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World Happiness Report 2020

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, John Helliwell, Richard Layard and Jeffrey D. Sachs


The World Happiness Report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness that ranks 156 countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be. The World Happiness Report 2020 for the first time ranks cities around the world by their subjective well-being and digs more deeply into how the social, urban and natural environments combine to affect our happiness.


20 May 2020

The World Happiness Report is a publication of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network

World Happiness Report 2020

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This External report is part of the centre's Community Wellbeing programme.

This publication comes under the following theme: Targeting policy at wellbeing, Mental health policies