Singapore is the happiest nation in Asia for the second 12 months in a row, in accordance with the 2024 World Happiness Report launched Wednesday.

Town-state ranked 30 out of the 143 locations surveyed for the research.

Topping the checklist this 12 months is Finland, adopted intently by Denmark and Iceland.

The World Happiness Report is a joint effort from a few of the world’s main researchers and wellbeing scientists. The happiness rating on this research is supported by information from the Gallup World Ballot which measures people’ common life evaluations, taken over three years from 2021 to 2023.

The highest 10 happiness rankings in Asia:

1. Singapore
2. Taiwan
3. Japan
4. South Korea
5. Philippines
6. Vietnam
7. Thailand
8. Malaysia
9. China
10. Mongolia

Specialists additionally analyzed information in six key elements: GDP per capita, wholesome life expectancy, social assist, freedom, generosity and notion of corruption. Their analysis into these areas offered deeper perception and potential explanations for the subjective high quality of life scores folks gave.

“These elements assist to clarify the variations throughout nations, whereas the rankings themselves are based mostly solely on the solutions folks give when requested to price their very own lives,” in accordance with an announcement by the World Happiness Report.

The info gathered for the six elements got here from organizations just like the World Financial institution, the World Well being Group and the Gallup World Ballot.

“Singapore did very nicely when it comes to GDP per capita, one of many highest rating in our dataset,” Shun Wang, co-author and editor of the 2024 World Happiness Report advised CNBC Make It.

“Which means Singapore’s authorities is absolutely clear and their folks actually have a really low notion of corruption … even decrease, you understand, than Denmark or Norway,” Wang added.

Denmark and Norway ranked 2nd and seventh, respectively, on this 12 months’s report.

Moreover, Singapore “does notably nicely on producing wholesome life expectancy, so lengthy lives and wholesome lives,” in accordance with Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Director of the Wellbeing Analysis Centre at Oxford College and editor of the 2024 World Happiness Report.

Regardless of this, Singapore ranks decrease when it comes to its perceived social assist, freedom to make life decisions, and generosity.

“Singapore is punching beneath its weight,” stated De Neve. “Given all the target indicators about Singapore, you’d anticipate Singapore to be within the prime 20 of the World Happiness Report.”

“I’d like to problem the Singaporean authorities and the folks of Singapore to search out methods to leverage the extraordinary city-state that they’ve created into methods of enhancing high quality of life as folks expertise it,” De Neve stated.

CNBC reached out to the Singapore authorities for remark, however didn’t instantly hear again.

Myanmar, Cambodia, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are amongst Asia’s least glad nations, in accordance with the report.

India, the world’s most populous nation, got here in at 126th out of 143 locations surveyed.

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