For the fourth time in a row, Finland is the world's happiest country

The World Happiness Report uses data from interviews of more than 350,000 people in 95 countries, conducted by Gallup

When governments around the world introduced coronavirus restrictions requiring people to stand two metres apart, jokes in Finland started circulating: “Why can’t we stick to the usual four metres?”

Finns embrace depictions of themselves as melancholic and reserved — a people who mastered social distancing long before the pandemic. A popular local saying goes, “Happiness will always end in tears.”

But for four consecutive years, Finland has been named the happiest country in the world by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, which publishes an annual report evaluating the happiness of people around the world.

The World Happiness Report uses data from