World Happiness Report 2025
Lara Aknin, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, John Helliwell, Richard Layard, Jeffrey D. Sachs and Shun Wang
In this year's issue, we focus on the impact of caring and sharing on people's happiness. Like 'mercy' in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, caring is "twice-blessed" - it blesses those who give and those who receive. In this report, we investigate both of these effects: the benefits to the recipients of caring behaviour and the benefits to those who care for others.
20 March 2025
Sustainable Development Solutions Network
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