Sri Lanka has moved up two places to be ranked 127th in the United Nations sponsored World Happiness Index.
As per the index, Sri Lanka was ranked 129th in 2021. Accordingly, Sri Lanka has moved up two places compared to last year.
Finland is the top ranked country, while Afghanistan is in the last place. Neighboring India is ranked 139th and Pakistan 121st. Nepal and Bangladesh are ranked 84th and 94th respectively.
No country in Asia is in the top 20 according to these rankings.
The latest list was completed before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The world happiness report, now in its 10th year, is based on people’s own assessment of their happiness, as well as economic and social data. It assigns a happiness score on a scale of zero to 10, based on an average of data over three years.
This year the authors also used data from social media to compare people’s emotions before and after the Covid-19 pandemic. They found “strong increases in anxiety and sadness” in 18 countries but a fall in feelings of anger.
