International Day of Happiness 2021
Today is the International Day of Happiness . It is an annual event organized by the United Nations to promote the idea that feeling happy is a global human right. The theme for this year´s International Day of Happiness is " Keep Calm, Stay Wise. Be Kind " and is in response to the COVID pandemic. Learn more about this day from United Nations or from the site Happiness.com . Every year UN publish a World Happiness Report including among many things a global survey measuring subjective well-being among countries, mainly using the Gallup World Poll which measures life evaluation and positive/negative emotions . For many years the Nordic countries have been in the top in this ranking and this is also true this year. Below picture shows the top 20 countries in Ranking of Happiness 2018-2020: To learn more about happiness in the Nordic countries, you can read my short summary of the book " The little book of Lykke (Happiness) " written by Meik Wiking. From this bo