What makes a Nation Happy? Canada case-study
How do we become happy? It's a question that has been asked since the dawn of time and attempted to be answered by philosophers, gurus, psychologists, and scientists. Since the 1960s, happiness research has been conducted in a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including gerontology, social psychology and positive psychology, clinical and medical research, and happiness economics. More recently – by the United Nations through their World Happiness Report (WHR). Its a landmark survey of the state of global happiness that ranks 156 countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be. The report looks at six key variables to come to a happiness score: income, freedom, trust in government, healthy life expectancy, social support from family and friends, and generosity . In the World Happiness Report for the year 2020 , Nordic countries – Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland, consistently are the top performers along wi...