A new global report says that people in Finland are the happiest in the world. The northern European country is leading the world in happiness for the eighth year in a row.

Finland is named the happiest country in the world for the eighth year in a row, according to the World Happiness Report 2025 published Thursday.

Other Nordic countries are also once again at the top of the happiness rankings in the annual report published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford. Besides Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Sweden remain the top four and in the same order.

Country rankings were based on answers people give when asked to rate their own lives. The study was done in partnership with the analytics firm Gallup and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

When it comes to decreasing happiness — or growing unhappiness —the United States has dropped to its lowest-ever position at 24, having previously peaked at 11th place in 2012. The report states that the number of people dining alone in the United States has increased 53% over the past two decades.

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  • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    See the thing you don’t understand is that I’m not angry I suffered for days. It’s unjust I did, but I rather like new novel experiences and being deprived like that and tortured sure was one. I hated it and it gave me strong PTSD for a few years where I would wake in the middle of the night drenched sweat, hearing a neighbours doorbell ring. That sensitive my nervous system was. For several years. Still is, to an extent. But no, I’m not trying to use my personal experience to justify anything. I’m using it as an example.

    I’m angry because they took away my faith in the Finnish justice system. It was nowhere near the first hit to my faith in it, mut it was definitely the last nail in the coffin.

    And that’s the most insidious part.

    Thats his authoritarianism begins.

    We’ve public trials, but I’ve a hidden recording of a judge forbidding me from recording my own public trial. They’re not allowed to ban that unless it’s like a severe pedophile case or something. Not over speeding or a few grams of weed.

    There’s no ways of explaining what happened than blatant disregard, nay, blatant ignorance of basic humans decency, and actual human rights — by the authorities.

    If you saw a man in the condition I was in, in like the middle of the woods somewhere and didn’t call for an ambulance, you could be charged with a crime. Yet I was “under supervision for my safety” and didn’t get a doctor. While actively bleeding for days.

    If that can happen to me, what else is going on as well?