Mapping Global Happiness By Country in 2025

What We’re Showing

The latest country happiness scores from the World Happiness Report 2025, an annual publication that ranks global happiness based on life evaluations, social support, freedom, GDP per capita, and other well-being indicators, using data from the Gallup World Poll and additional sources

The report averages the score from life evaluations per country over a three-year period (2022–2024 for this year’s edition) and ranks from them highest to lowest.

Read the methodology in the Data Sources tab for more information.

Key Takeaways

• Nordic countries continue to be the happiest in the world, with Finland ranking first for the eighth year in a row.
• Lesotho saw the biggest increase in their happiness score out of all countries surveyed, jumping by 0.6 points from 3.2 in 2024 to 3.8 in 2024. However, the country remains among the least happiest countries in the world.
• Costa Rica climbed to #6 from #12 last year, marking the highest ranking ever for a Latin American country​.
• Afghanistan's saw the largest score decreases, dropping by 0.4 points from 1.7 in 2023 to 1.4 in 2024–the lowest score ever recorded in the history of the report. The country has been the unhappiest country in the world since 2020.