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World Happiness Report 2022: Nordic countries top the list of the happiest nations. Afghanistan, Lebanon, Zimbabwe, Rwanda and Botswana are the least happy.
The report provided two ranking - one based on the average of the survey taken by Gallup over three years starting 2018 and the other focused only on the year 2020 to understand the impact of the pandemic on subjective well-being and how factors that contribute to well-being affected the impact of the pandemic.