a partnership of Gallup, the Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and the WHR's Editorial Board. The report is published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford and produced under the editorial control of the WHR Editorial Board.
Powered by data from the Gallup World Poll, the World Happiness Report is the world's foremost publication on global happiness: an annual publication which provides valuable, interdisciplinary insights into the well-being and happiness of people across the globe.
In addition to the rankings of the world's happiest countries, the report includes curated submissions from experts at the forefront of well-being science.
The editorial board consists of John F Helliwell (University of British Columbia), Richard Layard (London School of Economics and Political Science), Jeffrey D Sachs (Columbia University), Jan-Emmanuel De Neve (University of Oxford), Lara B Aknin (Simon Fraser University), and Shun Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University).
