Singapore ranked first among the rest in terms of an absence of corruption and healthy life expectancy and third for GDP per capita. In terms of social support, freedom, and generosity, Singapore ranked 36th, 20th, and 21st, respectively.
revealed that Singapore was the second happiest Asian nation.
Finland topped the list of 156 countries ranked in this year’s report which was conducted by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network. The Nordic country also took the top spot last year, showing high scores on well-being predictors such as GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom, generosity, and absence of corruption over the 2016-2018 period taken for the study.
According to the study, the six variables were used “to explain the variation of happiness across countries with scores based on an individual’s own assessments of their lives.”nation on the list after Taiwan in Asia. South Sudan was at the bottom of the list. The Happiness League Table is the first of its kind since 2012. “The numbers shown reflect each country’s global rank for the variable in question, with the number of countries ranked depending on the availability of data,” noted the report. Singapore ranked first among the rest in terms of an absence of corruption and healthy life expectancy and third for GDP per capita.
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