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Line 232: − − == World Happiness Report: Happiness Indexes for countries for years 2023 and 2024 == − − === World Happiness Report, Gallup poll: Happiness Index 2024 === − − In 2024, the [[United States]] hit its lowest ranking ever on a global happiness list.<ref>https://dailypoliticalnewswire.com/poll-reveals-how-unhappy-americans-were-under-biden/</ref> − <br /> − <br /> − [[File:Global happiness index 2024.png|1100px|center]] − {{Clear}} − − === World Happiness Report: World Happiness Index map of 2023 === − − According to the World Happiness Index website: − {{Cquote|World Happiness Report 2023 use data from the Gallup World Poll surveys from 2020 to 2022. They are based on answers to the main life evaluation question asked in the poll. This is called the Cantril ladder: it asks respondents to think of a ladder, with the best possible life for them being a 10 and the worst possible life being a 0. They are then asked to rate their own current lives on that 0 to 10 scale. The rankings are from nationally representative samples for the years 2020-2022. The number of people and countries surveyed varies year to year, but by and large more than 100,000 people in 130 countries participate in the Gallup World Poll each year. They are based entirely on the survey scores, using the Gallup weights to make the estimates representative. The sub-bars in the alternate version of Figure 2.1 show the estimated extent to which each of the six factors (levels of GDP, life expectancy, generosity, social support, freedom, and corruption) is estimated to contribute to making life evaluations higher in each country than in Dystopia. Dystopia is a hypothetical country with values equal to the world’s lowest national averages for each of the six factors (see FAQs: What is Dystopia?). The sub-bars have no impact on the total score reported for each country but are just a way of explaining the implications of the model estimated in Table 2.1. People often ask why some countries rank higher than others—the sub-bars (including the residuals, which show what is not explained) attempt to answer that question.<ref>[https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2023/ World Happiness Report 2023]</ref>}} − <br /> − <br /> − [[File:A color coded map of the world levels of happiness as measured by the World Happiness Index (2023).jpg|thumbnail|1300px|center|Map: World Happines Index of 2023<ref>[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_color_coded_map_of_the_world_levels_of_happiness_as_measured_by_the_World_Happiness_Index_(2023).svg A color coded map of the world levels of happiness as measured by the World Happiness Index (2023)]</ref><ref>[https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2023/ World Happiness Report 2023]</ref> ]] − {{Clear}} − − === Criticism of the World Happiness Report in terms of its methodology === − − *[https://www.thefp.com/p/the-world-happiness-report-is-a-sham The World Happiness Report Is a Sham], Free Press, 2025 − *[https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/world-happiness-report-why-we-might-be-measuring-happiness-wrong World Happiness Report: Why we might be measuring happiness wrong], Lund University, 2024 − *[https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24112787/world-happiness-report-country-rankings One big problem with how we rank countries by happiness], 2024 − *[https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/are_world_happiness_rankings_culturally_biased Are World Happiness Rankings Culturally Biased?], Greater Good Magazine, 2023 − *[https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/the-unbearable-sadness-of-being-happy The unbearable sadness of “being happy”: Biases in the World Happiness Report], Observer Research Foundation, 2023
→World Happiness Report: Happiness Indexes for countries for years 2023 and 2024
Unfortunately for hedonists, focusing on pleasure-seeking does not deliver the optimal pleasure and happiness in the long run or even in the short run and instead just delivers emptiness.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tSQPGYvE0s Clear Voices 2014 - Alister McGrath - C. S. Lewis’s Vision of the Christianity]</ref>
Unfortunately for hedonists, focusing on pleasure-seeking does not deliver the optimal pleasure and happiness in the long run or even in the short run and instead just delivers emptiness.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tSQPGYvE0s Clear Voices 2014 - Alister McGrath - C. S. Lewis’s Vision of the Christianity]</ref>
== Journal articles and happiness ==
== Journal articles and happiness ==