Today, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) released their annual World Happiness Report, a survey of the state of global happiness. This year, the Danes is ranked the second happiest people in the world. Can it be due to their export of the concept of hygge?!

I feel grateful for living in Sweden, but at the same time feel sad because of obvious reasons.

Norway has jumped from 4th place in 2016 to 1st place this year, followed by Denmark, Iceland and Switzerland in a tightly packed bunch. All of the top four countries rank highly on all the main factors found to support happiness: caring, freedom, generosity, honesty, health, income and good governance. […]

The data that has been collected from all the countries is then translated to an average score on a scale running from 0 to 10.

• 1. Norway (7.537)
• 2. Denmark (7.522)
• 3. Iceland (7.504)
• 4. Switzerland (7.494)
• 5. Finland (7.469)
• 6. Netherlands (7.377)
• 7. Canada (7.316)
• 8. New Zealand (7.314)
• 9. Australia (7.284)
• 10. Sweden (7.284)

And down the list are:

• 146. Yemen (3.593)
• 147. South Sudan (3.591)
• 148. Liberia (3.533)
• 149. Guinea (3.507)
• 150. Togo (3.495)
• 151. Rwanda (3.471)
• 152. Syria (3.462)
• 153. Tanzania (3.349)
• 154. Burundi (2.905)
• 155. Central African Republic (2.693)