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Malaysia Ranks 55th Happiest Country In The World, Ahead Of Indonesia And China

Malaysia Ranks 55th Happiest Country In The World, Ahead Of Indonesia And China

Malaysia has been ranked 55 on the World Happiness Index (WHI) 2023 Report with a score of 6.012, ahead of Indonesia and China who ranked at 84 and 64, respectively.

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The enduring effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, coupled with the news of wars as well as the worldwide inflation made 2022 a year of global crises.

But the human resolve to be happy has been “remarkably resilient,” according to the 2022 World Happiness Report.

Malaysia has been ranked 55 on the World Happiness Index (WHI) 2023 Report with a score of 6.012, ahead of Indonesia and China who ranked at 84 and 64, respectively.

Ranking of Happiness based on a three-year-average

In 2022, Malaysia ranked 70 out of 149 countries.

While in 2021, Malaysia ranked 81 in the World Happiness Report and was seen to be behind many of its Asean neighbours.

However, beating us at this game, Singapore ranked at number 25 in terms of happiness based on the average life evaluation.

On the other hand, the report also found that the Nordic countries such as Finland, which was named the happiest country in the world, all have high ranks for both happiness and equality.

Finland occupied the top spot for the fifth year running (with a life evaluation score of 7.821), followed by Denmark (7.636) and Iceland (7.557).

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the World Happiness Report, which uses global survey data to indicate the way people perceive the country they live in and how they evaluate their own life.

The study’s measurement of subjective well-being continued to rely on the six key variables that make up the life evaluation score which were Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom to make life choices, generosity, perception of corruption as well as dystopia.

According to the report, Lithuania is the only new country in the top 20, up more than 30 places since 2017. 

Meanwhile, war-torn Afghanistan and Lebanon remain the two unhappiest countries in the survey, with average life evaluations more than five points lower (on a scale running from 0 to 10) than in the ten happiest countries.

Following the measures to study the inequality of happiness, the report found that more generally, people are happier living in countries where the happiness gap is smaller. 

Happiness gaps globally have been fairly stable, although there are growing gaps in Africa.

World Happiness Index (WHI) 2023 Report

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