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Executive summary: happiness and social media
World Happiness Report 2026
2 February 2026
Why single-item measures of wellbeing are best
Nature Human Behaviour
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2025 UK Wellbeing Report
World Wellbeing Movement
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World Happiness Report 2025
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Value for Money: How to improve wellbeing and reduce misery
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World Happiness Report 2024
2024 UK Wellbeing Report
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Wellbeing: Science and Policy
Cambridge University Press
Heavy social media use appears to be contributing to the drop in wellbeing among young people.
You can’t buy happiness, but you can visit the world’s happiest countries.
Costa Rica jumps to 4th place; Nordic countries stay on top.
Last year, the U.S. ranked its lowest place ever, in 24th.
Heavy social media use has contributed to ‘worrying decline’ in wellbeing in Western countries.
Residents explain what life looks like in the countries topping the World Happiness Report.
The World Happiness Report shows it diverging from the rest of the world.
Real social connections matter.
An annual world happiness ranking explores how the use of social media influences well-being.
“It is clear that we should look ... to put the ‘social’ back into social media.”
The Finns reported an average score of 7.764 to evaluate their life satisfaction.
Finland just keeps going.
Country rankings were based on answers given by around 100,000 people in 140 countries.
“There’s a bit of a Goldilocks proposition here – not too much, not too little.”
Some young people prefer if no one used social media.
Newly-published global evidence highlights the importance of caring and sharing to happiness.
Experts are ringing alarm bells about why workplace stress is at an all-time high.
Researchers have developed our understanding of happiness among different generations.
Wellbeing: Science and Policy has been named among Behavioral Scientist’s books of 2023.
Frank Martela, a psychology researcher at Aalto University, agreed with Ms. Paasimaki’s assessm
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Finland has been named the world’s happiest country for the fifth year in a row, in an annual U
Supplementary guidance to the Green Book covering the consideration of wellbeing as part of the
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Each year, the World Happiness Report provides a comprehensive ranking of the happiest countrie
Finland has been named the happiest place in the world for a fourth year running, in an annual
Finland has once again defended its coveted title as the world's happiest country. It marks the
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The UK has fallen five places on a global list ranking countries by happiness, as it grapples w
Finland has been named the happiest country in the world for the third year in a row by the Wor
Our research shows that a programme by charity Action for Happiness can help participants adopt
Coverage of our scientific research showing the impact of the Action for Happiness course in bo
Britain has bucked the global trend of falling levels of happiness and is one of the few countr
Centre for Economic Performance, LSE
