World Happiness Report
How people rate their own lives on a 0-10 ladder, averaged over three years of Gallup World Poll interviews. It records what residents say about their own life, not what economists infer about it.
World Happiness Report: 2011 ranked 94 of 156; 2012 ranked 111 of 156; 2014 ranked 117 of 158; 2015 ranked 118 of 157; 2016 ranked 122 of 155; 2017 ranked 133 of 156; 2018 ranked 140 of 156; 2019 ranked 144 of 153; 2020 ranked 139 of 149; 2021 ranked 136 of 146; 2022 ranked 126 of 137; 2023 ranked 126 of 143; 2024 ranked 118 of 147; 2025 ranked 116 of 147.
Coverage
137-158 countries a year, from 2011. No survey ran in 2013.
Limitations
Each figure is a three-year rolling average, so a single year's events move it slowly. The underlying Gallup World Poll microdata is proprietary and sample sizes per country are small.
Every stored edition
| Year | Rank | Field | Life evaluation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 116 | 147 | 4.536 |
| 2024 | 118 | 147 | 4.389 |
| 2023 | 126 | 143 | 4.054 |
| 2022 | 126 | 137 | 4.036 |
| 2021 | 136 | 146 | 3.777 |
| 2020 | 139 | 149 | 3.819 |
| 2019 | 144 | 153 | 3.573 |
| 2018 | 140 | 156 | 4.015 |
| 2017 | 133 | 156 | 4.19 |
| 2016 | 122 | 155 | 4.315 |
| 2015 | 118 | 157 | 4.404 |
| 2014 | 117 | 158 | 4.565 |
| 2012 | 111 | 156 | 4.772 |
| 2011 | 94 | 156 | 4.975 |
- Source
- Wellbeing Research Centre, University of Oxford — World Happiness Report 2026, data for figure 2.1
- Edition published
- 20 March 2026
- Coverage
- 137-158 countries a year, from 2011. No survey ran in 2013.