On 20 March, International Happiness Day, an unofficial United Nations agency: the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network) 's latest World Happiness report), (World Happiness Report), 156 countries and territories based on life expectancy, Social security and other factors to make a big ranking. In the end, Finland was rated "the happiest country in the world" for the second year in a row, with a happiness index of 7.769. How can this young country, with a population of only 5.5 million, become the happiest country?
In this year's happiness index ranking, Nordic countries still stand out, occupying five of the top 10: screenshots
Scandinavian eye-catching decline in the United States
For the second time this year, the report included an assessment of immigration well-being in 117 countries, with Nordic countries showing impressive performance because of their relatively low level of demographic diversity. Finland, Denmark, Norway, Iceland and Sweden are all in the top 10, ranking 1,2,3,4,6, respectively.
It is also worth noting that the top countries and regions in the happiness index have performed well on the key factors of income, life expectancy, social security, freedom, trust, and generosity. Mike Wiggin, chief executive of (Happiness Research Institute), a Danish happiness research firm, said the five Nordic countries were prominent in creating good living conditions and were good at translating wealth into the well-being of their people.
China fell from 86 in 2018 to 93.
The United States this year has reached its lowest place since entering the list, ranking only 19th. The report shows that while the United States is getting richer on the economic, the happiness index is declining year by year, falling four places in two years. It is reported that the United States has never entered the top 10 of the list, the highest ranked 11.
Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University in the United States, noted that the long-term increase in per capita income was accompanied by several changes that had a negative impact on subjective well-being, including the deterioration of the health of most people. The degree of social trust declined, and gradually lost confidence in government.
Britain ranked 15th, up four places from 2018, but still in New Zealand (8), Canada (9), Austria (10), Australia (11), Costa Rica (12), New Zealand (8), Canada (9), Austria (10), Australia (11), Costa Rica (12), After Israel (13) and Luxembourg (14).
As for the most unhappy countries, most of the top 10 are located in southern Africa or the Middle East in Sarahar, South Sudan, Central Africa, Afghanistan, Tanzania, Luanda, Yemen, Malawi, Syria, and Botswana, respectively, in South Sudan, Central Africa, Afghanistan, Tanzania, Luanda, Yemen, Malawi, Syria, and Botswana. And Haiti in the Kalobi Sea.
The "Sustainable Development Solutions Network", a non-official organization of the United Nations, assesses the happiness of countries with indicators such as freedom, life expectancy, social support, trust and government corruption, per capita GDP. It is also the seventh annual survey since 2012.
What is the secret of Finnish happiness?
To know the secret of Finnish happiness, let's start with a subversive library.
Image Source: Tuomas Uusheimo | Helsinki Marketing
When Finland celebrated its independence for a century, it sent a great gift to its people. In the absolute prime of downtown Helsinki, nearly 100 million euros was spent on a subversive library, the caroling library.
Why is it subversive? It is clearly a library, but the book is no longer the point, here is in line with the living habits of modern people, powerful functions of the living room:
Love cool techs can play VR games and 3D printing, hands-on ability can be in carpentry or metal studio toil, play games rehearsal music that is not in the words, quietly play wool pull home can also be able to even cook.
Image Source: Tuomas Uusheimo | Helsinki Marketing
This is a fully open, free "big living room", both homeless and refugee, free to enter and exit!
You can also rent free rooms for up to 3 hours: up to 16 people, meetings and movies. This is a free office for freelancers, you can work, see customer meetings, print scans, etc., for no money.
The eulogy library, which embodies the strong sense of citizen service in Finnish public library system, is unique all over the world.
Aloof and reliable Finland
When it comes to Finland, many people instantly flash beautiful scenery, elegant and aloof painting style. Yes, the latitude is high, it's a little cold, and some Finns aren't very talkative, and it feels like they're thousands of miles away. Although the first impression, but slowly get along with the Finns, slowly experience Finland, many moments will feel warm, and quite reliable!
Photo: Julia Kivela, National Tourism Board of Finland
The American magazine Reader's Digest has organized a "honesty test" in 16 cities around the world: in each city, 12 purses containing cash, home photo, and contact information were deliberately left on their way. The results showed that residents of Helsinki, Finland's capital, were the most honest, with 11 out of 12 wallets returning to their owners.
Photo: Finland National Tourism Agency
Finland's highway safety level is higher than the EU average, ranking fifth, according to Finland's Business News. Finns also adhere to traffic rules, cars and looting are rare, even in the streets where traffic is scarce late at night, drivers will consciously stop at the red light.
The bus is very punctual. Each bus stop has three timetables: Monday to Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Every resident has a timetable for all buses to all stops in the city. In this self-discipline and safe social environment, parents are quite at ease, pupils are also their own school, their own home.
Photo: Finland National Tourism Agency
Autumn is coming, go to the forest to pick blueberries and mushrooms! Finland's forest is not a deep forest, but a place for Finns to recuperate. Many forests are near the city's residential areas. The path will be marked to prevent pedestrians from getting lost. The wilderness house, with wood in it, can make a fire for warmth.
Photo: Finland National Tourism Agency
Safe Nordic countries, such as Finland, Denmark and Sweden, often see images of strollers neatly lined outside coffee shops, in which baby sleeps sweetly, and where police may be recruited in other countries.
Picture: Sakari Piippo, Finland Promotion Board
Finland ranks first in the Global corruption rankings published by Transparency International for five years in a row. Corruption bribery, embezzlement of social wealth, such as theft and robbery, people spit on. Government officials are only allowed to collect small souvenirs of low value.
Photo: Finland National Tourism Agency
In Finland, every sum in a bank account should have a reasonable source. Society is also so transparent that no one can open anonymous accounts, and tax authorities has the right to know all accounts across the country. If you want to know the income and tax payment of Wang, you can call the Inland Revenue Department as long as you know his name, date of birth and address. The higher the income, the more taxes are paid. The balance between tax revenue and the redistribution of social wealth is that the rich are happy and the poor can live!
Photo: Helsinki Tourism Office
Finland's food safety management has established a good reputation for Finnish food in the domestic and foreign markets. Each sheep carries earrings, which is its "ID", which tracks health, accurately records, reports and preserves all information from birth, rotation, removal, illness and trading.
Finland is also a perfect place for children to live. Children's equality is second in the world, and adolescents' satisfaction with life is fourth in the world.
Photo: Finland National Tourism Agency
Finn Airlines is also one of the world's most trusted airlines, in the past 54 years has not occurred a passenger death accident, known as one of the world's 10 safest airlines. From Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Xi'an can take Finn Airlines direct to Helsinki, the flight time is only 8 hours 10 hours!
Photo: Finland National Tourism Agency
So Finland is really a reliable country. In a trust-based society, honesty and self-discipline have become a customary social ethos. "in fact, there is another person who is monitoring us, and that person is ourselves!"
Of course, happiness is hard to quantify in numbers. The Finns' reaction to being once again the happiest country in the world is as calm as ever.
But if you want to feel the details of Finns' daily happiness, go to the Finnish Tourism Authority's "Rent a Finn" event and follow the Finns for a few days in a lake cabin: walking in the cool summer forest. Picking blueberries, steaming a traditional sauna, swimming in the lake, feeling the daily life of the happiest country in the world, do you think you want it?
Image Source: MAREK SABOGAL | VISIT FINLAND
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