Oh stop it! Another year of hearing this is going to put me in an early grave.
This is great. I’m so happy I could just *minecraft* myself.
Id bee happy if i got a free bucket
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And everyone i know are not happy, so where are all the happy people?
Just goes to show how useless these questionnaires are. I’m not sure most Finnish people actually understand what happiness is.
Palju õnne!
Of course, because all the really unhappy ones kill themselves off.
What a joke!
All the unhappy ones are just hiding so no one knows they exist.
Least miserable country on in the world would be more accurate.
I live in Finland for 4 years, I was pretty happy with my life before, now I just want to kill myself. Nice questionnaires
Im a happy man what can i say😐
I think happy translates poorly as unnecessary optimist. A more accurate description would’ve been “content”. Most Finns wouldn’t say they’re necessarily happy, but that they’re pretty content, and have possibilities and privileges most of the world doesn’t have.
I’m sick of people who will ask me “are the people there happy?”
Have to downvote this, it’s not possible, have you not seen how uncomfortable this sort of news makes us?
I’m Israeli (4th happiest country), my gf is Finnish. We’re both miserable 😂
Thanks! I hate it!
My hunch is that in Finland many people understand (and are content with the ”fact”) that one does not need much to be happy and the everyday happiness can be gotten from small things like daily walks, a brief ray of sunlight, or simply the fact of having freedom and peace (something increasingly prevalent when neighbouring country has started a war).
And maybe more importantly, knowing that should things go south, there’s the society stepping up and taking care of (much of the cost for healthcare and even everyday living if there’d be unemployment or incapability to work). And even in the worse case scenario of war, Finns have the knowhow and will to protect everything that makes Finland… Finland. Like many countries, Finland is totally unique and worth visiting, living in, and protecting. A country filled with people who experience happiness in small things, in everyday life.
And for the 6th time the stats are deluded by people in Finland not seeking help because of the caveman macho-man culture we Finns still have, and therefore being deemed the happiest country. Anyone who lives in Finland and believes it is the happiest country on earth, well they sure are blind to the rampant alcoholism and gambling problem this country has.
This is the biggest joke I’ve heard in a while. The country is crumbling to the ground with debt. Health care is in crisis, schools are in crisis etc. etc. Happiest country? I mean come on. 😂
If Finland is so dark, cold, its people depressed and unsocial, then how come it’s been the happiest county for sixth time in a row? I don’t understand. Anyone care to answer?
Hmm… what’s there to be happy about that much…? Definitely not the climate for sure… Any chance it’s just the government boasting to the world?
I am sorry for bringing the national average down. But good job.
That’s it! I’m moving 😋
This is sad.. its miserable here so how fucked up rest of the world is?
“Finland was declared the happiest country” is a meme that keeps on circulating for some reason 
>Our measurement of subjective well-being continues to rely on three main well-being indicators: life evaluations, positive emotions, and negative emotions (described in the report as positive and negative affect). Our happiness rankings are based on life evaluations, as the more stable measure of the quality of people’s lives. In *World Happiness Report 2023*, we continue to pay special attention to specific daily emotions (the components of positive and negative affect) to better track how COVID-19 has altered different aspects of life.
​
>*Life evaluations*. The Gallup World Poll, which remains the principal source of data in this report, asks respondents to evaluate their current life as a whole using the image of a ladder, with the best possible life for them as a 10 and worst possible as a 0. Each respondent provides a numerical response on this scale, referred to as the Cantril ladder. Typically, around 1,000 responses are gathered annually for each country. Weights are used to construct population-representative national averages for each year in each country. **We base our usual happiness rankings on a three-year average of these life evaluations**, since the larger sample size enables more precise estimates.
​
>*Positive emotions*. Positive affect is given by the average of individual yes or no answers about three emotions: laughter, enjoyment, and interest
​
>*Negative emotions*. Negative affect is given by the average of individual yes or no answers about three emotions: worry, sadness, and anger.
Why could that be?
😐 😐 😐
– Finns
Everything here works. Everything is clean. Every citizen lives a few minutes walk away from nearest patch of nature, big or small. Everybody gets to live free and without being harassed. Kids aren’t kidnapped. Adults aren’t kidnapped. Everybody has an equal right to a free academic curriculum all the way up to a doctorate. Every citizen gets near-free healthcare and dental care. Every citizen has 50 square kilometres of land to go hide from everybody else. Oh, and the sauna – forget about everything else.
We just have a too heavy and expensive public sector thanks to past decades. There was need for those structures in place and there was enough of work-going populace thanks to the post-wars baby boom to keep the wagon going. Now the need is gone and those work-goers are grey-haired and hunch-backed.
Every nation’s got their share of problems. Ours are what they are but they definitely do not prohibit happiness. Digging into statistics one can conjure up some mean memes but statistics aren’t real life. I feel extremely privileged to be a middle-class Finn. There might be a couple of billion people on this planet that would switch positions with me in a heartbeat, then again there might be less. Somebody enduring some severe hardships somewhere else might still consider themself “happy”. Just like I might myself, somewhere else and under less fortunate circumstances.
It’s everybody’s own business to define their own happiness. //EDIT the few sentences about the public sector
We should retire at the top
I wish I was Finnish lol
Can´t say that ive had mighty fullfilling or enjoyable life living here. always felt safe, not free but guess thats common issue.
grew weed once, felt pretty bad afterwards when cops took them. damn, was more demoralizing experience than what i expected. I went to doctor afterwards, told them i got adhd, got the meds which i didnt do much with.
maby the ingredients are something else for me.
Paskapuhetta.
testin päättäjät eivät olleet ulkona hakemas iltapalaa ku on -10 ja paskaa sataa silmiin ja vituttaa
Let me in
I love you Finland!
”Guys its a prank!”
Dutch late night show was unhappy that the Netherlands only ended up 5th, so he thought the easiest way to take the top spot was just to make you unhappier… 😉
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Oh stop it! Another year of hearing this is going to put me in an early grave.
This is great. I’m so happy I could just *minecraft* myself.
Id bee happy if i got a free bucket
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And everyone i know are not happy, so where are all the happy people?
Just goes to show how useless these questionnaires are. I’m not sure most Finnish people actually understand what happiness is.
Palju õnne!
Of course, because all the really unhappy ones kill themselves off.
What a joke!
All the unhappy ones are just hiding so no one knows they exist.
Least miserable country on in the world would be more accurate.
I live in Finland for 4 years, I was pretty happy with my life before, now I just want to kill myself. Nice questionnaires
Im a happy man what can i say😐
I think happy translates poorly as unnecessary optimist. A more accurate description would’ve been “content”. Most Finns wouldn’t say they’re necessarily happy, but that they’re pretty content, and have possibilities and privileges most of the world doesn’t have.
I’m sick of people who will ask me “are the people there happy?”
Have to downvote this, it’s not possible, have you not seen how uncomfortable this sort of news makes us?
I’m Israeli (4th happiest country), my gf is Finnish. We’re both miserable 😂
Thanks! I hate it!
My hunch is that in Finland many people understand (and are content with the ”fact”) that one does not need much to be happy and the everyday happiness can be gotten from small things like daily walks, a brief ray of sunlight, or simply the fact of having freedom and peace (something increasingly prevalent when neighbouring country has started a war).
And maybe more importantly, knowing that should things go south, there’s the society stepping up and taking care of (much of the cost for healthcare and even everyday living if there’d be unemployment or incapability to work). And even in the worse case scenario of war, Finns have the knowhow and will to protect everything that makes Finland… Finland. Like many countries, Finland is totally unique and worth visiting, living in, and protecting. A country filled with people who experience happiness in small things, in everyday life.
And for the 6th time the stats are deluded by people in Finland not seeking help because of the caveman macho-man culture we Finns still have, and therefore being deemed the happiest country. Anyone who lives in Finland and believes it is the happiest country on earth, well they sure are blind to the rampant alcoholism and gambling problem this country has.
This is the biggest joke I’ve heard in a while. The country is crumbling to the ground with debt. Health care is in crisis, schools are in crisis etc. etc. Happiest country? I mean come on. 😂
If Finland is so dark, cold, its people depressed and unsocial, then how come it’s been the happiest county for sixth time in a row? I don’t understand. Anyone care to answer?
Hmm… what’s there to be happy about that much…? Definitely not the climate for sure… Any chance it’s just the government boasting to the world?
I am sorry for bringing the national average down. But good job.
That’s it! I’m moving 😋
This is sad.. its miserable here so how fucked up rest of the world is?
“Finland was declared the happiest country” is a meme that keeps on circulating for some reason 
Callidice – Happiest Country
https://open.spotify.com/track/518hTTiwrr6FQzz9k22TXj?si=ND3-xfu8SZueZf4_hG4W-Q
Money is not our currency.
they only interview grannies who are retired and go for walks to the forest, guys calm down
It seems like half the posts here are about terrible mental health care, yet in the article it’s the one thing they highlight.
Unbelievable. Lies. Deception! I haven’t been happy in a decade. Who here is this happy?
😂😂
Congratulations 🎉 Finland! And very best wishes for all of you!!
All i see is depressed people in Finland…
For some context on how they measured this stuff which was found in the [PDF](https://happiness-report.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/WHR+23.pdf) (page 34):
>Our measurement of subjective well-being continues to rely on three main well-being indicators: life evaluations, positive emotions, and negative emotions (described in the report as positive and negative affect). Our happiness rankings are based on life evaluations, as the more stable measure of the quality of people’s lives. In *World Happiness Report 2023*, we continue to pay special attention to specific daily emotions (the components of positive and negative affect) to better track how COVID-19 has altered different aspects of life.
​
>*Life evaluations*. The Gallup World Poll, which remains the principal source of data in this report, asks respondents to evaluate their current life as a whole using the image of a ladder, with the best possible life for them as a 10 and worst possible as a 0. Each respondent provides a numerical response on this scale, referred to as the Cantril ladder. Typically, around 1,000 responses are gathered annually for each country. Weights are used to construct population-representative national averages for each year in each country. **We base our usual happiness rankings on a three-year average of these life evaluations**, since the larger sample size enables more precise estimates.
​
>*Positive emotions*. Positive affect is given by the average of individual yes or no answers about three emotions: laughter, enjoyment, and interest
​
>*Negative emotions*. Negative affect is given by the average of individual yes or no answers about three emotions: worry, sadness, and anger.
Why could that be?
😐 😐 😐
– Finns
Everything here works. Everything is clean. Every citizen lives a few minutes walk away from nearest patch of nature, big or small. Everybody gets to live free and without being harassed. Kids aren’t kidnapped. Adults aren’t kidnapped. Everybody has an equal right to a free academic curriculum all the way up to a doctorate. Every citizen gets near-free healthcare and dental care. Every citizen has 50 square kilometres of land to go hide from everybody else. Oh, and the sauna – forget about everything else.
We just have a too heavy and expensive public sector thanks to past decades. There was need for those structures in place and there was enough of work-going populace thanks to the post-wars baby boom to keep the wagon going. Now the need is gone and those work-goers are grey-haired and hunch-backed.
Every nation’s got their share of problems. Ours are what they are but they definitely do not prohibit happiness. Digging into statistics one can conjure up some mean memes but statistics aren’t real life. I feel extremely privileged to be a middle-class Finn. There might be a couple of billion people on this planet that would switch positions with me in a heartbeat, then again there might be less. Somebody enduring some severe hardships somewhere else might still consider themself “happy”. Just like I might myself, somewhere else and under less fortunate circumstances.
It’s everybody’s own business to define their own happiness. //EDIT the few sentences about the public sector
We should retire at the top
I wish I was Finnish lol
Can´t say that ive had mighty fullfilling or enjoyable life living here. always felt safe, not free but guess thats common issue.
grew weed once, felt pretty bad afterwards when cops took them. damn, was more demoralizing experience than what i expected. I went to doctor afterwards, told them i got adhd, got the meds which i didnt do much with.
maby the ingredients are something else for me.
Paskapuhetta.
testin päättäjät eivät olleet ulkona hakemas iltapalaa ku on -10 ja paskaa sataa silmiin ja vituttaa
Let me in
I love you Finland!
”Guys its a prank!”
Dutch late night show was unhappy that the Netherlands only ended up 5th, so he thought the easiest way to take the top spot was just to make you unhappier… 😉
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-ToYdbyD_M](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-ToYdbyD_M)
His message to you starts at like 1.30.
(same producer as the viral Trump 1st, Netherlands 2nd video)
How often is this survey taken?
I was in a bar for my last day in Finland this past Friday, and I’d say this winning is pretty accurate. 🖤🇫🇮