World Happiness Day 2026
Today is World Happiness Day, established by United Nations in 2012.
They write:
The General Assembly of the United Nations in its resolution 66/281 of 12 July 2012 proclaimed 20 March the International Day of Happiness, recognizing the relevance of happiness and well-being as universal goals and aspirations in the lives of human beings around the world and the importance of their recognition in public policy objectives. It also recognized the need for a more inclusive, equitable and balanced approach to economic growth that promotes sustainable development, poverty eradication, happiness and the well-being of all peoples
Since 2012, the World Happiness Report is published by the Wellbeing Research centre at the University of Oxford (link to this years report). This is the latest result just published showing "the happiest countries":
It´s pretty amazing that the Nordic countries are in the top year after year.
It also might be interesting to see the least happy countries in the world:
A nice visual describing Happines in relation to Population is from VisualCapitalist.com, enjoy:
Another great visual from Visual Capitalist showing the world happiness country by country:
If you are interested in happiness, see my earlier blog posts on this topic




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