World Happiness Report
This page explains the World Happiness Report. It does not list country scores. Those scores are not in our sourced snapshot yet.
What the report measures
The World Happiness Report, published by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, ranks countries from answers to the Cantril ladder: people rate their lives from 0 (worst possible) to 10 (best possible). Statistical analysis then relates those answers to six variables:
- GDP per capita
- Social support
- Healthy life expectancy
- Freedom to make life choices
- Generosity
- Perceptions of corruption
Why rankings are paused
Happiness scores originate in the Gallup World Poll. We only publish indicators with a clear, reusable license and a machine-readable series. Until that is confirmed for the World Happiness Report, this URL stays as methodology — not a table of unsourced numbers.