Visualizing Happiness Across Africa 🌍

What We're Showing

The latest country happiness scores for African countries 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

• Sierra Leone surpassed Lesotho as the unhappiest country in Africa this year. The country had the second-lowest happiness score in the world, as it struggles with widespread poverty and government corruption.
• Mauritius surpassed Libya as Africa's happiest country in 2025. The country is known to have a stable democracy, strong economy, and relatively higher quality of life.
• Africa has the lowest regional happiness score in the world at 4.4.