Pakistan and Nepal are happier than India Pakistan and Nepal are more happy than India: Finland World is the happiest country of the World Hapins Index, Afghanistan below

Finland is the happiest country in the world. In this case, Finland retains the number -1 ranking in the eighth year. Welbeing Research Center, Oxford University published the World Happiness Index 2025 on World Happiness Day on March 20.

Finland as the most happy country is first placed with 7.7 points. In addition to Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Sweden tops remain in four. All these are also called Nordic countries.

In this list of 5 countries, India is now ranked 5th with 5.5 points. India was ranked 126th on the list for the last time. India is also behind in this regard, Pakistan and Nepal.

The situation in India improves in the beginning of happiness

India has brought eight places to the Happiness Index compared to last year. However, Pakistan is above India. Pakistan is ranked 109th in the list of happiness of 2025. At the same time, Nepal was also above India, it is ranked 92th.

Sri Lanka (3) and Bangladesh (3) are behind India. The rankings of these countries were based on the answer that people gave when asked to rate their lives. This research was done by Study Analytics Farm Galp and the UN Sustainable Development Solution Network.

In this list, countries like Ukraine, Mozambique, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Palestine, Congo, Uganda, Gambia and Venezuela are better than India surrounded by rankings, political and economic issues.

India was able to achieve the place at the top -100 in 2022 in recent years. There are many reasons for India deficiency in the beginning of happiness. These include discrimination, lack of social assistance, corruption and lack of generosity, which returns India to the list of happy countries.

Galp CEO says- happiness is not just from money or development

This report was published at the Welbeing Research Center at Oxford University with the partnership of the Gallp and the UN sustainable development solution network.

In this survey of 57 countries was asked how happy they were? In order to measure happiness in the society, various reasons, including health, money, freedom, liberality and relief from corruption, have been questioned and their answers have been evaluated.

Galp’s CEO John Clifton said, “Happiness is not just related to money or development. This belief, connection and knowing people will always support you. If we want a strong society and economy, what is the true meaning of us, it should be invested in each other.”

In the rankings of happy people, the United States has reached the lowest position so far. The top 20 of the ranking dominates European countries.

Israel is in eighth place despite the war with Hamas. Costa Rica and Mexico first joined the top ten of the happy countries in sixth and tenth places respectively.

The United States has reached the lowest number in this rankings. Earlier, he was in 5th place in 2002.

How to be a happiness index

There are many parameters to decide on a country’s prosperity. At this time, economic development is not only seen, but mutual confidence, social busyness, health, freedom can also be seen. People are also interrogated about their lives while preparing the report. The happiness index is prepared on the basis of the answer. In this survey, the sample size population, the country, also plays an important role. In fact, Pakistan’s population is a bit higher than the largest population in India. At the same time, India is the most populous country in the world. In such cases there was a big difference between the sample size of both countries.

Happiness index parameter