Brazil is in the 36th position of the ranking, increasing by eight positions compared to last year
The United Nations (one) launched the World Happiness Report 2025which determines, based on the evaluation of each population on the quality of life, Which are the happiest countries. Some have fallen some positions, such as the United States, for example, others have obtained better positions than last year and Brazil is one of these; See under the complete list.
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The study, which is launched in Day of the happiness of the worldCelebrated on March 20, once again, he was led by the Nordic countries. This year, Finland occupies the eighth consecutive year the happiest position in the world. It’s a lot of joy!
Then we have Denmark, Iceland, Sweden AND Netherlands Forming the first 5. Latin countries entered the top 10 with Costa Rica AND Mexicoin 6th and 10th place on the list. Already the Brazil It is in 36th position, being the second country with the best place among the South American, losing only against Uruguay, which was in the 29th.
The surprise of this year is the position of the United States. The power of North America fell hard compared to previous editions and was 24th. Take a look at the full list:
How is the list formed?
According to the study, the investigation is based on an average of three years of evaluation by each population, considering six factors:
- Social support;
- Income;
- Health;
- Freedom;
- Generosity;
- Absence of corruption.
The effects of the benefits for the recipients of the behavior of care and those who take care of others have also been studied. Including, among the discoveries of this year’s report, It is that people are very pessimistic about the benevolence of others. For example, When the wallets were left on the street by the researchers, the percentage of returned wallets was much larger than it expected.
Which brings us to the second interesting data: happiness is better distributed in countries with higher levels of expected benevolence.
Source: Terra
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