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World Happiness Report 2021

Lara Aknin, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, John Helliwell, Richard Layard, Jeffrey D. Sachs and Shun Wang


The World Happiness Report 2021 focuses on the effects of COVID-19 and how people all over the world have fared. Our aim was two-fold, first to focus on the effects of COVID-19 on the structure and quality of people's lives, and second to describe and evaluate how governments all over the world have dealt with the pandemic. In particular, we try to explain why some countries have done so much better than others.


21 March 2021

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

World Happiness Report 2021

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

This publication comes under the following theme: Causes and effects of wellbeing, Targeting policy at wellbeing