Bar chart presented under the title “Top Countries by Life Evaluation, 2023-2025”. Subtitle reads: “Finland remains the world’s happiest country for the ninth successive year. Costa Rica’s fourth position brings Latin America into the top five for the first time.” Bars representing the three-year average life evaluation for Finland, Iceland, Denmark, Costa Rica, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Israel, Luxembourg, and Switzerland are presented. Different colours within each bar represent how much of each country’s life evaluation score can be explained by: GDP per capita; social support; healthy life expectancy; freedom to make life choices; generosity; and perceptions of corruption. The remainder is explained by dystopia at a value of 1.16, plus a residual value. The source of the graph is the Gallup World Poll, presented in Figure 2.1 from World Happiness Report 2026, published in the chapter “International evidence on happiness and social media”, of which a full citation is provided.

🇫🇮 Finland appears to have settled into the top spot as the world’s happiest country.

🇨🇷 Meanwhile, Costa Rica’s rise to fourth place marks the first time a Latin American country has entered our top five.

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Happy International Day of Happiness! ☀️

Great to see further analysis of HBSC data by Gracia et al. The global trend in PSMU is reflected in our last national report. Between 2018 and 2022, we saw the biggest increases in problematic social media use among 11-year-old girls.

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A photo of four school children standing in a semi circle, all looking down at their smartphones.

📵 From today, anyone under 16 in Australia won’t be able to have a social media account, to protect youth wellbeing.

But the relationship between social media and subjective wellbeing has been hotly debated.

For #WHR2026 leading researchers will examine the global evidence.