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Singapore ranked 34th in World Happiness Report 2018, Finland takes top position
16 March 2018
The World Happiness Report 2018, ranks 156 countries by their happiness levels, and 117 countries by the happiness of their immigrants. This year, Singapore is ranked 34th, a drop from 2017's ranking of 26th. Overall rankings of country happiness are based on the pooled results from Gallup World Poll surveys from 2015-2017, and show both change and stability. The report was produced by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network and edited by three economists, which are Sachs, the network's director and a professor at Columbia University, John F. Helliwell, a senior fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia, and Richard Layard, a director of the Well-Being Programme at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance.
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These are the top 10 happiest countries in the world
Based on a global ranking of happiness levels across 156 countries, Finland has claimed the No. 1 spot in this year's World Happiness Report. Now in its sixth year, the World Happiness Report is produced by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network. The organization, along with three economists from Columbia University, the University of British Columbia and the London School of Economics' Center for Economic Performance, created the report using data from the Gallup World Poll to reveal which countries are happy and why.
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World Happiness Report 2018, John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard and Jeffrey D. Sachs (Eds), March 2018
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