World Happiness Report 2022

Context

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the World Happiness Report, which uses global survey data to report how people evaluate their own lives in more than 150 countries worldwide. The World Happiness Report 2022 reveals a bright light in dark times. The pandemic brought not only pain and suffering but also an increase in social support and benevolence.

Content

This dataset contains the Happiness Score for 146 countries along with the factors used to explain the score.
The scores are based on individuals' own assessments of their lives, as revealed by their answers to the single-item Cantril ladder life-evaluation question. Sustainable Development Solutions Network observed data on the six variables and estimates of their associations with life evaluations to explain the observed variation of life evaluations across countries, much as epidemiologists estimate the extent to which life expectancy is affected by factors such as smoking, exercise and diet.
Before diving in, let’s briefly touch on how happiness levels are measured in this report. Some clear indicators are health and wealth, which are measured using key metrics like GDP per capita and life expectancy rates.
The report also looks at more intangible aspects by collecting survey responses from each country, to gauge things like:

• Social support
• Freedom to make life choices
• Generosity
• Perceptions of government/ business corruption
• Dystopia(1.83) : the value for Dystopia (1.83) is the predicted Cantril ladder for a hypothetical country with the world's lowest values for each of the six variables.

The data is explained in much statistical detail here

Acknowledgements

The World Happiness Report is a publication of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, powered by the Gallup World Poll data.

I did not create this data, only sourced it. The credit goes to the original Authors:

Editors: John Helliwell, Richard Layard, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Lara B. Aknin, Shun Wang; and Sharon Paculor, Production Editor

Citation: Helliwell, J. F., Layard, R., Sachs, J. D., De Neve, J.-E., Aknin, L. B., & Wang, S. (Eds.). (2022). World Happiness Report 2022. New York: Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

Inspiration

• Compare happiness score with other attributes
• EDA and Visualization
• Country ranking highest in specific attributes