Context

Happiness and well-being are essential indicators of societal progress, often influenced by economic conditions such as GDP and inflation. This dataset combines data from the World Happiness Index (WHI) and inflation metrics to explore the relationship between economic stability and happiness levels across 148 countries from 2015 to 2023. By analyzing key economic indicators alongside social well-being factors, this dataset provides insights into global prosperity trends.

Content

This dataset is provided in CSV format and includes 16 columns, covering both happiness-related features and economic indicators such as GDP per capita, inflation rates, and corruption perception. The main columns include:

Happiness Score & Rank (World Happiness Index ranking per country) Economic Indicators (GDP per capita, inflation metrics) Social Factors (Freedom, Social Support, Generosity) Geographical Information (Country & Continent)

Acknowledgements

The dataset is created using publicly available data from World Happiness Report, Gallup World Poll, and the World Bank. It has been structured for research, machine learning, and policy analysis purposes.

Inspiration

How do economic factors like inflation, GDP, and corruption affect happiness? Can we predict a country's happiness score based on economic conditions? This dataset allows you to analyze these relationships and build models to predict well-being trends worldwide.

In 2025, Luxembourg was the country with the highest gross domestic product per capita in the world. Of the 20 listed countries, 13 are in Europe and five are in Asia, alongside the U.S. and Australia. There are no African or Latin American countries among the top 20. Correlation with high living standards While GDP is a useful indicator for measuring the size or strength of an economy, GDP per capita is much more reflective of living standards. For example, when compared to life expectancy or indices such as the Human Development Index or the World Happiness Report, there is a strong overlap - 14 of the 20 countries on this list are also ranked among the 20 happiest countries in 2024, and all 20 have "very high" HDIs. Misleading metrics? GDP per capita figures, however, can be misleading, and to paint a fuller picture of a country's living standards then one must look at multiple metrics. GDP per capita figures can be skewed by inequalities in wealth distribution, and in countries such as those in the Middle East, a relatively large share of the population lives in poverty while a smaller number live affluent lifestyles.

According to the UN's World Happiness Report, China's happiness index ranged at 5.97 points in 2024. China ranked 60th out of 143 countries. Finland, Denmark, and other European countries held the top spots in the ranking, while Afghanistan stayed at the bottom of the list. What is the happiness index? The happiness index is based on a Cantril ladder survey which is carried out annually worldwide by the polling company Gallup. Nationally representative samples of respondents are asked to value the quality of their lives at the survey moment on a 0 to 10 scale, with the worst possible life as zero and the best possible life as ten. The first World Happiness Report was published in 2012, and since then, governments are increasingly using its insights to orient public policies towards happiness. Surge in happiness in China In 2024, the happiness index in China was the highest since the beginning of the survey series. The growth in the sense of happiness has been consistent over the years except for a short period of 2018-2019. As happiness is hard to quantify, the reasons behind the dip in the curve during that time can only be hypothesized. The happiness index of 5.19 points in 2019, which was in the lower 50 percentile, did not seem to correlate with any of the usual suspects: the GDP growth, pollution levels, corruption or the perception of it, or even income inequality. The possible factors that could have affected people’s happiness were unemployment, insufficient social safety net, and several political issues. However, the country saw a surge in the sense of happiness from 2021 onwards. Successful containment of the COVID-19 pandemic that gave a greater feeling of security, fast economic recovery, and increase in the national pride could have been a few of the reasons behind the recent rising optimism in China.

This dataset was created in order to document self-reported life evaluations among small-scale societies that exist on the fringes of mainstream industrialized socieities. The data were produced as part of the LICCI project, through fieldwork carried out by LICCI partners. The data include individual responses to a life satisfaction question, and household asset values. Data from Gallup World Poll and the World Values Survey are also included, as used for comparison. TABULAR DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION --------------------------------- 1. File name: LICCI_individual.csv Number of rows and columns: 2814,7 Variable list: Variable names: User, Site, village Description: identification of investigator and location Variable name: Well.being.general Description: numerical score for life satisfaction question Variable names: HH_Assets_US, HH_Assets_USD_capita Description: estimated value of representative assets in the household of respondent, total and per capita (accounting for number of household inhabitants) 2. File name: LICCI_bySite.csv Number of rows and columns: 19,8 Variable list: Variable names: Site, N Description: site name and number of respondents at the site Variable names: SWB_mean, SWB_SD Description: mean and standard deviation of life satisfaction score Variable names: HHAssets_USD_mean, HHAssets_USD_sd Description: Site mean and standard deviation of household asset value Variable names: PerCapAssets_USD_mean, PerCapAssets_USD_sd Description: Site mean and standard deviation of per capita asset value 3. File name: gallup_WVS_GDP_pk.csv Number of rows and columns: 146,8 Variable list: Variable name: Happiness Score, Whisker-high, Whisker-low Description: from Gallup World Poll as documented in World Happiness Report 2022. Variable name: GDP-PPP2017 Description: Gross Domestic Product per capita for year 2020 at PPP (constant 2017 international $). Accessed May 2022. Variable name: pk Description: Produced capital per capita for year 2018 (in 2018 US$) for available countries, as estimated by the World Bank (accessed February 2022). Variable names: WVS7_mean, WVS7_std Description: Results of Question 49 in the World Values Survey, Wave 7.

Happiness is a state of contentment, joy, and fulfillment, arising from relationships, accomplishments, and inner peace, leading to well-being and positivity. The greatest happiness principle posits that morality is determined by pleasure, aiming for a society where individuals are content and free from suffering. While happiness factors vary, some are universally recognized. The World Happiness Report (WHR), published annually, includes data on ‘GDP per capita’, ‘social support’, ‘life expectancy’, ‘freedom to make life choices’, ‘generosity’, and ‘perceptions of corruption’. This paper predicts happiness scores using Machine Learning (ML), Deep Learning (DL), and ensemble ML and DL algorithms and examines the impact of individual variables on the happiness index. We also show the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the happiness features. We design two ensemble ML and DL models using blending and stacking ensemble techniques, namely, Blending RGMLL, which combines Ridge Regression (RR), Gradient Boosting (GB), Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), and Linear Regression (LR), and Stacking LRGR, which combines LR, Random Forest (RF), GB, and RR. Among the trained models, Blending RGMLL demonstrates the highest predictive accuracy with R2 of 85%, MSE of 0.15, and RMSE of 0.38. We employ Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) techniques to uncover changes in happiness indices, variable importance, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on happiness. The study utilizes an open dataset from the WHR, covering 156 countries from 2018 to 2023. Our findings indicate that ‘GDP per capita’ is the most critical indicator of happiness score (HS), while ‘social support’ and ‘healthy life expectancy’ are also important features before and after the pandemic. However, during the pandemic, ‘social support’ emerged as the most important indicator, followed by ‘healthy life expectancy’ and ‘GDP per capita’, because social support is the prime necessity in the pandemic situation. The outcome of this research helps people understand the impact of these features on increasing the HS and provides guidelines on how happiness can be maintain during unwanted situations. Future research will explore advanced methods and include other related features with real-time monitoring for more comprehensive insights.

World Happiness Index and Inflation Dataset 🌍📊

This dataset combines World Happiness Index (WHI) scores with inflation metrics across different countries from 2015 to 2023.It provides insights into how economic conditions such as GDP per capita, inflation, and corruption perception impact happiness levels globally.

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Happiness and well-being are essential indicators of societal progress, often influenced by economic conditions such as GDP and inflation.This… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/AgraResearchLab/WorldHappinessIndex_InflationDataset.

Context

The World Happiness Report may be a point of interest survey of the state of worldwide bliss. The primary report was distributed in 2012, the second in 2013, the third in 2015, and the fourth within the 2016 Upgrade. The World Joy 2017, which positions 155 nations by their bliss levels, was discharged at the Joined together Countries at an occasion celebrating Universal Day of Joy on Walk 20th. The report proceeds to pick up worldwide acknowledgment as governments, organizations and respectful society progressively utilize joy pointers to educate their policy-making choices. Driving specialists over areas – financial matters, brain research, overview investigation, national insights, wellbeing, open approach and more – depict how estimations of well-being can be used effectively to evaluate the advance of countries. The reports survey the state of bliss within the world nowadays and appear how the modern science of bliss clarifies individual and national varieties in bliss.

Content

The joy scores and rankings utilize information from the Gallup World Survey. The scores are based on answers to the most life evaluation address inquired within the survey. This address, known as the Cantril step, asks respondents to think of a step with the most excellent conceivable life for them being a 10 and the most exceedingly bad conceivable life being a and to rate their claim current lives on that scale. The scores are from broadly agent tests for the a long time 2013-2016 and utilize the Gallup weights to create the gauges agent. The columns taking after the bliss score assess the degree to which each of six variables – financial generation, social back, life anticipation, flexibility, nonattendance of debasement, and liberality – contribute to making life assessments higher in each nation than they are in Dystopia, a theoretical nation that has values rise to to the world’s least national midpoints for each of the six variables. They have no affect on the full score detailed for each nation, but they do exp

This file contains the Happiness Score for 153 countries along with the factors used to explain the score.

The Happiness Score is a national average of the responses to the main life evaluation question asked in the Gallup World Poll (GWP), which uses the Cantril Ladder.

The Happiness Score is explained by the following factors:

GDP per capita Healthy Life Expectancy Social support Freedom to make life choices Generosity Corruption Perception Residual error The data is described in much more detail here: link

Acknowledgements

I did not create this data, only sourced it. The credit goes to the original Authors:

Editors: John Helliwell, Richard Layard, Jeffrey D. Sachs, and Jan Emmanuel De Neve, Co-Editors; Lara Aknin, Haifang Huang and Shun Wang, Associate Editors; and Sharon Paculor, Production Editor

Citation: Helliwell, John F., Richard Layard, Jeffrey Sachs, and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, eds. 2020. World Happiness Report 2020. New York: Sustainable Development Solutions Network

Finland was ranked the happiest country in the world, according to the World Happiness Report from 2025. The Nordic country scored 7.74 on a scale from 0 to 10. Two other Nordic countries, Denmark and Iceland, followed in second and third place, respectively. The World Happiness Report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness that ranks countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be. Criticism The index has received criticism from different perspectives. Some argue that it is impossible to measure general happiness in a country. Others argue that the index places too much emphasis on material well-being as well as freedom from oppression. As a result, the Happy Planet Index was introduced, which takes life expectancy, experienced well-being, inequality of outcomes, and ecological footprint into account. Here, Costa Rica was ranked as the happiest country in the world. Afghanistan is the least happy country Nevertheless, most people agree that high levels of poverty, lack of access to food and water, as well as a prevalence of conflict are factors hindering public happiness. Hence, it comes as no surprise that Afghanistan was ranked as the least happy country in the world in 2024. The South Asian country is ridden by poverty and undernourishment, and topped the Global Terrorism Index in 2024.

Past studies have shown that personal subjective happiness is associated with various macro- and micro-level background factors, including environmental conditions, such as weather and the economic situation, and personal health behaviors, such as smoking and exercise. We contribute to this literature of happiness studies by using a geospatial approach to examine both macro and micro links to personal happiness. Our geospatial approach incorporates two major global datasets: representative national survey data from the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) and corresponding world weather data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). After processing and filtering 55,081 records of ISSP 2011 survey data from 32 countries, we extracted 5,420 records from China and 25,441 records from 28 other countries. Sensitivity analyses of different intervals for average weather variables showed that macro-level conditions, including temperature, wind speed, elevation, and GDP, are positively correlated with happiness. To distinguish the effects of weather conditions on happiness in different seasons, we also adopted climate zone and seasonal variables. The micro-level analysis indicated that better health status and eating more vegetables or fruits are highly associated with happiness. Never engaging in physical activity appears to make people less happy. The findings suggest that weather conditions, economic situations, and personal health behaviors are all correlated with levels of happiness.

Happiness is a state of contentment, joy, and fulfillment, arising from relationships, accomplishments, and inner peace, leading to well-being and positivity. The greatest happiness principle posits that morality is determined by pleasure, aiming for a society where individuals are content and free from suffering. While happiness factors vary, some are universally recognized. The World Happiness Report (WHR), published annually, includes data on ‘GDP per capita’, ‘social support’, ‘life expectancy’, ‘freedom to make life choices’, ‘generosity’, and ‘perceptions of corruption’. This paper predicts happiness scores using Machine Learning (ML), Deep Learning (DL), and ensemble ML and DL algorithms and examines the impact of individual variables on the happiness index. We also show the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the happiness features. We design two ensemble ML and DL models using blending and stacking ensemble techniques, namely, Blending RGMLL, which combines Ridge Regression (RR), Gradient Boosting (GB), Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), and Linear Regression (LR), and Stacking LRGR, which combines LR, Random Forest (RF), GB, and RR. Among the trained models, Blending RGMLL demonstrates the highest predictive accuracy with R2 of 85%, MSE of 0.15, and RMSE of 0.38. We employ Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) techniques to uncover changes in happiness indices, variable importance, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on happiness. The study utilizes an open dataset from the WHR, covering 156 countries from 2018 to 2023. Our findings indicate that ‘GDP per capita’ is the most critical indicator of happiness score (HS), while ‘social support’ and ‘healthy life expectancy’ are also important features before and after the pandemic. However, during the pandemic, ‘social support’ emerged as the most important indicator, followed by ‘healthy life expectancy’ and ‘GDP per capita’, because social support is the prime necessity in the pandemic situation. The outcome of this research helps people understand the impact of these features on increasing the HS and provides guidelines on how happiness can be maintain during unwanted situations. Future research will explore advanced methods and include other related features with real-time monitoring for more comprehensive insights.

Dataset from the World Happiness Report (2020–2024) covering social and economic indicators of 156 countries and regions.

This dashboard is part of SDGs Today. Please see sdgstoday.org.The World Happiness Report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness that ranks 150+ countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be.Much of the growing international interest in happiness exists, thanks to Bhutan. They sponsored Resolution 65/309, “Happiness: Towards a holistic approach to development,” adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 19 July 2011, inviting national governments to “give more importance to happiness and well-being in determining how to achieve and measure social and economic development.” The gross domestic product (GDP) indicator was not designed to and did not adequately reflect the happiness and well-being of people.Life evaluations from the Gallup World Poll provide the basis for the annual happiness rankings. They are based on answers to the main life evaluation question, the Cantril ladder. The rankings are from nationally representative samples over three years.

This data set accompanies the publication "Towards a comprehensive framework of the relationships between resource footprints, quality of life and economic development" by Stefan Cibulka and Stefan Giljum from the Institute for Ecological Economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU).

The file provides data on resource footprints (carbon footprint, material footprint), Human Development Index, Happiness Index as well as GDP for countries world-wide in the time span from 1990 to 2015. In addition, it provides all specifications of the regression analyses undertaken in the course of this study and the detailed regression results.

Analysis of ‘World Happiness Report 2015-2021’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/mathurinache/world-happiness-report-20152021 on 28 January 2022.

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Context The World Happiness Report may be a point of interest survey of the state of worldwide bliss. The primary report was distributed in 2012, the second in 2013, the third in 2015, and the fourth within the 2016 Upgrade. The World Joy 2017, which positions 155 nations by their bliss levels, was discharged at the Joined together Countries at an occasion celebrating Universal Day of Joy on Walk 20th. The report proceeds to pick up worldwide acknowledgment as governments, organizations and respectful society progressively utilize joy pointers to educate their policy-making choices. Driving specialists over areas – financial matters, brain research, overview investigation, national insights, wellbeing, open approach and more – depict how estimations of well-being can be used effectively to evaluate the advance of countries. The reports survey the state of bliss within the world nowadays and appear how the modern science of bliss clarifies individual and national varieties in bliss.

Content The joy scores and rankings utilize information from the Gallup World Survey. The scores are based on answers to the most life evaluation address inquired within the survey. This address, known as the Cantril step, asks respondents to think of a step with the most excellent conceivable life for them being a 10 and the most exceedingly bad conceivable life being a and to rate their claim current lives on that scale. The scores are from broadly agent tests for the a long time 2013-2016 and utilize the Gallup weights to create the gauges agent. The columns taking after the bliss score assess the degree to which each of six variables – financial generation, social back, life anticipation, flexibility, nonattendance of debasement, and liberality – contribute to making life assessments higher in each nation than they are in Dystopia, a theoretical nation that has values rise to to the world’s least national midpoints for each of the six variables. They have no affect on the full score detailed for each nation, but they do exp

This file contains the Happiness Score for 153 countries along with the factors used to explain the score.

The Happiness Score is a national average of the responses to the main life evaluation question asked in the Gallup World Poll (GWP), which uses the Cantril Ladder.

The Happiness Score is explained by the following factors:

GDP per capita Healthy Life Expectancy Social support Freedom to make life choices Generosity Corruption Perception Residual error The data is described in much more detail here: link

Acknowledgements I did not create this data, only sourced it. The credit goes to the original Authors:

Editors: John Helliwell, Richard Layard, Jeffrey D. Sachs, and Jan Emmanuel De Neve, Co-Editors; Lara Aknin, Haifang Huang and Shun Wang, Associate Editors; and Sharon Paculor, Production Editor

Citation: Helliwell, John F., Richard Layard, Jeffrey Sachs, and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, eds. 2020. World Happiness Report 2020. New York: Sustainable Development Solutions Network

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Analysis of ‘World Happiness Report 2021’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/mathurinache/world-happiness-report-2021 on 24 September 2021.

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Context

The World Happiness Report may be a point of interest survey of the state of worldwide bliss. The primary report was distributed in 2012, the second in 2013, the third in 2015, and the fourth within the 2016 Upgrade. The World Joy 2017, which positions 155 nations by their bliss levels, was discharged at the Joined together Countries at an occasion celebrating Universal Day of Joy on Walk 20th. The report proceeds to pick up worldwide acknowledgment as governments, organizations and respectful society progressively utilize joy pointers to educate their policy-making choices. Driving specialists over areas – financial matters, brain research, overview investigation, national insights, wellbeing, open approach and more – depict how estimations of well-being can be used effectively to evaluate the advance of countries. The reports survey the state of bliss within the world nowadays and appear how the modern science of bliss clarifies individual and national varieties in bliss.

Content

The joy scores and rankings utilize information from the Gallup World Survey. The scores are based on answers to the most life evaluation address inquired within the survey. This address, known as the Cantril step, asks respondents to think of a step with the most excellent conceivable life for them being a 10 and the most exceedingly bad conceivable life being a and to rate their claim current lives on that scale. The scores are from broadly agent tests for the a long time 2013-2016 and utilize the Gallup weights to create the gauges agent. The columns taking after the bliss score assess the degree to which each of six variables – financial generation, social back, life anticipation, flexibility, nonattendance of debasement, and liberality – contribute to making life assessments higher in each nation than they are in Dystopia, a theoretical nation that has values rise to to the world’s least national midpoints for each of the six variables. They have no affect on the full score detailed for each nation, but they do exp

This file contains the Happiness Score for 153 countries along with the factors used to explain the score.

The Happiness Score is a national average of the responses to the main life evaluation question asked in the Gallup World Poll (GWP), which uses the Cantril Ladder.

The Happiness Score is explained by the following factors:

GDP per capita Healthy Life Expectancy Social support Freedom to make life choices Generosity Corruption Perception Residual error The data is described in much more detail here: link

Acknowledgements

I did not create this data, only sourced it. The credit goes to the original Authors:

Editors: John Helliwell, Richard Layard, Jeffrey D. Sachs, and Jan Emmanuel De Neve, Co-Editors; Lara Aknin, Haifang Huang and Shun Wang, Associate Editors; and Sharon Paculor, Production Editor

Citation: Helliwell, John F., Richard Layard, Jeffrey Sachs, and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, eds. 2020. World Happiness Report 2020. New York: Sustainable Development Solutions Network

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This study addresses the research objective of predicting global happiness and identifying its key drivers. We propose a novel predictive framework that integrates unsupervised and supervised machine learning techniques to uncover the complex patterns underlying happiness scores across nations. Initially, we apply K-Means clustering to group countries based on similarities in their happiness patterns. For the first time, these cluster assignments are subsequently incorporated as additional features into ensemble learning models—specifically, Random Forests and XGBoost—to enhance the prediction of happiness scores. This hierarchical analysis approach yields a significant improvement in predictive performance, with an approximate 12% increase in R² compared to models that do not include clustering information. Using data from the World Happiness Report, our analysis reveals that global happiness can be categorized into three distinct groups (high, medium, and low). Among the various determinants examined, social support and GDP emerge as the most influential factors contributing to the happiness index. These findings not only advance the methodological framework for predicting happiness but also provide robust evidence for policymakers seeking to implement targeted interventions aimed at improving public well-being and promoting social progress.

In 2023, Switzerland led the ranking of countries with the highest average wealth per adult, with approximately ******* U.S. dollars per person. Luxembourg was ranked second with an average wealth of around ******* U.S. dollars per adult, followed by Hong Kong SAR. However, the figures do not show the actual distribution of wealth. The Gini index shows wealth disparities in countries worldwide. Does wealth guarantee a longer life? As the old adage goes, “money can’t buy you happiness”, yet wealth and income are continuously correlated to the quality of life of individuals in different countries around the world. While greater levels of wealth may not guarantee a higher quality of life, it certainly increases an individual’s chances of having a longer one. Although they do not show the whole picture, life expectancy at birth is higher in the wealthier world regions. Does money bring happiness? A number of the world’s happiest nations also feature in the list of those countries for which average income was highest. Finland, however, which was the happiest country worldwide in 2022, is missing from the list of the top twenty countries with the highest wealth per adult. As such, the explanation for this may be the fact that the larger proportion of the population has access to a high income relative to global levels. Measures of quality of life Criticism of the use of income or wealth as a proxy for quality of life led to the creation of the United Nations’ Human Development Index. Although income is included within the index, it also has other factors taken into account, such as health and education. As such, the countries with the highest human development index can be correlated to those with the highest income levels. That said, none of the above measures seek to assess the physical and mental environmental impact of a high quality of life sourced through high incomes. The happy planet index demonstrates that the inclusion of experienced well-being and ecological footprint in place of income and other proxies for quality of life results in many of the world’s materially poorer nations being included in the happiest.

Performance Evaluation of Machine Learning Prediction Models.

Context The World Happiness Report may be a point of interest survey of the state of worldwide bliss. The primary report was distributed in 2012, the second in 2013, the third in 2015, and the fourth within the 2016 Upgrade. The World Joy 2017, which positions 155 nations by their bliss levels, was discharged at the Joined together Countries at an occasion celebrating Universal Day of Joy on Walk 20th. The report proceeds to pick up worldwide acknowledgment as governments, organizations and respectful society progressively utilize joy pointers to educate their policy-making choices. Driving specialists over areas – financial matters, brain research, overview investigation, national insights, wellbeing, open approach and more – depict how estimations of well-being can be used effectively to evaluate the advance of countries. The reports survey the state of bliss within the world nowadays and appear how the modern science of bliss clarifies individual and national varieties in bliss.

Content The joy scores and rankings utilize information from the Gallup World Survey. The scores are based on answers to the most life evaluation address inquired within the survey. This address, known as the Cantril step, asks respondents to think of a step with the most excellent conceivable life for them being a 10 and the most exceedingly bad conceivable life being a and to rate their claim current lives on that scale. The scores are from broadly agent tests for the a long time 2013-2016 and utilize the Gallup weights to create the gauges agent. The columns taking after the bliss score assess the degree to which each of six variables – financial generation, social back, life anticipation, flexibility, nonattendance of debasement, and liberality – contribute to making life assessments higher in each nation than they are in Dystopia, a theoretical nation that has values rise to to the world’s least national midpoints for each of the six variables. They have no affect on the full score detailed for each nation, but they do exp

This file contains the Happiness Score for 153 countries along with the factors used to explain the score.

The Happiness Score is a national average of the responses to the main life evaluation question asked in the Gallup World Poll (GWP), which uses the Cantril Ladder.

The Happiness Score is explained by the following factors:

GDP per capita Healthy Life Expectancy Social support Freedom to make life choices Generosity Corruption Perception Residual error The data is described in much more detail here: link

Acknowledgements I did not create this data, only sourced it. The credit goes to the original Authors:

Editors: John Helliwell, Richard Layard, Jeffrey D. Sachs, and Jan Emmanuel De Neve, Co-Editors; Lara Aknin, Haifang Huang and Shun Wang, Associate Editors; and Sharon Paculor, Production Editor

Citation: Helliwell, John F., Richard Layard, Jeffrey Sachs, and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, eds. 2020. World Happiness Report 2020. New York: Sustainable Development Solutions Network

The coefficients of variables in 28 countries.